DepositPhotos

What is DepositPhotos?

DepositPhotos is a stock content platform holding more than 334 million royalty-free files. The library spans photographs, vector images, illustrations, video, music and sound effects, and it has a separate editorial section. Search offers an AI mode and lookup from an uploaded reference picture, and the site adds its own AI Generator and an AI Assistant. Image plans come in two forms. A subscription with unlimited downloads can be paid month to month or taken as a 12-month commitment, and it also includes unlimited AI image generation. Alternatively, prepaid packs give a fixed number of downloads that remain valid for one year. Files are licensed for commercial use, with lifetime rights to anything downloaded. For companies, DepositPhotos offers business solutions, an API suite and datasets for AI training. Its About page reports more than 100,000 contributors and 13 million clients worldwide.

Key Features

Use Cases

Marketing Campaigns

License photos and illustrations for ads, landing pages and social posts.

Video Production

Add stock footage, music and sound effects to an edit.

News-Style Articles

Draw on the separate editorial section for pictures that accompany reporting.

Occasional Design Jobs

Buy a small prepaid pack when only a handful of images is needed during the year.

AI Training Data

Obtain datasets for training AI models through the platform's AI training data offering.

Pricing

The official plans page states that prices are shown in US dollars. Only the month-to-month Unlimited plan is listed here; the annual option is advertised as 25% cheaper, and prepaid image packs are sold separately, but their exact amounts depend on the options selected on the page. Checked 10 Oct 2026 at depositphotos.com.

See current pricing on depositphotos.com

Things to know

Plans renew automatically

The monthly plan renews each month and the annual commitment renews each year unless cancelled; packs refill once all downloads are used.

Packs expire

Prepaid downloads stay available for one year from the purchase date.

Annual plan is a commitment

The 12-month option can be paid in 12 monthly instalments or in one payment up front.

License type depends on the product

The unlimited subscription uses an individual Standard license, while packs can be bought with a Standard or an Extended license.

FAQs

Who it's for

• Marketers
• Designers
• Content teams
• Publishers
• Developers

Tagsstock photosroyalty-freevectorsstock videoAI generatorAPI

Used in these workflows

• Building a brand identity with AI, from the name to the first videoStage 4: Brand imagery
• The AI toolkit for running a YouTube channel, one upload at a timeStage 4: Footage and b-roll
• Where AI tools fit in making a documentary, from research to subtitlesStage 5: Illustrative footage and b-roll

Each guide lists the stages of one job and the tools that help at each stage. All guides

Alternatives to DepositPhotos

Tool	Free plan	Starting price	API
iStockRoyalty-free stock photos, illustrations, vectors and video, from a library that does not accept AI-generated submissions.	—	—	—
StockCakeLibrary of free AI-generated stock images with a browser AI editor for resizing, effects and upscaling.	Yes	—	—
A2EAI video and image toolset covering image to video, face and head swap, lip sync, voice cloning and avatars.	Yes	—	Yes
CaimeraAI visual production platform for fashion brands, turning flat-lays and sketches into on-model images, videos and tech packs.	Yes	—	Yes
Cutout.ProOnline toolbox for background removal, photo enhancement, AI image and video generation, with an API.	—	—	Yes

Listed in the same categories as DepositPhotos. A starting price appears only where we checked it on the maker’s pricing page; a dash means not checked or not published. All Stock Media tools