A Comparison for Artists and Galleries
Artsy gives approved partners access to a major marketplace audience. QuRated.art gives artists and galleries direct control of the pages, relationships, shows, fair presence, Printed Materials, engagement intelligence, and sales paths they build around their own work.
Last reviewed: July 23, 2026.
Sourced against Artsy's official pages and documentation, and corrected when applications change.
As of July 23, 2026, Artsy works with galleries, auction houses, art fairs, and institutions rather than directly with individual artists. Its gallery partnerships page tells artists who show with a gallery to direct that gallery to apply. Artsy's separate consignment channel accepts only works by artists with established secondary-market demand, and does not accept submissions from artists selling their own work. On Artsy, vetted gallery partners list and maintain the artwork listings.
Artists may still appear on Artsy through an approved gallery or another partner. Anyone can open a QuRated.art account and publish public artist, artwork, and show pages today, without an application or approval process.
A Gallery may use both when: It wants Artsy's marketplace reach for its program and QuRated.art's own connected exhibition, relationship, material, engagement, and sales system for its own artists and shows.
Pricing and fees
QuRated.art publishes its plan prices across Solo, Studio, and Gallery, with monthly and annual billing where applicable. QuRated.art charges no commissions on artwork sales.
Solo
Artist starting point
Ongoing free plan
A lighter entry experience for organizing and publishing artwork.
Start FreeStudio
The full QuRated.art experience for professional artists
$229 per year,
$19/month equivalent
Save 20%
The artist comparison on this page reflects the Studio capability set.
Get StartedGallery
For galleries, hosts, collectives, and multi-artist exhibitions
$699 per year,
$58.25/month equivalent
Save 26%
The gallery comparison reflects the Gallery capability set.
Start as a GalleryArtsy does not publish current plan prices. Its official materials describe several subscription plans, recommended after application, typically billed monthly, each including a subscription fee plus a commission on e-commerce transactions.
Independent sources have reported Artsy plans at roughly $350 to $1,000 per month, setup fees around $400 to $800, and commissions of about 3% to 19%, but the figures conflict and are not an official current Artsy rate sheet.
QuRated.art prices are loaded from the active plan data used by its pricing page. Artsy pricing language was reviewed from its official partner materials on July 23, 2026.
Artsy offers access to an existing marketplace audience. QuRated.art helps artists and galleries build, retain, extend, and understand first-party collector reach around their own work, shows, fairs, and professional relationships.
Reviewed July 23, 2026: Over 2 million registered users, with collectors across 190 or more countries; over 1 million artworks, 90,000 or more artists, and 4,000 or more galleries listed; 700 or more partner museums and institutions; 60 or more fairs previewable. Artsy and Artnet, which joined forces in April 2026 under shared ownership, report a combined reach of over 60 million annual visitors and 9.8 million or more social followers, across 190 or more countries.
Public artist, Gallery, artwork, show, and exhibition pages controlled by the account, including show and exhibition pages used for fair participation; direct sharing of artwork, show, and profile links, plus Phone Share Cards with their own reporting source; Printed Materials that retain physical visitors; the Tab Effect, which extends a physical encounter past the moment it happened; QID professional discovery and persistent connections; open inquiry and sales paths on those pages; and measurement of the interest an account's own materials and events actually generate.
First-party reach both retains and expands: public pages, searchable content, sharing paths, fairs, and professional connections can bring new people in, not only hold the ones already known.
Marketplace search; recommendation algorithms and personalized alerts; follows and saves; curated collections and editorial; fair pages; built-in collector traffic.
Public pages with search visibility; shared artwork and show links; QID professional introductions and connections; Phone Share Cards and business-card QR assets; fair and exhibition materials; referrals and direct sharing.
QID supports professional artist, Gallery, and peer discovery and connection without operating as a global public marketplace directory.
Both applications support art fairs, in different ways.
Artsy places approved partners inside marketplace fair pages and previews across dozens of fairs, backed by a dedicated fair partnerships team and gallery weekend initiatives. Pre-fair uploads let collectors browse before the booth opens, with exposure to Artsy's existing collector audience, marketplace recommendations, and inquiry and purchase paths inside Artsy. Some Artsy fair pages note that their coverage is independent and not officially associated with that fair.
QuRated.art helps artists and galleries use their own show and exhibition records for fair participation: public show and exhibition pages, wall labels and show label sheets for the booth, artist and exhibition handouts including multi-artwork handouts, poster and business-card QR assets, Phone Share Cards, persistent artwork and show QR paths, and ScanAlytics by artwork, show, and material. The Tab Effect carries engagement past the fair, and QID connections can be made or strengthened at the fair itself.
