Depositphotos is a popular, inexpensive, and trustworthy royalty-free stock photo site with an extensive library of 188 mil+ stock photos, vectors, and videos. Still interested in this Depositphotos review? Sweet!

Since it has been founded in 2009 by Dmitry Sergeev, Depositphotos has grown into a large stock photo site that has had more than 18mil customers and is trusted by world-renowned corporations, such as Subaru and Bosch.

Its affordable prices, high-quality images, and easy-to-use website make Depositphotos especially popular among bloggers and website designers.

Let’s get right into it.

Depositphotos pricing

Prices start at $0.22/image with annual subscriptions and $0.27/image with monthly subscriptions. With on demand packs the prices start at $2.99/image. Extended license costs from $63.96/image.

Depositphotos offers 2 types of pricing plans:

Subscription plans and On Demand packs.

The key difference between these is that subscription plans give you a certain number of downloads each month, while you purchase on demand packs once and use them until you run out of downloads.

In general, subscriptions come with lower price per image and are a better option if you know you’ll have consistent image needs.

On demand packs are perfect when you only need a couple of images, so you don’t want to commit to any sort of recurring contract.

Subscription plans

Subscription plans is what you should choose if you know you’re going to have consistent image needs and you want the best prices.

You can choose between more expensive monthly plans:

And cheaper annual plans, which give 14% discount:

However, annual plans bound you to a yearly contract.

Here is the price comparison of subscription plans:

For example, if you purchase 30 images for 12 months (a year), you will pay $348 (12×$29); however, if you commit to an entire year, you pay only $299.

Features of subscription plans:

• Additional images $1 each – if you run out of images in a given month, you can purchase additional images for as low as $1.
• Unused downloads transfer to the next month – super-useful if you don’t use all images one month. Depositphotos makes sure you don’t waste your money.
• Up to 500,000 copies – you can use these images for printing, but you must not copy more than 500,000-times. For that, you need to purchase the Extended License.
• Life-long right to use images – once you download an image you can use it forever. Some stock photo sites, don’t let you use the images you downloaded as soon as you stop paying.
• You can use images for marketing and advertising.
• Print or digital use – you can reprint the image or use it as you wish, as long as you’re not selling it.

In conclusion, subscription plans are a great option if you know that you’re going to consistently need images for at least a couple of months. Otherwise, On Demand plans are your best option …

On Demand plans

On Demand plans are the right options for you if know you’ll only need a couple of images. But be careful, these are a lot more expensive.

With On Demand plans you can buy Standard (= royalty-free license) or Extended Licenses with 4 different plans.

Let’s look at Standard licenses first:

The best prices come with the largest plan of 100 images for $299, resulting in $2.99/image. The smaller the plan, the higher the price per image gets. Therefore, 3 images cost $42, with $14.00/image.

With the Extended License, these plans get significantly more expensive.

Again, the larger the On Demand plan, the lower the price per image. In this case, The pack of 25 Extended license images cost $1,599 for just $63.96 per image. If you only purchase 1 Extended license, this cost gets up to $89.

Why would you even purchase the Extended License?

The Extended License gives you the rights to create more than 500,000 copies of the image and use it as the main part of the design for resale. Such as, T-shirts, gift wrapping, stickers, keychains, etc.

Read a full Depositphotos license comparison.

Features of On Demand plans:

• Download files any time within a year since purchase
• Full access to Depositphotos library
• Download photos (JPG) and vectors (EPS and AI)
• Includes all files sizes
• You can purchase either under Standard or Extended license

Unlimited downloads

Do you need substantially more downloads than Depositphotos offers, but you also want a lower price?

You can choose Unlimited downloads plan that costs just $4.99/month and gives you access to a collection of 732,000+ files.

Videos

With videos being an important part of some advertisements or websites, Depositphotos offers both subscriptions and on demand packs for videos.

Subscriptions include all SD, HD, and 4K videos, which will cost you between $19.96 and $29.80.

On demand plans are sold separately based on video quality, where you can choose between 240p, 480p, 720p, 1080p, and 4K.

I won’t go into detail about every video definition price; you can buy videos for between $12.76/video and $169.00/video.

Music

Music is sold slightly differently at Depositphotos.

You can choose between either an Unlimited subscriptions (unlimited downloads) and On demand plans of Standard and Extended license.

Unlimited subscription gives you unlimited downloads od music of all the tracks on Depositphotos.

If you want to save money, instead of purchasing a monthly plan ($19/mo), go for a yearly plan ($199/ye or 16.58/mo).

On the other hand, if you only need a couple of tracks, on demand plans are your best bet. They will cost you between $15.96/sound track up to $39.00/sound track.

Extended license tracks are expectedly more expensive:

Pricing for Business

If you’re not a business owner, skip this chapter.

For businesses that have more than 1 employee, Enterprise plans are a go-to option.

In contrast with individual plans, these allow several users to use the downloads images, videos, or music.

I won’t bore you with pricing details, because if you’re a business, I’m 100% sure you know your way around stock photo pricing.

Here’s the gist:

For large companies, Depositphotos will happily put together a custom plan with high indemnification.

Furthermore, similar pricing plans are available for videos and music.

Free Trial

Depositphotos does not offer a free trial.

If you want to download free files from Depositphotos, there is a collection of almost 70,000 files that you can download for free.

But here’s the catch:

You may not use these files all willy-nilly. Na-a.

Here is the summary of permitted uses (read full text):

Additionally, you must attribute the author and Depositphotos as stated under the image.

Here’s an example (notice the attribution in the caption of the image):

That’s all you have to do.

Standard License

Depositphotos Standard License is a default license similar to a royalty-free license. Every price plan you saw up until this point is for the Standard license (unless explicitly stated otherwise).

It allows you to use a downloaded file for personal and commercial purposes that are in line with the terms of the Standard License.

Standard License may be used for purposes such as advertising, product packaging, marketing, newspapers and magazines, websites and apps, digital use, book and e-books, and a lot more.

A print run of a Standard License is limited to 500,000 copies. Plus, you may not use the file in a way, where it’s the major part of the design.

If you need more copies or want to use it as the main design piece, consider purchasing an Extended License:

Extended License

Extended License permits all the uses that the Standard License does and more.

For one, Extended License does not have any limits on prints (you can do more than 500,000). Plus, you are allowed to use the downloaded file as the main or only part of the design, such as posters, postcards, cups, T-shirts, etc.

The Extended License at Dreamstime can only be purchased with On Demand plans.

FAQ

Depositphotos review | Conclusion

Depositphotos is a viable alternative to other stock photos sites, such as Shutterstock, Alamy, and even Adobe Stock.

With its competitive prices, it’s difficult to decide which one is the best. Your final decision should be based on which site has the most photos from the niche you need.

I recommend Depositphotos to anyone looking for a very good stock photo website with low-average prices and high-quality photos.

I don’t recommend Depositphotos to anyone looking for lower prices (Dreamstime), higher amount of total images (Shutterstock) or to any creative/artist using Adobe Creative Cloud (Adobe Stock).

On Depositphotos, you will find just any image, videos, or vector you’re looking for.