The present disclosure discloses a method and an apparatus for recognizing an image. A specific implementation of the method comprises: acquiring a to-be-recognized image containing a to-be-recognized object; sending the to-be-recognized image to a server, and receiving identification information of a target object corresponding to the to-be-recognized object returned by the server, obtained by recognizing the to-be-recognized image, and a confidence parameter returned by the server; and determining the identification information of the target object as a recognition result when the confidence parameter is greater than a confidence threshold; or acquiring labeled information associated with the to-be-recognized image from a third-party platform and determining the labeled information as the recognition result when the confidence parameter is smaller than the confidence threshold.