What are your current listing photos actually costing you?
Slide in what you pay per vehicle and how long you wait for photos today — the total is your own math, not ours.
Service fee — or what the staff hours are worth
Your numbers, your math — nothing invented.
Photos cost you about
$25,200 / yr
$2,100 a month, before a single ad runs.
While inventory waits
180 selling days
lost to the photo queue every month. VehiclePhoto posts the same day.
Free to start. Questions?
What it does
Enter three numbers you already know — how many vehicles you list a month, what you currently pay per vehicle for photos (a service fee, or what staff time is worth), and how many days pass between the shoot and the listing going live. This tool multiplies those out into what your current process costs you a year, and how many vehicle-days of inventory sit unlisted every month waiting on photos. Every number on the results side is arithmetic on what you typed in — nothing is estimated or invented on our end.
Who it’s for
A dealer who has never actually added up what a photography service, or the staff hours spent wrangling photos, costs across a whole month or year. Anyone comparing what they pay today against a different way of getting listing photos done.
When you need it
Before you decide whether a new photo process is worth switching to — the honest starting point is knowing what the current one costs, in dollars and in lost selling days, not just in the annoyance of managing it.
What to watch for
‘What photos cost today’ is rarely just a per-photo service fee. Include the staff time spent scheduling a shoot, waiting on a photographer, or retaking a photo that came back blurry — those hours have a real dollar value even when no invoice gets sent for them.
Questions
Photo Cost Calculator, answered.
Where do these numbers come from?
Only from what you type in. This tool does the multiplication — vehicles per month × cost per vehicle, and vehicles per month × days to list — it never adds a hidden number or an industry-average estimate on top.
Does this tell me what VehiclePhoto costs?
No — this calculator is about what your current process costs you today. Our pricing page has our actual plan pricing, separately.
What should I count as 'cost per vehicle' if I don't pay a photo service?
Whatever the staff time is worth — hours spent scheduling, shooting, waiting on edits, or retaking bad photos, multiplied by an hourly rate. It's a real cost even without an invoice.
Why does 'days to listing live' matter as much as the dollar cost?
Because a vehicle sitting unlisted while it waits on photos isn't earning you anything — it's inventory cost with no offsetting activity. This calculator turns that wait into a number, vehicle-days per month, so it's not just an abstract annoyance.
This tool does one photo. VehiclePhoto does your whole listing, automatically.
Upload the photos you already have and get every one of them cleaned, branded and listing-ready — no dragging boxes one photo at a time.