Depositphotos vs iStock

Depositphotos is a stock-content service offering royalty-free images, videos, vectors, illustrations, and music. Its library is listed at 334 million files, including stock photography, video, music, vector, illustration, and editorial assets. The service provides API access and lists an API Suite, Business Solutions, and live chat support. A monthly unlimited-download plan costs $25 a month, is billed monthly, and can be canceled anytime. That plan includes unlimited downloads with a standard commercial-use license, lifetime usage rights for downloaded files, and all image sizes. Unlimited AI image generation powered by Nano Banana is listed as included. A prepaid pack with three downloads costs 27.00 USD total, with downloads valid for one year; another plan entry lists the same pack at $27 a year. Depositphotos lists a free plan without specified contents. The company is headquartered in New York, USA, and was founded in 2009.

iStock licenses royalty-free photos, illustrations, vectors and video clips for advertising, websites, blogs, presentations, video productions, podcasts and other uses. Its Essentials collection covers everyday content; Signature is a collection of handpicked material exclusive to iStock. The service also offers AI image editing to add or remove objects, extend images, change backgrounds, edit by prompt and upscale generated images to 4K. iStock says its AI is trained exclusively on licensed content, not visuals or data scraped from the web, and that generated images receive automatic legal protection of $10,000 per image. Licensed files include a $10,000 USD legal guarantee, with an Extended Legal Guarantee available up to $250,000 USD. Basic costs $29 a month and Premium costs $70 a month, each billed annually with 10 downloads monthly. Premium + Video is listed at $125 a month, with a new-customer offer noted; Unlimited AI costs $14.99 a month. iStock also offers one free Signature photo each week and free illustrations and video clips each month. API access is available, and a plugin links Dropbox for accessing, sharing and collaborating on content across devices.