Comparisons
AI headshot tools for teams, and how to judge them
No ranking and no invented facts: the products companies shortlist for team headshots, and a checklist of what to ask each one before buying.
From $39 per person, volume discounts from 5 people.
- 40 headshots per person
- About an hour from selfies to download
- Nobody on the team needs an account
Most articles with this title are ranked lists written by somebody with a stake in the order. This one is not ranked, and it contains no scores, no star ratings and no feature claims about products we do not build. What it does contain is the set of names companies commonly shortlist for team headshots, including our own, and a checklist that is genuinely useful: the questions that separate a tool built for one person buying a portrait from a tool built for an administrator rolling one out to two hundred colleagues.
Comparing
What to check before you choose.
The questions a team buyer should put to any headshot tool, and how Starkie Teams answers them. For the other tool, check their current site.
| What to check before you choose. | Starkie Teams | The other tool |
|---|---|---|
| One-time credits, no subscription | Yes | See their site |
| 40 headshots per person | Yes | See their site |
| One style enforced across the whole team | Yes | See their site |
| Teammates need no account | Yes | See their site |
| Admin approval before photos go out | Yes | See their site |
| Consent text versioned and logged per person | Yes | See their site |
| API and signed webhooks | Yes | See their site |
| Published in English and Italian | Yes | See their site |
How to read this page
We build one of the products mentioned below, so treat the framing as interested and the facts as checkable. Nothing here describes a competitor beyond what each says of itself in public: that it works in this market and offers plans aimed at teams.
As of September 2026 we have not verified anyone else’s prices, retention periods, image counts or turnaround, and we will not guess at them. Where a claim about us appears, it describes behaviour a trial with three colleagues would confirm or contradict within an hour.
Backdrops
- Studio white
- Studio greySelected
- Studio black
- Modern office
- Glass office
- City street
- Library
- Navy gradient
Outfits
- Dark suit
- Light suit
- Blazer, no tieSelected
- Fine knit
- Casual shirt
- White coat
The result
Everyone, in the same light.
Choose a backdrop and an outfit once. Every person who joins is generated inside that style, so the team page finally looks like one team rather than a collage of whoever had a photo.
Sample headshots generated by Starkie from phone selfies.
The names that come up
Five products turn up repeatedly on a company shortlist: HeadshotPro, Aragon, Dreamwave, Secta and Starkie Teams. The first four all present themselves as selling to individuals and to teams; their own sites are the place to confirm what each offers today, and the sensible habit is to note the date you read them.
Starkie Teams is the one we build, and it is aimed only at organisations: an admin sets one style, colleagues are invited by email or an open link on the company domain, each uploads selfies from a phone with no account, and forty finished pictures per person arrive, as a rule, within about an hour.
What the organiser sees
The whole run, from one screen.
Invites, consent, approval, downloads and the branded profile pictures, each a step in the same place.
- Invite peoplePaste emails or upload a CSVOpen linkCopy linkstarkie.ai/teams/join/x7q…Only @acme.com addresses24 invited
- DownloadsWhole team, one archive24 people · 960 files
- One folder per person
- Approved people only
- ReviewSophia40 headshotsAwaiting approval
ApproveRequest a retakeReasonThe tie: could we try the open collar? - Branded profile pictureACMECompany frame1024 · 512
Re-rendered when the template changes
- Before you uploadConsent text v3
Your selfies are used to generate your headshots and deleted at the end of the retention period.
I agreeAccepted · logged - Webhookmember.photos_readyDelivered
X-Starkie-Signature: t=1700000000,v1=5257a8… · Signed{ "type": "member.photos_ready", "organizationId": "org_…", "data": { "memberId": "cle…" } }
A checklist worth putting to all five
Ask how an employee gives consent and whether the version they agreed to is recorded. Ask what happens to uploaded selfies afterwards, and when. Ask whether anyone can review a set before the person receives it, and what a rejection costs.
Ask how the finished files come out in bulk and whether anything machine-readable accompanies them. Ask whether images sit behind expiring signed links or at guessable public addresses. Ask how an individual deletes their own data without going through their employer. Then ask for each answer in writing.
The difference
A shoot day, or an afternoon.
Booking a photographer
- Find a date the whole team can make
- Book a room and a photographer
- Chase the people who were travelling
- Wait for retouched files
- Start again for every new hire
With Starkie Teams
- Invite by email, CSV or one link
- Everyone uploads selfies from a phone
- Remote colleagues take part on the same terms
- 40 headshots each in about an hour
- New hires get the same style, whenever they join
Buying for one person and buying for two hundred
The difference is not photographic quality, it is administration. A single buyer needs a good portrait; an organisation needs consistency between people photographed months apart, a way to chase the eleven colleagues who have not uploaded, a defensible answer for the employee who asks what happens to their face, and a delivery format that survives contact with an HR system.
A tool can be excellent at the first job and unsuited to the second, which is why a demonstration of one striking portrait tells you almost nothing about the rollout.
Backdrops
- Studio white
- Studio greySelected
- Studio black
- Modern office
- Glass office
- City street
- Library
- Navy gradient
Outfits
- Dark suit
- Light suit
- Blazer, no tieSelected
- Fine knit
- Casual shirt
- White coat
Pricing
One credit per person. Discounts stack as you buy.
No subscription and no seats. A credit is one person’s 40 headshots, and the discount on every purchase is set by the credits you have bought so far.
- First 4 creditsList price$39.00 each
- 5+ credits20% off$31.20 each
- 25+ credits30% off$27.30 each
- 100+ credits40% off$23.40 each
- 250+ credits50% off$19.50 each
Estimate your price
- Price per person
- $31.20
- Volume discount
- 20%
- Subtotal
You're in the 20% band. 15 more people reaches 30%.
Prices in US dollars. One credit per teammate.
Trust
Read it before you buy.
The documents a procurement or IT team asks for, published rather than sent on request.
- Data Processing AgreementRoles, sub-processing, retention and deletion, in writing.
- Sub-processorsEvery third party that touches a photo, and why.
- SecurityHow photos are stored, who can open them, and for how long.
- Privacy notice for teamsWhat each teammate is told before they upload a selfie.
- GDPRRights, requests, and how to exercise them.
Frequently asked questions
Why is there no ranking?
Because we sell one of the entries, so any order we published would be marketing wearing the clothes of research. A checklist you apply yourself, with written answers and dates, produces a decision you can defend internally. A numbered list produced by an interested party does not.
What makes a headshot tool suitable for a company rather than a person?
One shared style applied to everybody automatically, invitations and reminders that do the chasing, a review step before publication, bulk delivery in a form a system can read, and per-person consent and deletion that the individual controls. Those five things are the difference between a purchase and a project.
How much should a company expect to pay per person?
We can only answer for ourselves: $39 per person, with a fifth off from five credits, 30% from twenty-five, 40% from one hundred, and half once the account reaches two hundred and fifty. Other vendors publish their own figures and we are not going to paraphrase them.
Is a photographer still the better option?
For a small group that can be in one room on one day, a good photographer produces something an AI tool does not, and we would say so. The case for this approach is a team that never assembles: distributed offices, hybrid weeks, continuous hiring, and colleagues who would otherwise be left out of the set entirely.
Give the whole team the same headshot, without the shoot day.
Free to set up: you only pay when you buy credits. There is no subscription, and you don't need a card to start.