Artsy can place an approved gallery inside a major marketplace and fair ecosystem. QuRated.art helps artists and galleries activate, measure, and extend their own fair presence.
| Capability | QuRated.art | Artsy |
|---|---|---|
| Built-in marketplace fair audience | Not offered | Included |
| Fair partnership pages | Not offered | Included |
| Show or exhibition page used for a fair | Included | Different model |
| Artist-organized fair participation | Included | No equivalent capability found |
| Gallery-organized fair participation | Included | Partner-dependent |
| Wall labels and handouts at fairs | Included | No equivalent capability found |
| Business-card and poster QR assets | Included | No equivalent capability found |
| Phone Share Card | Included | No equivalent capability found |
| Artwork-specific QR paths | Included | No equivalent capability found |
| Tab Effect | Included | No equivalent capability found |
| Material-specific reporting | Included | No equivalent capability found |
| Fair-level engagement reporting | Included | Partial, marketplace metrics |
| Post-fair engagement | Included | Partial, marketplace follows and saves |
| Fair inquiry and online purchase path | Included | Included |
A wall label should do more than identify the artwork.
| Capability | QuRated.art | Artsy |
|---|---|---|
| Artwork wall labels | Included | No equivalent capability found |
| Show label sheets | Included | No equivalent capability found |
| Artist handouts | Included, artist accounts | No equivalent capability found |
| Exhibition handouts | Included | No equivalent capability found |
| Multi-artwork handouts with per-artwork codes | Included | No equivalent capability found |
| Show QR path | Included | No equivalent capability found |
| Individual artwork QR paths | Included | No equivalent capability found |
| Poster QR asset | Included, an attributable QR asset for your own design | No equivalent capability found |
| Business-card QR asset | Included, same basis | No equivalent capability found |
| Phone Share Card | Included | No equivalent capability found |
| Collector and post-sale labels | Included, Gallery accounts | No equivalent capability found |
| Material-specific source identities | Included | No equivalent capability found |
| Persistent redirects resolved at scan time | Included | No equivalent capability found |
| Reporting by physical material | Included | No equivalent capability found |
A scan can lead to the artwork, the artist, the Gallery, the show, price and availability, related listings, sharing, a qualifying inquiry, a purchase of sellable artwork, or an eligible commission request, depending on the material and its setup.
QuRated.art does not design complete posters, business cards, postcards, invitations, or checklists. It provides the attributable QR asset that goes into your own design.
A visitor scans a wall label, a handout, a poster asset, a business-card QR, a Phone Share Card, or another supported material. The artwork or show page opens in their mobile browser and can remain available after they leave the fair, exhibition, opening, pop-up, or studio.
That page supports returning later, sharing, revisiting the artwork, checking price or availability, inquiring, purchasing sellable artwork, and continuing engagement long after the physical encounter ends.
A printed card handed to a visitor is a hope. A scanned page is a place they can go back to. The Tab Effect is the bridge between a physical encounter at a fair or opening and what happens next: it doesn't identify the same person across later visits, and no scan is tied to a specific sale, but the page itself keeps working after the room empties out.
Artsy reports what happens inside its marketplace and, through Artnet, offers broader market context. QuRated.art shows artists and galleries what is happening around their own artwork, Printed Materials, fairs, exhibitions, and sales.
Artsy's CMS reports views, inquiries, and sales, with Global Reach and Traffic Sources charts, plus collector context delivered with each inquiry and strategy sessions with a named Gallery Liaison. Through the Artsy and Artnet combination, partners also get preferred access to the Artnet Price Database for broader market context.
| Capability | QuRated.art | Artsy |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplace views, inquiries, sales, traffic sources, global reach | Not offered | Included |
| Broad historical price and market context | Not offered | Included, via Artnet, attributed |
| Engagement by artwork, material, show, artist, and account | Included | No equivalent capability found |
| Wall-label vs. handout activity | Included | No equivalent capability found |
| Date, hour, weekday, device, broad location | Included | Partial, marketplace-level |
| Price-visible vs. price-hidden engagement | Included | No equivalent capability found |
| Sold and available artwork activity | Included | Partial |
| Sales Reporting | Included | Included |
| Strategic debriefs and follow-up guidance | Included, in-product | Different model: human Gallery Liaison and strategy support |
ScanAlytics shows how people engage with artwork and printed materials without turning the dashboard into a visitor-profiling tool.
Sales Reporting is included, not partial. Considered alongside ScanAlytics, it helps an artist or Gallery see what sold, what received attention, which shows performed, which materials produced engagement, and where follow-up may be worthwhile. It doesn't identify which individual scan caused a sale, and no such claim is made.
QID creates persistent professional connections among artists, galleries, studios, artist hosts, and collaborators, existing outside any exhibition.
