Booth.ai Review: What the AI Product Photographer Did, What It Cost, and Why It Shut Down

Verdict up front: you can no longer buy Booth.ai

Booth.ai is defunct. As of October 20, 2026, both booth.ai and www.booth.ai return an HTTP 302 redirect to a sale listing for the domain on the Atom marketplace. There is no app to log into, no plan to buy and no trial to start.

If you landed here looking for an AI tool to put your products into new scenes or onto models, skip to the alternatives section. If you used Booth and want to know what happened, or you are judging AI photo vendors and want to learn from one that disappeared, read on.

What Booth.ai was

Booth AI was a Y Combinator Winter 2023 company that described itself as a "Generative AI Photographer for E-Commerce". Its YC profile lists it as founded in 2022, based in San Francisco, with a team of three. The two founders named on that profile are Nick Locascio, "previously Director of Engineering at Standard AI" and an MIT 2016 graduate, and Ian Baldwin, who has a "PhD from Oxford, and has fielded technology at Zoox and NASA."

The 2023 homepage summed up the pitch in three steps: "Upload reference photos of your product", "Submit a text prompt describing your vision", and "Start receiving images in seconds". The output was meant to replace a studio shoot: the same product, placed in a new setting or worn by a model.

According to its help centre, Booth supported three product categories: "furniture, clothing, and packaged goods." The workflows it named were Scene Change, Human Model Swap, Mannequin to Model and Shoe on Model. Putting AI models into flat-lay garment photos was listed as "not yet been launched", and it never was.

How it worked

The help centre described the flow as: "Upload an image of your product, select a workflow based on your product and image requirements, and provide a description of the photo that you would like to produce. Hit the generate button and your images will be generated in seconds!"

Prompts were assembled from image chips for the model and the garment plus free text, with fields for position, metadata and a negative prompt. Images that included an AI-generated person could be run through Face Fixing, which the help centre described as "offered as a post-processing step for images in which AI-generated human models appear." That cost 5 credits per image.

New accounts came pre-loaded with sample products and prompts so you could try the workflows, but "a subscription is required to upload your own products." The 2023 homepage and the terms also offered a 7-day free trial to new users.

There was no self-serve API. The help centre said: "Yes, we offer custom APIs. Please contact our team about custom solutions." For a shop that wanted to push a catalogue through automatically, that meant a sales conversation first.

Pricing: per image, by volume, with credits that expired

Booth's help centre (last edited February 15, 2024) priced images in volume tiers:

• Tier 1: first 0-50 images at $25 per image
• Tier 2: the next 50-5,000 images at $5 per image
• Tier 3: more than 5,000 images at $1 per image
• Enterprise and bulk: contact sales

In the app, purchases turned into a monthly pack of credits. One account screenshot in the help centre shows "0 / 850 credits used, 0.00% of monthly pack". Two rules shaped how far those credits went:

• "Credits are valid for one month from your purchase date." Anything you did not use that month was lost.
• "You are only charged for the images that you download." Generating and discarding cost nothing, which helped given how many AI shots miss.

Extras were charged on top: 5 credits for Fix Faces, 5 credits for 4K resolution, and an "additional 5 credits" to download a PSD instead of a PNG. Booth also ran 30%-off codes on its homepage, NRF30 in January 2023 and NOTABOT30 in August 2023.

Resolution and file formats

Booth's own pages disagreed on resolution. The January 2023 homepage FAQ said "We provide high-resolution (4k) images". The later help centre said "The default image size is 2k", with 4K as an option you had to choose before generating: "You cannot upscale images after they have been generated".

You could upload jpg, png or webp reference photos, and download results as png, or as psd for the extra 5 credits. A layered PSD was the more useful option for anyone who planned to retouch the output.

Refunds, licence and your data

This is the part of Booth's history most worth reading if you are choosing any AI photo vendor today.

Refunds: a promise and a contradiction

The January 2023 homepage FAQ promised "a 30-day money-back guarantee". The terms, last updated January 9, 2023, said the opposite: "All purchases are non-refundable." By the August 2023 snapshot of the homepage, the guarantee line was gone. Cancelling stopped the next charge, but "Your cancellation will take effect at the end of the current paid term."

Licence: you kept ownership, Booth got broad rights

The terms said "We do not assert any ownership over your Contributions. You retain full ownership of all of your Contributions". In the same section, though, users granted Booth "an unrestricted, unlimited, irrevocable, perpetual, non-exclusive, transferable, royalty-free, fully-paid, worldwide right, and license" to host, use, copy, reproduce, disclose, "sell, resell" and prepare derivative works of those contributions "for any purpose, commercial, advertising, or otherwise".

The terms had no clause that specifically covered who owned the generated images or whether you could use them commercially. Neither the terms nor the privacy policy mentioned training machine-learning models on uploads. That does not mean training was allowed or forbidden. The documents simply did not address it.

Data retention and deletion

The privacy policy said no purpose would require keeping personal information "for longer than seventy two (72) months past the termination of the user's account." Accounts could be deleted from settings: "select your name and then select the Delete button in red". The policy named the operator as "Fits AI, Inc", while the 2024 site footer read "Booth AI, Inc."

Nothing published by Booth explains what happened to customer images or account data after the shutdown. If you were a customer and did not export your images before August 2024, there is no documented way to get them back.

