Comparison
VTON vs Genlook
Both tools take a flat product image and a customer photo and generate a try-on. The differences sit in latency, fit accuracy, and how much work it is to install.
Where Genlook is stronger
- Mobile app SDK. Genlook ships native iOS and Android SDKs. If you have a heavily-used native app and want try-on inside it, that's their lane.
- Lookbook generation. They have a separate product for generating editorial-style lookbook images at scale, useful if marketing wants 100 variants of the same shoot for paid social.
- Footwear and accessories. Genlook supports try-on for shoes, bags, and eyewear. VTON is currently apparel only.
Where VTON is stronger
- Latency. 12–18s end-to-end on our default pipeline. Genlook's published average is 24–35s, and feels closer to 40s in our independent tests on iPhone 13 Safari.
- Fit accuracy. We read your size chart and the active variant before generating, so a Medium and a Large produce visibly different results. Genlook generates a single garment fit regardless of size selection.
- Install simplicity. One
<script>tag. Genlook requires their Shopify app or a backend integration to mint signed URLs. - Free tier. 50 try-ons/month free, forever. Genlook's free tier is 14 days, then the trial ends.
- Foundation model. We use the same class of foundation model that powers ASOS's internal experiments. Genlook uses their own in-house model; the gap shows up most clearly on darker skin tones and draped fabrics where their results sometimes hallucinate folds that aren't in the source garment.
Quick comparison
| VTON | Genlook | |
|---|---|---|
| Install | One JS snippet | Shopify app or backend signing |
| Latency | 12–18s | 24–35s (claimed) / ~40s (observed) |
| Reads variant size | Yes | No — single fit per garment |
| Categories | Apparel | Apparel, footwear, eyewear, bags |
| Native mobile SDK | No | Yes (iOS + Android) |
| Free tier | 50/mo, no expiry | 14-day trial |
| Starting paid price | £49 / 1,000 try-ons | £199 / 2,000 try-ons |
Pick Genlook if
You sell across apparel, footwear, and accessories under one roof and want a single vendor for all of it. Or you have a high-traffic native iOS/Android app where the SDK matters more than the web widget.
Pick VTON if
You're apparel-led, your traffic is mostly mobile web (which it almost certainly is), latency on the product page matters, and you want try-on results that respect the size the customer actually selected. Plus you'd rather not negotiate out of a trial in two weeks.