Pay for the plugin. Not for every image.
AltGenie is licensed annually. The AI itself is billed by your own provider, at their rates — which for most sites lands somewhere between nothing and a few dollars.
Free
Try it, or run a small site indefinitely
$0
forever
AI billed by your provider. Gemini's free tier usually covers a small site entirely.
Request the free build- Bring your own OpenAI, Gemini or Google Vision key
- Auto-generate on upload
- Bulk generation with pause and resume
- Accessibility scanner and coverage score
- Version history and one-click rollback
- Demo Mode — no key needed
- Quality scoring and review queue
- Page-builder sync and WooCommerce products
- 68 languages
Pro
One site, everything unlocked
$49
/ year · 1 site
AI billed by your provider — roughly $4 per 10,000 images on Gemini. Never to us.
Buy Pro- Everything in Free
- Image SEO suite — schema.org data and image sitemap
- Open Graph and Twitter image tags
- Front-end repair of missing alt attributes
- Alt, title and description in one call
- EXIF and IPTC photo context
- Scheduled automatic scans
- White-label client reports with your name and logo
- Multisite network-wide provider settings
- WP-CLI commands for very large libraries
- Automatic plugin updates
- Email support
Agency
Every client site you build or maintain
$149
/ year · unlimited sites
One provider key can serve every client, still billed at cost.
Buy Agency- Everything in Pro, on every site you run
- Unlimited site activations
- One licence across your whole client portfolio
- WCAG 2.1 and European Accessibility Act statement
- Priority email support
Every row, checked.
The tiers above summarise. This is the full list, and each line was verified against what the plugin actually enforces rather than what would be nice to claim.
| Feature | Free | Pro | Agency |
|---|---|---|---|
| Generation | |||
| Alt text generations | 50 / month | Unlimited | Unlimited |
| Bring your own API keyOpenAI, Gemini or Google Vision — billed by them, at their rate | |||
| Automatic generation on upload | |||
| Bulk run with pause and resume | |||
| Demo Mode, no key required | |||
| Output languages | 68 | 68 | 68 |
| Alt, title and description in one call | |||
| EXIF and IPTC photo context | |||
| Image SEO | |||
| schema.org ImageObject data | |||
| Image XML sitemap | |||
| Open Graph and Twitter image alt | |||
| Front-end repair of missing alt attributesFills gaps in rendered theme and page-builder HTML | |||
| Image licensing metadata | |||
| Workflow | |||
| Version history and rollback | |||
| Accessibility scanner and coverage score | |||
| Quality scoring and review queue | |||
| Page-builder sync | |||
| WooCommerce product images | |||
| Multisite network-wide settings | |||
| WP-CLI commands | |||
| Scheduled automatic scans | |||
| Agency | |||
| Sites coveredFree has no licence to activate, so no site limit — the 50/month cap applies per site | Unlimited | 1 | Unlimited |
| White-label client reports | |||
| WCAG 2.1 and EAA statement | |||
| Automatic plugin updates | |||
| Email support | Priority | ||
An agency with 40 client sites.
Five thousand images each — 200,000 in total. Here is the whole first-year bill, both ways.
Estimates, not quotes. Credit pricing at 2¢ per image; AI at Gemini list rate. Provider rates change.
Where AltGenie wins, and where it doesn't.
Hosted tools are genuinely easier to start with. Here is the trade, stated plainly.
| Typical hosted tool | AltGenie | |
|---|---|---|
| Cost per image | 2–5¢ | ~0.04¢ at cost |
| Setup | Sign up and go | Create one API key first |
| Cost as the library grows | Grows with every image | Flat annual licence |
| Localhost and staging | Needs a public image URL | Reads from disk — works |
| WooCommerce context | Product name | SKU, brand, attributes, gallery slot |
| Choice of AI model | Whatever they picked | Yours, switchable |
| Track record | Years of reviews | New — judge it on the trial |
Billing & licensing FAQ
Pro and Agency licenses are sold through LemonSqueezy-hosted checkout. You can pay by card and manage your subscription from the LemonSqueezy customer portal.
Both unlock the same features — white-label client reports, multisite settings, WP-CLI, scheduled scans. The difference is site count: Pro is a single-site license, Agency covers unlimited sites under one key, plus priority support.
Yes. The free tier on WordPress.org gives you 50 generations per month with your own API key and never expires. Demo Mode needs no key at all.
No. With BYOK you pay your AI provider (OpenAI, Google, etc.) directly at their real price. AltGenie does not charge per generation or sell hosted credits.
Yes — refunds follow the LemonSqueezy standard refund window. See our Refund Policy for details.