Is AutoCropper Free, and What Do the Paid Plans Add?

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AutoCropper has a free tier that covers light use: the site states you get 5 scans per day with no signup and nothing to install, and you can process images in your browser. That is enough to test the tool on a few album pages or card sheets. For anything beyond occasional use, AutoCropper links to a separate Pricing page, but the site does not publish the plan details, limits, or prices in the material available here — so the only reliable way to compare paid options is to open that page directly.

What the free tier actually gives you

The free offer is defined by three things on the site:

  • 5 scans per day. A "scan" is one uploaded page, not one photo. Since the tool splits a page into multiple files, a single scan can produce several cropped photos.
  • No signup required. You can drag and drop a file and see results without creating an account.
  • Browser-based processing. There is nothing to install.

The site also offers a sample scan you can run through the live demo before uploading your own files, which is a low-risk way to check whether detection handles your material well.

What counts against your 5 scans

Because the limit is per scan rather than per output image, the free tier stretches further than it first appears. One scanned album page with four photos uses one scan and returns four separate files. If your work is a handful of pages at a time, the daily cap is unlikely to bind. If you are digitizing a box of loose photos or a binder of trading cards, you will hit the limit quickly and need to either spread the work across days or look at the paid option.

What the paid plans add

The site's navigation includes a Pricing link, which confirms a paid tier exists. However, the available page content does not list plan names, prices, scan limits, batch sizes, or any quality differences between free and paid use. Two things follow from that:

  • Do not assume the paid plans differ only in volume. The site markets batch splitting and full-resolution export as core features, and the free tier already describes full-resolution output. Whether paid plans add higher limits, larger batches, or other capabilities is not stated in the material here.
  • Check the Pricing page before committing to a workflow. If your project depends on processing many pages in one sitting, confirm the paid limits there rather than planning around the free cap.

How to decide

Your situation Reasonable starting point
Testing whether detection works on your scans Free tier, using the sample scan first
A few pages a week, or occasional album pages Free tier is likely sufficient
A large backlog (photo piles, full card binders) Check the Pricing page for volume limits before starting
Need to know exact cost or plan features Open the Pricing page — not covered in the available site content

A practical approach: run one or two of your own pages through the free tier first. If the numbered detection boxes land correctly on your photos and the exported files meet your quality needs, the free tier answers the question for light use. Only then does the paid tier become a question of volume — and that answer lives on the Pricing page.