The best free stock photos source
July 14, 2022

The best free stock photos source

David Mynář | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User

Overall Satisfaction with Pexels

As a full-service marketing agency, we produce marketing and web content, which needs a lot of variable photos on a tight budget set by our clients. We use Pexels as a source of high-quality stock photos for illustration purposes. The majority of the photos are completely free of charge and fully sufficient for our purpose.
  • Quantity of photos
  • Quality and variety
  • User interface and search engine
  • Limited database for expert topics (e.g. dermatology).
  • No option to pay for premium content - affiliates to iStock.
  • Free stock photos
  • Huge database of photos
  • Good search engine
  • Positive - thousands of dollars in savings for stock photos.
  • Higher ROI for campaigns with attractive and natural photos.
Pexels have by far the biggest database for our needs, 9 out of 10 pictures we find is from Pexels.

Do you think Pexels delivers good value for the price?

Yes

Are you happy with Pexels's feature set?

Yes

Did Pexels live up to sales and marketing promises?

Yes

Did implementation of Pexels go as expected?

Yes

Would you buy Pexels again?

Yes

It is very useful for general topics and natural-looking photos, on the other hand for very specific topics or local photography you will have to pay for overpriced photos from iStock, here Pexels is not sufficient. Overall, I can highly recommend for every topic to at least try the Pexels options.