The relationship is multidirectional. Artists can connect, request an exhibition opportunity, pursue participation, and offer eligible artwork. Hosts can invite, review, and select or release. Through an active connection, authorized users can privately review an artist's active body of work, including available and sold pieces with displayed pricing context. Only the offer and selection stage is tied to a specific exhibition; the source QuRated.art account keeps the artwork record, and duplicate Gallery entry isn't required for that event.
| Dimension | QID | Artsy |
|---|---|---|
| Nature of the relationship | Persistent professional connection among artists, galleries, studios, artist hosts, and collaborators, existing outside any exhibition | Partner representation within a marketplace |
| Who holds the artwork record | The source QuRated.art account holds the artwork record. When an artist offers work into a hosted exhibition, the artist retains that source record. | The partner maintains the marketplace listing. |
| Private professional access | Authorized connections can privately review an artist's active body of work, including available and sold pieces with displayed pricing context | No equivalent capability found |
| Direction of initiative | Multidirectional: artists connect, request exhibition opportunities, and offer artwork; hosts invite, review, select, or release | One direction: a gallery applies to Artsy, and the artist's presence follows from partner representation |
| Artist-to-artist and Gallery-to-Gallery connection | Included | No equivalent capability found |
| Discovery | Exchanged QIDs, QID Phone Cards, referrals, public pages, introductions, direct links, requests, and invitations, without a global public directory | Marketplace search, recommendations, alerts, curation |
QuRated.art's public pages, artist and Gallery presence, artwork and show pages, and exhibitions are connected to each other and to Printed Materials, inquiries, eligible sales, and Commissioned Artwork. Through QID, an artist offering work into a hosted exhibition keeps the source record.
Artsy hosts artist pages, artwork listings, gallery profiles, shows, fairs, viewing rooms, auction lots, and curated collections within Artsy's own brand and interface, maintained by vetted gallery partners.
On Artsy, work appears inside Artsy's marketplace experience. On QuRated.art, the public pages, show records, materials, and engagement paths belong to the account's connected presence.
| Capability | QuRated.art | Artsy |
|---|---|---|
| Structured artwork inquiries | Included | Included |
| Offers | Not confirmed | Included |
| Context accompanying an inquiry | Different model: the direct inquiry and buyer-provided details are delivered to the account | Marketplace collector-profile context, including verified fields such as location and budget |
| Online artwork sales and checkout | Included | Included |
| Auctions | Not offered | Included |
| International and multi-currency purchasing | Not offered, USD | Included |
Artsy connects sales to its marketplace and collector audience. QuRated.art connects online sales to first-party artwork and show pages, Printed Materials, ScanAlytics, Commissioned Artwork, and Sales Reporting.
No dedicated commission workflow was found in Artsy's official materials reviewed on July 23, 2026: no public commission request intake, no commission project record, no buyer record for a commission, no agreement or signature flow, and no payment schedule. A general inquiry or a custom listing is not a commission workflow.
QuRated.art provides, for artist accounts: public commission intake, structured requests, buyer records, commission projects, agreements with private buyer access, a typed signature, and a payment schedule with initial and later payments, including recorded outside payments. A signed record and PDF are generated after the required initial payment. QuRated.art doesn't send scheduled payment requests automatically, doesn't offer a buyer final-art approval portal, and doesn't support Gallery-managed Commissioned Artwork.
A visitor who scanned a label at an opening can begin an eligible commission request later, from the page still sitting in their browser.
A Gallery may use Artsy for marketplace reach and use QuRated.art for its own artists, shows, fairs, Printed Materials, QID participation, first-party engagement intelligence, inquiries, and sales.
These are complementary, not competing, systems. A Gallery's Artsy partnership brings marketplace exposure; its QuRated.art account is where its own artists, shows, and engagement data live and connect to each other.
You have, or are pursuing, an approved gallery partnership, and want access to an existing marketplace collector audience, marketplace recommendations, auctions, fairs, editorial exposure, and Artsy and Artnet market context.
You want direct artist or Gallery access, ownership of your public presence, your own shows and fair activation, Printed Materials with distinct source identities, the Tab Effect, ScanAlytics, QID professional relationships, Commissioned Artwork, first-party engagement intelligence with Sales Reporting, and transparent pricing with no commissions on artwork sales.
You're a Gallery that wants Artsy's marketplace reach for your program and QuRated.art for your own connected exhibition, relationship, material, engagement, and sales system.
QuRated.art doesn't currently offer editions, variants, or quantities, a standalone location model, a general-purpose CRM, complete poster or business-card design, a marketplace collector audience, auctions, or editorial placement, and those limits stand alongside the list above.
Beyond the comparison, QuRated.art connects your artwork to your shows, your Printed Materials, the engagement around an exhibition, your professional relationships, and your sales, whether you're an artist building a public presence or a Gallery running its own program.