Depositphotos vs Shutterstock

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.

Shutterstock is a paid creative platform for finding and licensing photos, vectors, illustrations, video, 3D models, music, and sound effects. It is available on the web and through an API, which can bring library search and licensing into third-party applications. The company says its library contains more than 450 million images and grows by 200,000 images a day. Image tools include Expand Image, Variations, Magic Brush, and Background Remover; the remover works only on images up to 7000×5000 pixels and does not remove vector background layers. Its AI image generator returns four results per prompt, downloadable under a Standard or Enhanced license. Both licenses allow perpetual use of downloaded content; Enhanced adds permissions for merchandise, templates, and unlimited physical print runs. Unlimited plans include models from Runway, Google, OpenAI, and others, but cap downloads at 100 assets daily. Monthly subscription downloads do not roll over. The API license bars raw asset-file access or downloads and requires assets delivered in an app to be limited to projects created there. The listed 10-image subscription is $25 a year, billed yearly at $300; a one-time image pack is 29.00 USD.