Pixabay.com is a free stock photography and royalty-free stock media website. It is used for sharing photos, illustrations, vector graphics, film footage, music, and sound effects, exclusively under the custom Pixabay license, which generally allows the free use of the material with some restrictions. Source Wikipedia.
Available in: 26 languages
Launched: 24 November 2010; 13 years ago
Owner: Canva, Hans Braxmeier, Simon Steinberger
Pexels is a provider of stock photography and stock footage. It was founded in Germany in 2014 and maintains a library with over 3.2 million free stock photos and videos. Source Wikipedia.
Owner: Canva
CEO: Clifford Obrecht, Bruno Joseph
Employees: 40
Founded: 2014
Headquarters: Germany
Unsplash is a website dedicated to proprietary stock photography. Since 2021, it has been owned by Getty Images. The website claims over 330,000 contributing photographers and generates more than 13 billion photo impressions per month on its growing library of over 5 million photos. Source Wikipedia.
Owner: Getty Images
Categories: Photography, Photo agency
Content license: Free, with exceptions of selling without modification and compiling for a competing service
Founder(s): Mikael Cho; Luke Chesser; Stephanie Liverani; Angus Woodman
Headquarters: Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Launched: May 29, 2013; 10 years ago.
Last but not least, special thanks to Maximillian Laumeister for providing PageCrypt.
