TrustRadius Insights for Pixabay are summaries of user sentiment data from TrustRadius reviews and, when necessary, third party data sources.
Pros
Wide variety of images: Users appreciate the wide range of images, illustrations, and vectors available on Pixabay. Many reviewers have stated that unlike many competitors who lump them all together, Pixabay makes it easy for users to find what they are looking for.
High-quality content: The quality of images and music provided by Pixabay is highly praised by users. They appreciate the professional and high-resolution content available on the platform. Several reviewers have mentioned that this high-quality content enhances their projects.
Free for commercial use: Users highly value the fact that Pixabay provides free images, videos, and music for both commercial and personal use. This advantage has been mentioned by a significant number of reviewers who appreciate being able to access a wide range of assets without worrying about copyright issues.
We often need artwork, ideas or photography to accompany articles or videos. Pixabay helps us with coming up with these ideas. It also exposes us to additional creatives for future products.
Pros
Quality images
Relevant search results
Easy to use interface
Cons
A better understanding of licenseing
Digital rights - blog, social media, video content, etc
Leverage AI to help recommend better options based on search criteria, past searches, etc.
Likelihood to Recommend
If you have a product you need media for, Pixabay provides a convenient way to quickly find images, video and audio for your next project.
I've been using Pixabay for web design and advertising projects for years. They've got tons of free images and videos which you can use commercially without worrying about attribution or licensing. That's huge when you're working on a low budget. The quality is solid and there is a good variety of styles and subjects.
Pros
Quality Images
Free Videos
Simple Licensing
Cons
I can't really think of anything! It's a good site.
Likelihood to Recommend
In my volunteer work with a local community theater, I've found it very useful to have free images, sound effects, and video clips to use for projects. There's often zero budget allocated for this sort of thing. In my commercial work, I've gotten images for client websites and background music for product videos on Pixabay. It's a good source for this sort of thing outside of the big houses like Adobe or Getty.
Pixabay provides us with high quality photos that we are able to use on our website, editorial content, and social media. Their photographs span a wide range of subjects and categories allowing us to easily find a match for our content and to fit any need. The photographs also easy to understand licensing to determine acceptable usage. It has streamlined our content creation process and allowed us to provide a more rich visual experience for our customers.
Pros
High quality images
Variety of content and subject matters
Easy to understand licensing
Cons
Sometimes hard to differentiate between Pixabay content and sponsored ad content
Photograph searching can be difficult if not able to hit on the right keywords
No easy way to browse general categories of images
Likelihood to Recommend
Pixabay is an excellent resource for when you need a high quality photo for a blog or website without having to pay an expensive licensing fee. It is a great resource for people and businesses that do not have the time or budget for generic photo shoots. It would not be ideal for a situation in which you need exclusive imagery as these photos are accessible and use by anyone. It would also not be appropriate if you need photos of a specific product or individual.
We us Pixabay to support our content marketing efforts --- blogging, social media posts, downloadable content, and some of our website photography.
Pros
photo variety
free photos
copyright free
Cons
sometimes the photos are TOO general and we need something specific
looking TOO stock-photo
orientation options
Likelihood to Recommend
I think pixabay is definitely a competitor when it comes to a stock photo website, and they're on my list of recommended and go-to sites. Are there some that are a bit better? Yes. But I will say there are some that are definitely not as good as pixaby, either. 7/10
Pixabay addresses the need for free stock photography and images that do not need royalties. The best uses within my organization are for sharing photos, graphics, videos, and illustrations. In the companies I have worked for this has been food related. The other great thing about Pixabay is the minimal restrictions within it.
Pros
Videos
Music
Vector graphics
Cons
Sometimes it does not have too many pics.
Lack of diverse music
Ethical restrictions
Likelihood to Recommend
On Pixabay there are around a million unique users each day. sometimes the support is not what it could be, sometimes, however, it is great. They also have a great FAQ page and interesting blog posts that are easy to digest. Tools are easy to use. Great accessibility. Good content, with good results.
We use pixabay to save money purchasing stock photos. We use their free arsenal for our marketing material. It gives our brand a professional look to have nice, color coordinated photos. It’s neat how each website has their own set of free pictures that you can scavenge through, and pixabay has a pretty good collection.
