Shutterstock is a trusted site that offers high-quality, royalty-free images, vectors and video clips for a small monthly fee.
Download up to 750 photos each month and enjoy top quality photos, vectors (graphics/illustrations) you can use on your websites, blogs, presentations and articles.
Founded by John Oringer in 2003, the site has more than 40 million stock photos, illustrations videos, vectors and music tracks. Photographers can also sell their photos and videos on the site.
Shutterstock offers a free trial but if your needs grow, you can choose from the various plans available covering the standard license and the enhanced license. You can choose to avail of the 25-a-day subscription plan at $249 per month or the images on demand plan which starts at $49 for five images of all sizes.
If you’re a photographer or videographer, you may also want to contribute your images and videos to Shutterstock and sell them. The site serves more than 150 countries and has so far paid more than $200 million to its contributors. It’s free to sign up on the site.
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