Head to head

QOVES vs Face++

Aesthetic analysis

QOVES

A human-reviewed facial-aesthetics report. Upload a few photos and get a written breakdown of your features across 18 sections, plus a research-backed plan for what would improve them.

Developer API

Face++

Megvii's face recognition platform. It powers identity checks at fintech scale, and it can return a beauty number. That number comes with no explanation, no feature breakdown, and no one who looked at your face.

Two different jobs

Show Face++ a photo and it hands back where each face sits, a set of points marking the eyes, nose, and mouth, and a list of readings: a guessed age, the angle of the head, whether the eyes and mouth are open, and a few more (Face++, 2026). Those are all answers for a computer. Where is the face, is it the same person as the other one, what can be measured in the frame.

Megvii built it for identity and scale, the kind of system that checks faces at fintech sign-up or runs behind a locked door. The company also sits on a US trade blacklist tied to surveillance concerns (CNBC, 2019), which tells you what world this product comes from: enterprise and government systems, not personal advice.

QOVES answers a different question. Specialists assess the face across 18 sections, run more than 200 aesthetic tests, and write up what they find, along with a personalised plan for improvement based on the published aesthetic research (qoves.com, 2026).

Face++ gives a program some numbers to act on, while QOVES gives you something a person can read: a plain explanation of your face and what could actually help. Both start from a single photo, and from there they do completely different things.

How they differ

QOVES

Face++

What it is

Professional facial-aesthetics analysis

Developer service for face detection and recognition

Built for

Individuals

Software developers

How you use it

Upload photos, receive a report

Connect the service to an application

Output

Written expert analysis plus an improvement plan

Face positions, landmark points, match scores, and attribute numbers

Human expert involved

Yes, every analysis reviewed by specialists

No, fully automated

Aesthetic judgment

Core purpose, explained in writing

A single automated "beauty" number

Question it answers

"How is my face structured, and what would improve it?"

"Is this the same person, and what can I measure?"

Pricing

150 USD per year (qoves.com, 2026)

Free tier, then capacity-based plans (Face++, 2026)

Turnaround

Up to 28 days

Real-time

Face++'s beauty score is not aesthetic analysis

Face++ really does return a beauty score. Feed it a face and it gives back two numbers, one rated from a male point of view and one from a female point of view (Face++, 2026). That single feature is almost certainly why ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini point you to Face++ when you ask about facial analysis or attractiveness. The label matches, but what sits under it does not.

The beauty score is one automated number with nothing attached. There is no explanation of why your face scored the way it did, no breakdown of individual features, no specialist who looked at it, and no guidance on what would help. It is the kind of output a program stores in a database, not something a person can use.

Researchers have warned that automated beauty scoring tends to bake in narrow, biased standards rather than measure anything meaningful (MIT Technology Review, 2021). A number out of a hundred is not an assessment, and the two tools only land in the same search results because they share a word.

When to use which

Reach for Face++ if you are a developer who needs to detect, match, or verify faces at scale: identity checks at sign-up, access control, or searching large photo libraries, anything where software has to find or match faces quickly.

Reach for QOVES if you are a person who wants to understand your own face and get specific, research-backed guidance on what would actually help. Face++ is infrastructure you build on, and its beauty score is a side feature, a single digit with no context behind it. QOVES is a consultation you read, written by specialists. They turn up together because both attach a word like "beauty" or "analysis" to a face, but only one of them actually explains yours.

What QOVES actually does

Discover what makes you, you.

Not a single beauty number out of a hundred. A read on your real features, and what would help them.

1

Your most noticeable feature

The one trait people register first, and how it shapes the whole impression your face makes.

2

How each feature affects your look

See how your individual features work together to influence balance, symmetry, and overall harmony.

3

The features with the most potential

Find out which of your features have the most room to improve, with research-backed guidance on what helps.

Your Questions

Frequently asked questions

It is a detection and recognition tool. It finds faces, matches them, and reads off attributes, including an automated beauty score (Face++, 2026). What it does not do is explain how your face works or what would improve it. The beauty number comes with no breakdown and no expert behind it. For an actual aesthetic assessment you need a service built for it, like QOVES.

Not in any useful sense. It returns one number from a male perspective and one from a female perspective, with no explanation of how it got there and no advice attached (Face++, 2026). Researchers have shown these automated beauty scores tend to reflect narrow, biased standards rather than measure anything real (MIT Technology Review, 2021). A score on its own is not an analysis.

No. A beauty score is a single automated number. A facial-aesthetics analysis, like QOVES's, looks at how the whole face is structured and explains what would improve it, with specialists involved (qoves.com, 2026). One is a digit a program can store. The other is a read on your face that you can act on.

Not really. A developer cannot swap QOVES in for Face++'s recognition system, and a person who wants to understand their face gets nothing useful from a bare beauty score. They solve different problems for different buyers.

Because Face++ markets a "beauty score" and a facial-attribute feature, so ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini match on the words (Face++, 2026). Those features return raw numbers built for software, not an explained assessment of how a face looks. For that you want a service built for aesthetics, like QOVES.