I researched different sources of stock images. My main research topic was price. Note, pricing was current in June 2018.
UnSplash
- free
Pixabay
- free
Pexels
- free
iStockPhoto
- Two pricing plans
- Credits that start out at $11 per credit and reduce with volume
- Subscription plans
- 10 images per month; access all images for $99 a month or $70 a month per year
- 10 images per month; essential images only for $40 a month or $29 a month per year
- Basically, images start costing 1 credit.
Shutterstock
- Two pricing plans
- Single project
- 2 images for $29
- 5 images for $49
- Ongoing projects
- Month to month is 10 images for $49 per month
- Annual is 10 images for $29 per month
- Single project
Adobe Stock
- Two pricing terms
- Month to month
- 3 assets a month for $29.99; additional assets at $9.99 each
- Annual
- 10 assets a month for $29.99; additional assets at $2.99 each
- Month to month
Fotolia
- Owned by Adobe Stock
- Multiple options
- On demand
- $14 for 10 credits
- Monthly pack
- $25 a month for 5 downloads
- Daily subscription
- 25 downloads a day
- On demand
- Credits depend on the size of the image
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