The cheapest unlimited year
Depositphotos sells the lowest twelve-month total for unlimited downloads in our stock photo comparison: $264 paid upfront. Monthly, it is $29 with no commitment. Over 190 million files, every size, AI image generation thrown in.
On price, that beats every paid library here. It scores 7.1 under how we rate, a tenth behind Dreamstime, and it is in also considered rather than in the four. Two clauses put it there.
No reminder, and packs that refill
The first is in the subscription agreement, in plain words: "DepositPhotos does not send any notices by any means of communication regarding the impending subscription renewal, nor can we be held liable for missed subscription cancellations."
Most vendors bury renewal terms. Depositphotos states that it will not tell you, and that missing the date is your problem. On an annual plan paid upfront, that is a $264 charge with no warning.
Packs carry the same design. Three images cost $27 and a hundred cost $179, valid for a year, and the pricing page notes that a pack "Refills when all downloads are used, unless canceled". A one-off purchase that renews itself is not a one-off purchase.
When you do cancel, unused downloads expire at the end of the billing period.
Five thousand dollars of cover, in total
The second clause is the licence's liability cap. Depositphotos limits its "total maximum aggregate obligation and liability for all claims" to $5,000.
Read that against the rest of the set. Shutterstock, Adobe Stock, Dreamstime and iStock each publish $10,000 of cover per image on a standard licence. Depositphotos offers half of that, for everything, combined.
For blog headers and social posts this will never matter. For an advert that runs nationally, it is the difference between the vendor sharing the risk and you holding it.
Unlimited, until something decides otherwise
The plan is called Unlimited Downloads and publishes no cap. The subscription agreement adds a Responsible Usage Policy under which "unusually intensive download activity may temporarily activate automated protection measures", without saying what counts as unusual.
Shutterstock publishes its limit, a hundred a day. Depositphotos publishes the existence of one. For a team that downloads in bursts before a campaign, the stated number is the more useful of the two.
Extended licences are where the price jumps
Merchandise, templates and print runs over 500,000 need the extended licence, as at every paid library here. Depositphotos sells it in packs: three for $222, ten for $490, thirty for $990. At the small end that is $74 an image against $9 for the same image on a standard pack.
The extended pack does lift the copy limit and the major-role restriction, so a mug or a template for sale becomes legal. It does not lift the $5,000 liability cap, which applies to all claims whatever licence you bought.
Who it suits
High-volume work where no single image carries much risk: content teams feeding a blog or a social calendar, who need fifty images a month and will put a renewal date in their own calendar.
Anyone running advertising, or anyone who wants a library that warns them before charging, should pay a little more for Dreamstime or Shutterstock.
Prices, renewal and liability terms on this page were read from the Depositphotos pricing page, licence and subscription agreement on . We did not test the service.
