Pexels
Who runs Pexels, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest stock photography alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Couldn’t check
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
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- Closest alternative
- Pixabay
Measured from Pexels’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Pexels01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Pexels
Pexels pexels.com
Wikidata: free online media library
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Pexels tracks
We couldn’t read pexels.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so we can’t say what it loads.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Pexels
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Pexels, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read pexels.com’s homepage (bot protection page), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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free online media library
Very close - 02 unsplash.com Top 1K
website dedicated to sharing copyright-free photography under the Unsplash license
Very close - 03
American stock photography, stock footage, stock music, and editing tools provider
Very close - 04
Royalty-Free Stock Photos, Creative Images & Vectors | News, Fashion, and Entertainment imagery - Getty Images
Discover Getty Images' unrivaled collection of royalty-free images to find the perfect stock photo, vector, or illustration that resonates with your customers.
Very close - 05
Royalty-free Images, Photo Stock, Video & Music | DepositPhotos
Royalty-free stock images at affordable prices on DepositPhotos. Download stock photos for commercial use. Pictures, videos, music for every topic.
Very close - 06
Unlimited Stock Videos, Templates, Audio & Images - Storyblocks
Streamline your creative work with the best-in-industry unlimited stock downloads, flexible licensing, and easy-to-use tools. Subscribe today and get all the stock you need.
Very close - 07
Stock Photos, Vectors and Royalty Free Images from 123RF
Search and download from millions of HD stock photos, royalty free images, cliparts, vectors and illustrations
Very close - 08
Stock Images, Royalty-Free Images, Illustrations, Vectors and Videos - iStock
iStock has millions of exclusive stock photos, videos, vectors, and illustrations that are researched and shot by a diverse global community. © 2023 iStockphoto LP.
Very close - 09
Stock Photos & Images, Vectors, Video & Audio - Dreamstime
Find the perfect stock photos, images and vectors for your project. Quickly search over 377 million images including free and public domain images.
Very close - 10
British stock photography agency
Very close - 11
Online marketplace where users can license stock photos, vector graphics, and stock footage
Very close - 12
Envato® | AI Tools and Unlimited Creative Assets
Create and customize content with AI tools and unlimited creative assets for professional and commercial use.
Very close - 13
10M Free Icons & Stock Photos | SVG & PNG | Download Today
🎨 Discover 10M high-quality SVG & PNG icons & stock photos for your next project. 🔍 Find the perfect icon or photo in seconds!
Very close - 14 Artlist.io artlist.io
Creative technology company that offers online catalogs for content creators, including royalty-free music, sound effects, stock footage, video templates and video editing software
Very close - 15 skillshare.com English
online learning platform
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Client Challenge
free and open-source web content management system
Very close - 17 Macrotrends macrotrends.net
Historical securities information provider
Very close - 18
DaFont - Schriftarten zum Download
Ein Archiv kostenlos herunterladbarer Schriftarten. Durchsuchen Sie nach alphabetischer Reihenfolge, Stil, Autor oder Popularität.
Very close - 19 softonic.com Top 10K
technology news website
Very close - 20 magnific.com Top 10K
stock photography site
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Pexels’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Pexels uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Pexels adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 6 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 44 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Pexels’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:mailgun.org include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zende…
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a562fd5a9f29dea4-HAM
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- Mailgun TXT v=spf1 include:mailgun.org include:_spf.google.com include:mail.zende…
- DNS hosting
- Cloudflare DNS NS jake.ns.cloudflare.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=pjVt80LseSzxnAV6xwI-MzfuNv-I1yg20Dt2VMaj98w
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace 15/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on pexels.com 9/20
- Apple Business · not on pexels.com 9/20
- Atlassian · not on pexels.com 8/20
- Amazon Route 53 · not on pexels.com 8/20
- Cloudflare 7/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on pexels.com 7/20
- GlobalSign · not on pexels.com 6/20
- OpenAI · not on pexels.com 6/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on pexels.com 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS 5/20
- Stripe · not on pexels.com 5/20
- SendGrid · not on pexels.com 4/20
- DocuSign · not on pexels.com 4/20
- Miro · not on pexels.com 4/20