Pros
It has an easy to use interface. The web page is very easily navigated.
It is one of the most reputable for free pictures and widely known
It is best of all free for a lot of pictures!
Cons
It could offer more free pictures. I often have to look across multiple sites to get what I want.
It could be more variations of pictures rather than one photo shoot.
It could offer some kind of artist collective where artists are able to post their pictures.
Likelihood to Recommend
If you are trying to save money and have more in your hands, then pixabay would be more appropriate. If you were trying to save time, not money. It takes a long time to find the pictures you need. I would recommend Adobe stock if you are looking to find a picture faster.
I use Pixabay primarily when working with blogging. We strive to have at least 1 image in every blog, but that can get extremely taxing on both your time and your wallet. When I can't find what I want, Pixabay has a fairly good hit rate of getting me something close to the content. Basically, Pixabay is a great resource for images!
Pros
Easy to use.
Free
Great design
Cons
Login required for free download
Search is questionably good
Relies heavily on tags.
Likelihood to Recommend
Pixabay is great when you need an image quickly but don't have access to a premium subscription service. Or, a less likely alternative, you just can't find what you're looking for on stock, and you're looking for one last shot somewhere before coming up with a new idea. It's less appropriate as a primary source of images if you're going to be doing a lot of publishing.
VU
Verified User
Manager in Professional Services (11-50 employees)
When writing blog posts I use Pixabay for free photos to avoid copyright issues. A colleague recommended me as she had actually had that happen to her using pictures from Google. Pixabay offers a variety of different photos for most occasions and is super quick and easy to use to find images to boost SEO. With a quick search, you can see hundreds of pictures, I usually find only the first couple of pages are relevant to the search and they don't have any specific scenarios, those are behind a paywall
Pros
Variety of photos
Good quality photos
Easy to use for blogging
Cons
For some searches- it doesn’t have many options to choose from
Medical pictures are a bit lacking
Most pictures are general and difficult to find relatable pictures for some blog topics
Likelihood to Recommend
I think the free version of Pixabay works great for blogging to add a picture or two to support an article. In certain instances, for example, when creating a website- you may want to pay for the upgrade so you can access the higher-quality photos. Most of the free ones are pretty generic and basic compared to the paid photos. If you're looking for something specific, you may not find it. Canva and platforms have more options.
I use Pixaby when I want to find free good quality images. We use them to create scientific divulgation videos and help our YouTube channel to get more views. We also use the images to make divulgation posts in our Social Medias. This product is addressed to the problem that we sometimes have of finding images without Copyright.
Pros
Provides excellent quality images
Provides free images for all purposes
The website is good translated for Portuguese
Cons
It could have more free images.
The prices for paid images could be better in Brazilian currency.
Users without sign in should be able to leave comments to review the images too.
Likelihood to Recommend
Pixaby is excellent to provide beautiful free images. It's awesome to use if you want to make a commercial product with low costs. Pixaby is not so good in providing specific free images for some areas, for example, if you want a very specific image for something that involves some machines used in Molecular Biology or Med School.
Pixabay is a great royalty-free stock photo and video solution. Pixabay solves the problem of getting high-quality stock royalty-free images and videos. The best part about Pixabay is that it is free for everyone, thanks to the thousands of contributors sharing their captured images through their talent on the platform. Most photos and videos under the Pixabay license allow commercial use without attribution, so you can use the images and videos for your business for marketing, sales, and printing, etc.
Pros
Pixabay License: Pixabay has its own license which allows the use of the content for commercial and personal use without any attribution. However, attribution supports the talented creators behind the content.
Pricing: Pixabay is completely free for everyone.
High-resolution: Photos and videos on Pixabay are of high resolution, especially several videos in 4K, which makes them perfect to use in bigger projects.
Cons
Currently, the GIF section listed on the main menu of Pixabay does not have any content, so adding GIFs for viewing and downloading to the section is required.
Likelihood to Recommend
Pixabay is well-suited and appropriate for the below-listed scenarios: 1. Businesses/Individuals looking for high-quality stock photos and videos that are royalty-free, available for commercial use as well (such as using for printing merchandise and selling it), and in high resolution.
Pixabay does have a huge collection of photos, videos, illustrations, etc. there might be some changes when you can not find the exact kind of content you are looking for at that time.
