What Cat Breed

If you've ever wondered what breed your cat is, you've probably pointed Google Lens at it or dropped a photo into ChatGPT and gotten a confident breed name back. What Cat Breed takes a narrower, more honest approach. It runs a vision model the team says was trained on more than 50,000 labeled cat photos, compares your cat with 31 breeds plus the ordinary house cat, and shows you the three closest matches, each with a match score and a reference photo. The big difference is that house cat option. General image tools love to tell you your gray cat is a Russian Blue. This one will say "house cat" when no breed fits clearly, and it tells you when a breed and the house cat are close calls. Since most pet cats aren't pedigreed, that's usually the right answer.

The second thing that sets it apart is that it publishes its numbers. On 6,409 photos the model had never seen, its first answer was right 81% of the time, and the correct breed landed in the top three 98.5% of the time. On the public Oxford-IIIT Pet benchmark it scored 92% overall and 96% when choosing only among that set's 12 cat breeds. It's also upfront about where it struggles. Distinctive breeds like the Sphynx, Cornish Rex, Persian and Russian Blue get recognized almost every time, while the American Shorthair is right only 44% of the time as a first pick. A method page lists the score for every breed. You won't get that kind of transparency from a general-purpose assistant.

It's free, there's no sign-up, and your photo is analyzed in memory and deleted right away. Your browser shrinks the image before upload, so it's quick even on a slow connection. The site is clear about the limits, too: it tells you which breed your cat looks like, not what its ancestry is. For a real answer you'll need pedigree papers or a cat DNA test. As a quick first read on a rescue cat, or a way to settle whether a fluffy cat is "part Maine Coon", it does the job well.