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StagingLens vs Fotello

Fotello is a full editing and delivery platform for real estate media businesses, priced per listing, with staging as one feature. StagingLens is a desktop app that focuses on staging, for a flat fee plus your own OpenAI usage.

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Feature	StagingLens	Fotello
What it is	A desktop app for virtual staging, with Exterior Sunset and local edits	An online platform for AI photo editing, twilight, staging, video, order forms, agent portals and property websites
Price	$5/month or $50/year for Founding Members who start by December 31, 2026 (30 places per plan), then $9/month or $90/year. OpenAI bills image generation to your own account.	A free plan at $0 per listing. Essential at $16 and Ultimate at $18 per listing, shown billed monthly at 75 listings ($1,200 or $1,350 per month). Partner is custom priced.
Staging	As many photos as you like on one plan. OpenAI bills each image.	2 staging creations per listing on Ultimate and 4 on Partner. Additional staging is listed at $1 per creation.
A 15-photo listing	Your plan fee, plus OpenAI's charge for at least 15 image requests	About $31 on Ultimate at the 75-listing setting, by our math: $18 plus 13 additional creations at $1
Multi-angle	Beta: up to four views of one room, on any plan	Listed on the Partner plan, at $2 per creation
Twilight	Exterior Sunset, billed as an OpenAI image request	2 creations per listing on Ultimate and 4 on Partner. Additional twilights are listed at $1 per creation.
Photo editing	No. StagingLens stages photos you've already edited.	Yes, with the number of photos per listing depending on the plan
Revisions	Each retry, revision or local edit is a separate OpenAI image charge	Unlimited human revisions listed on paid plans, with its in-house team revising within 6 hours
Delivery	JPG export and a Lightroom Classic plug-in. You deliver with your own tools.	Order forms, media delivery, agent portals and property websites
What you need	Windows 11 or an Apple Silicon Mac, and an OpenAI API account with billing set up	A Fotello account

Fotello details checked on November 2, 2026 at fotello.co/pricing and may change. Other volumes are priced differently. Fotello is a separate company and isn't affiliated with StagingLens.

Which one fits

Fotello is the better choice if

You want one platform for editing, staging, twilight, ordering and delivery.
You shoot enough listings each month for per-listing plans to make sense.
You want human revisions included.
You don't want to install software or set up an OpenAI account.

StagingLens is the better choice if

You already have an editing and delivery workflow and only need staging.
You want a flat fee that doesn't change with the number of listings you shoot.
You often stage more rooms per listing than a plan's included creations.
You work in Lightroom Classic and want approved images back in your catalog.
You want to control each photo yourself, including your own written instructions.

What you pay with StagingLens: two bills

StagingLens. Founding Members who start by December 31, 2026 pay $5/month or $50/year while subscribed, limited to 30 members per plan. After that, new subscriptions are $9/month or $90/year. The fee stays the same however many photos you stage.

OpenAI. OpenAI bills each image request to your own OpenAI account at its rates, with no markup from us. Each staged photo is at least one request, and every retry, revision, additional view or local edit adds another. ChatGPT subscriptions, including Plus and Pro, don't include API credits.

The staging rules are designed to keep the architecture as photographed, but AI can still change details, so review every image against the original before you approve it. The Help Center covers setup, and system requirements are on the homepage.