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AI photo colorization, $5.6K in 30 days: free preview

Colorize.cc sells AI tools for turning black-and-white photos into color, restoring damaged images, and improving resolution. Its $5.6K in the last 30 days is verified through the payment provider's API by TrustMRR (Stripe), as of September 30, 2026.

What it actually sells

Colorize.cc is an AI service for colorizing and restoring black-and-white photos. Its listed services also include resolution upscaling, animation, portraits, and studio editing.

The core tools add natural color, remove scratches, stains, tears, and noise, and provide colorization at up to 4K resolution. V8 Studio lets users adjust colors and specific areas, add or remove details, and re-run results.

How it charges

The pages we read contain currency amounts, but none could be tied to the product's own pricing. The product's price could not be identified on the pages we read. No specific package, tier, or amount is presented here as Colorize.cc's product price.

Month by month

Monthly revenue as read from the payment provider by TrustMRR, in US dollars, as of September 30, 2026.

MonthRevenue (USD)
2025-10$2,725
2025-11$3,963
2025-12$4,156
2026-01$4,681
2026-02$3,972
2026-03$3,971
2026-04$3,957
2026-05$2,771
2026-06$4,292
2026-07$3,713
2026-08$5,527
2026-09$5,504

Where customers come from

The site offers a free preview without signup for adding natural color to black-and-white photos. It also provides a dashboard for processing many photos, managing results, and accessing API documentation. The visible acquisition signals are the free preview, dashboard access, and API documentation.

What stands out

Colorize.cc lists colorization, restoration, and resolution upscaling as separate services.

The site reports 3,000,000+ photos colorized, 3M+ photos processed, and 10,000+ paid customers. Its last-30-days revenue was $5,553, verified through the payment provider's API by TrustMRR (Stripe), as of 2026-09-30.

From the official site

From a single cherished portrait to an entire family archive — Colorize.cc handles them all.
High quality Crisp details, realistic colors and high sharpness at 4K resolution and beyond.

Excerpts from the official website, fetched October 1, 2026.

Where it sits in the data

Colorize.cc's $5.6K in the last 30 days is higher than 90% of the 5,602 projects with payment-verified revenue in our dataset; the median across them is $150. Within the “Design Tools” category (452 projects) it is higher than 97% (category median $118). Snapshot: 2026-09-02 to 2026-09-30. The dataset only covers founders who chose to publish their numbers, so it leans toward businesses that work; use it for scale, not as an average.

Currency

All figures are in US dollars as published. A rough yuan or euro conversion is not applied here because prices, taxes and acquisition costs differ by country.

Could you build something like this?

My view: demand would come from people restoring family, genealogy, memorial, historical, museum, and studio photographs. The buyer is the person or organization with damaged, historical, or black-and-white images that need color, restoration, or higher resolution.

My view: distribution would have to come from a free preview, search, referrals, or partnerships with relevant communities. Building the product would require handling image uploads, editing results, API access, payment collection, privacy, and support. Regulation, competition, and the support load would make this more than a simple image filter.

Verdict: Needs real work.

One thing to take from it

The clearest takeaway is to pair a narrow visual transformation with controls for refining the output. Colorize.cc combines colorization, restoration, resolution upscaling, an interactive editor, a free preview, dashboard access, and API documentation in one product.

Sources

  1. Colorize.cc official website, fetched October 1, 2026
  2. Colorize.cc pricing page, fetched October 1, 2026
  3. TrustMRR: revenue verified through the payment provider's API by TrustMRR (Stripe), as of September 30, 2026

Revenue, team and start-cost figures are what the founder reported at the interview date, not current figures and not a prediction of what you will earn. Product and pricing facts come from the business's own website as checked on 30 September 2026. Method & sources · Disclosure

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