OpenThe whole catalogue.
Every curated character entry, with its status, confidence, sources and the first point of what is and isn’t free to use. Art search across The Met and the Smithsonian, with watermarked previews.
How it works & pricing
What’s free, what you pay for, and why.
Browsing the catalogue is free. You pay only when you want more than a free answer: the complete record on a character, or print-ready files of an artwork. Every price is a one-time purchase in US dollars. There are no subscriptions.
Search credits5 for $4 · 10 for $7
Full dossier$2 per character
Artwork filesWeb $2 · Print & Original $3
01 — Free
Everything you can do without paying.
New questions, researched live.
Ask about any character or work not yet in the catalogue, and an AI research pass answers with sources. You get 2 free new searches a day, or 5 with a free account.
Anything already searched.
A subject someone has searched before opens instantly, as often as you like, and never counts toward your daily searches.
Why there’s a daily limit: each new search runs real web research, which costs OpenGlyph money. Free searches also share a site-wide daily limit; when it’s reached, they resume the next day (00:00 UTC). Images and text excerpts for a researched subject are free too, up to 5 new ones a day.
02 — Search credits
Keep searching after your free ones.
One credit runs one new search, once no free search is available. They need a free account.
5 search credits$4
10 search credits$7
- Credits never expire; they stay in your account until you use them.
- A subject that has already been searched never uses a credit.
- If a search fails before giving an answer, its credit comes back automatically.
03 — Full dossiers · $2
The complete record on one character.
The free entry gives the answer and one point on each side. The dossier gives everything behind it.
Reviewed by a person.
- Every point on what is and isn’t free to use
- Full publication history
- The succession of rights holders
- The term arithmetic and the expanded legal analysis
- The full source list
- A PDF to keep, marked with your account
A full AI investigation.
For a subject that isn’t curated, the same $2 runs a deeper research pass than the free search: every point, the rights holders, the publication history and all sources. It’s automated and not reviewed by a person, and it says so on the page.
A dossier unlocks for the account that bought it, not for a link, and is for your own use: please don’t resell or redistribute it.
04 — Artwork files
Print-ready files, with the rights record built in.
Every artwork has a free watermarked preview. Full-quality files are a one-time purchase per artwork.
WebThe 1600px file for screens, in JPEG, WebP or PNG$2
Print & OriginalPrint S, M and L at 300 DPI and the full original, in JPEG, PNG, TIFF or CMYK TIFF. Includes Web.$3
- Never upscaled: a size is offered only when the museum’s file is large enough.
- Each download is a ZIP with the image and a PROVENANCE.txt note, including a ready-to-paste credit line.
- You’re paying for prepared files, not for rights: what you can do with the image depends on the work’s own status.
05 — Paying & refunds
Simple, and in writing.
Checkout by Polar.
Payments are processed by Polar, our merchant of record, which handles card details and any sales tax. OpenGlyph never sees your card. Purchases are tied to your free account, so they’re there whenever you sign in.
Full refund when…
- within 14 days, you haven’t downloaded the dossier’s PDF or the artwork’s files;
- within 14 days, you haven’t used any credits from a pack;
- a file won’t open or download correctly, and you send us evidence.
Write to contact@theopenglyph.com. Full rules in Terms §13–15.
Informational, not legal advice
Free or paid, everything on OpenGlyph is sourced research, not a legal opinion or a guarantee. Verify against the cited sources, and ask a lawyer when the stakes justify it.