What happened: pivot, DoorDash and shutdown

Archived copies of booth.ai give a clear timeline:

• January 2024: www.booth.ai is still the photo product, titled "Create pro quality product photography with AI".
• March 2024: www.booth.ai becomes "The No-Code AI Workflow builder for Enterprise". The photo product moves to photo.booth.ai.
• July 20, 2024: the homepage banner reads "Booth.ai joins DoorDash", linking to a blog post.
• July 24, 2024: the banner changes to "Booth.ai shutting down August 2nd". The footer reads "Copyright © 2024 Booth AI, Inc.", so the date is August 2, 2024.
• November 2024: the bare domain redirects to a domain broker's inquiry page.
• January 2025: last capture of the old site, still showing the shutdown banner.
• April 2025 onwards: the domain redirects to a sale listing on Atom, which is where it still points in October 2026.

The text of the "joins DoorDash" blog post could not be recovered, and Y Combinator only lists the company status as "Acquired". We could not confirm whether DoorDash bought the company, its technology, or hired the team, so we do not say which.

Startups.rip, a secondary source we could not verify, also names a third co-founder, a $500K seed round and a cease-of-service date of August 5, 2024. Booth's own banner said August 2.

What to use instead

Booth's core jobs, putting a product into a new scene and putting clothing onto a model, are now covered by several active tools. Prices below were checked on October 20, 2026.

Pebblely

Pebblely focuses on product scenes. Its plans are Lite at US$9 per month for 30 images, Basic at US$19 per month for 200 images, and Pro at US$39 per month for 500 images, with "2+ months free" on yearly billing. It says "You can cancel your subscription anytime in the app." Compared with Booth's $25 per image for the first 50, the entry cost is far lower.

Flair AI

Flair AI has a Free plan at $0 with one custom model and 5 generated images, then Pro at $8, Pro+ at $26 and Scale from $38 per month. Its pricing page has an annual-discount toggle, so those figures may be the annual-billing rate. Our Flair AI review covers its custom product models and fashion tools in detail.

Photoroom

Photoroom covers background removal, AI backgrounds and batch editing across Pro, Max, Ultra and Enterprise plans. Its prices load in the browser and change often, so see our Photoroom review for the current breakdown rather than a figure we could not confirm.

Lessons for choosing an AI photo vendor

1. Export as you go. Booth's shutdown notice gave users about two weeks, and nothing documents what happened to stored images afterwards.
2. Read the refund clause in the terms, not the marketing FAQ. Booth's homepage promised a money-back guarantee while its terms said all purchases were non-refundable.
3. Read the licence over your uploads. "Perpetual, irrevocable, transferable" and "sell, resell" are wide rights to hand over for product photos.
4. Check whether the terms say who owns the generated output. Booth's did not.
5. Watch for credits that expire. One-month credits punish irregular use.
6. Be wary when a product's site changes what it sells. Booth's homepage became a no-code AI workflow builder five months before the photo product shut.

Booth.ai was an early, credible attempt at AI product photography from a well-qualified team, and its per-image pricing that only charged for downloads was customer-friendly in one respect. But it was expensive at low volume, its terms took broad rights, and it is gone. Choose one of the active tools above, and keep your own copies of everything you generate.

Frequently asked questions

Is Booth.ai still available?

No. Booth.ai shut down on August 2, 2024, and booth.ai now redirects to a listing offering the domain for sale. There is no way to sign up, log in or buy credits.

How much did Booth.ai cost?

Booth charged per downloaded image by volume: $25 each for the first 50, $5 each from 50 to 5,000, and $1 each beyond 5,000, with enterprise pricing on request. Credits expired one month after purchase, and extras such as 4K, face fixing and PSD downloads cost 5 credits each.

Did Booth.ai offer refunds?

Its terms said "All purchases are non-refundable." The January 2023 homepage promised a 30-day money-back guarantee, but that line was removed by August 2023 and the terms, dated January 9, 2023, never matched it.

Did DoorDash buy Booth.ai?

Booth announced "Booth.ai joins DoorDash" in July 2024, and Y Combinator lists the company as acquired. The announcement text was not recoverable, so whether DoorDash bought the company, the technology or hired the team is not confirmed.

Did Booth.ai shut down in May 2025 without notice?

No. It posted a "joins DoorDash" banner on July 20, 2024 and a "shutting down August 2nd" banner from July 24, 2024. The spring 2025 date refers to the domain being put up for sale.

Can I recover images I made with Booth.ai?

There is no documented way. Booth published nothing about customer images or data after the shutdown, and its privacy policy only said personal information would not be kept longer than 72 months after an account was closed.

What is the best alternative to Booth.ai?

For product scenes on a budget, Pebblely starts at US$9 per month for 30 images. Flair AI has a free plan with 5 images and paid plans from $8 per month, and Photoroom is strong for backgrounds and batch editing.

Key takeaways

• Booth.ai, an AI product photographer from YC Winter 2023, shut down on August 2, 2024 after announcing it was joining DoorDash.
• It priced images at $25, $5 or $1 each depending on volume, charged only for downloads, and let credits expire after one month.
• Its terms said all purchases were non-refundable and gave Booth a perpetual, transferable licence over uploads.
• Claims that it closed in May 2025 without notice, or cost £2.50 per image or $24.99 a month, are not supported by any Booth.ai source.
• Pebblely, Flair AI and Photoroom cover the same jobs today at far lower entry prices.