I am a real estate photographer — can I resell AI staging to my agents?
Yes. Every paid Archome plan carries a commercial licence, so you can bill your agents for the staged images. Production cost is roughly $0.87 per Ultra image on the $29 plan; photographers commonly bill agents $25-$50 per staged photo.
This is the most common professional use of the tool. You already shoot the listing; staging is a second line item you can add without buying furniture, hiring an editor or waiting on a turnaround queue. The commercial licence on any paid plan covers delivering the images to your client and your client publishing them.
The arithmetic is the whole argument. On the $29 plan you get 1,000 credits; an Ultra-quality staged image is 30 credits, so about 33 images a month at roughly $0.87 each. Outsourced human editing runs $16-$37 per photo depending on vendor and volume. If you bill $30 per staged photo — a common market rate — the margin per image is the difference between $0.87 and whatever you charge, and it stays yours.
Practical notes for a shoot: credits are shared across every tool, so the same balance covers staging the empty living room, removing the seller's clutter from the bedroom, refreshing a tired facade and rendering the brochure floor plan. Nothing is watermarked on a paid plan, and there is no Archome branding on the file you deliver.
One professional obligation stays with you: label the staged images as virtually staged when you hand them over, and keep the originals. Your agent needs both to stay compliant with their MLS.
Try it on your own project
100 free credits to start, no credit card. You will need an image to start from — a plan, sketch, photo or viewport capture.