Depositphotos vs Pexels

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.

Pexels is a free photo and video library available on the web and through apps and add-ons. Its downloadable photos and videos are licensed for personal and commercial use without attribution. The site lists vector, illustration, and editorial assets. Accounts add collections, download history, photographer follows, a personalized homepage, likes, and uploading. Developers can use the free RESTful JSON API to access the photo and video library programmatically. API keys default to 200 requests per hour and 20,000 requests per month; the API may not be used to reproduce Pexels or make wallpaper and image-gallery apps. Official tools include iOS and Android apps, a Chrome extension, Google Slides add-on, and Figma and Sketch plugins. A community MS Office add-in is also listed. Pexels identifies Canva, Typeform, Sketch, and Airtable as API partners. Its listed Free plan costs nothing. Pexels says uploads created with generative AI are not allowed.