Flickr vs Piwigo
Flickr
flickr.com
Piwigo
piwigo.orgSide by side
| Figure | Flickr | Piwigo |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $6.83/mo | €32/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| iOS | Yes | Yes |
| Android | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 5 | 8 |
| Spec score · Photo Storage Services | 9.3 (#3) | 8.3 (#17) |
| Spec score · Photo Management Software | 9.3 (#2) | 8.2 (#14) |
| Spec score · Photo Sharing Software | 9.3 (#2) | 8.3 (#14) |
| Founded | 2004 | 2002 |
| Integrations | Official tools include Lightroom and Aperture upload integrations, a Chrome new-tab extension, and desktop Uploadr applications. | The pricing comparison lists Google Analytics and Matomo as external analytics tools that can be added. |
| Intended users | Flickr describes its community as a place for photographers to connect, learn, curate, and grow. | Piwigo identifies public-sector organizations, companies, tourism organizations, universities, nonprofits, clubs, and photographers among its users. |
| Organization | Users can store and organize photos, create and share galleries, and view galleries made from photographers they love. | It supports albums, sub-albums, tags, metadata, search, and user permissions. |
| Support | Flickr directs users to contact its help service for questions, concerns, and customer service inquiries. | Cloud subscriptions include email support, with priority support on higher plans; self-hosted professional support is available through support plans. |
Plans
Flickr
- Flickr FreeFree
- Flickr Pro$8 a month
- Flickr Pro Monthly$11 a month
- Flickr Pro Annual$82 a year
- Flickr Pro 2-Year$148, paid once
Piwigo
- Free (self-hosted)Free
- Pro€32 a month
- Light (self-hosted support)€43 a month
- Standard (self-hosted support)€87 a month
- Team€109 a month
- Premium (self-hosted support)€165 a month
- Enterprise€219 a month
- VIP€439 a month
In their own words
Flickr
Flickr is an online photography community for managing, sharing, and discovering photos. Users can store and organize images, make galleries, and explore galleries from photographers they follow. Groups, contests, and a photography blog provide community activities, while daily curation and Creative Commons images support discovery. Privacy settings let users choose default visibility and control who can view, download, or interact with individual photos and videos. The mobile app can upload camera-roll photos and videos automatically, keeping them private until the user chooses to share them. Image recognition can find visually similar images and assist with search and organization. Users may authorize third-party apps to work with their accounts and later revoke access in settings. Flickr offers an API for non-commercial use; commercial use requires prior arrangement. The free plan permits 1,000 public photo and video uploads and displays ads. Flickr Pro costs $8 a month, billed annually, and includes unlimited full-resolution sharing and backup, ad-free browsing, detailed statistics, and enhanced privacy settings.
Piwigo
Piwigo is open-source photo management software for organizing and sharing photo and video collections. Albums, sub-albums, tags, metadata, and search help structure a library; roles, groups, and permissions let users publish galleries or restrict access. The software can be extended with plugins, themes, settings, and custom code, and both cloud and self-hosted versions provide API access.
Piwigo Cloud is hosted in France on Piwigo’s own infrastructure; the company says customer data is not transferred to the United States. Android and iOS apps support browsing libraries, editing photo details, and uploading photos and videos. Piwigo describes automatic tag and description generation and OCR text extraction, with its AI hosted on its own infrastructure. Users can export photos, videos, and metadata without charge and switch between Cloud and self-hosted deployments. The self-hosted plan is free. Cloud Pro costs €32 a month, billed annually and excluding VAT, and includes 10GB storage, one administrator, unlimited users, and no contributors. Other listed plans vary in storage, formats, contributors, and support. A Cloud subscription is limited to one Piwigo.