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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.

Reviews

39 Reviews

High Quality Images for Any Need

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.
VU
Verified User
Partner in Marketing (1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Pixabay
10 years of experience

Pixabay - Great Pix, Great Value

Rating: 6 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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
VU
Verified User
Director in Marketing (1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Pixabay
4 years of experience

A mid-range software of this type

Rating: 9 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.
RL
Rory Larkin
Development chef in Sales at Lactalis (10,001+ employees)
Vetted Review
Pixabay
2 years of experience

Pixabay is great for marketers who would like to save money on stock images.

Rating: 7 out of 10

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.
JM
Jordan Marturano
Marketing Director in Marketing at ProGrin Dental (51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Pixabay
2 years of experience
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Great Free resource.

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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)
Vetted Review
Pixabay
2 years of experience

Great for quick, free photos

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.
VU
Verified User
Director in Corporate (1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Pixabay
2 years of experience

The perfect platform, with the perfect images and the easier way to save money.

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

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.
GR
Giovana Ramos
Biologist at Universidade Federal de São Paulo (1001-5000 employees)
Vetted Review
Pixabay
3 years of experience

Pixabay : Get All type of assets

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

1. Pixabay is great for getting royalty-free images for every use.
2. There are illustrations for every use case like e-commerce and doctors.
3. Music is also available to use in promo videos and tests.
4. 4k Videos can be used for designing UI, apps, and websites.
5. We can use all the assets everywhere.

Pros

  • Image assets
  • Videos
  • illustrations
  • Music

Cons

  • Search
  • Filter
  • Explore
  • category or group for assets

Likelihood to Recommend

1. When we need royalty-free images, videos, music, illustrations, or vectors.
2. To show our assets like images, and video music.
3. To Explore the available images or videos or music.
4. It is not well suited if want a set like a set of illustrations for doctor-patient UI.
5. Not available any customisations in illustrations.
BB
Biswajit Behera
Principal Software Development Engineer in Engineering at Cookytech Technologies Pvt Ltd (1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Pixabay
1 year of experience
Verified on LinkedIn

Perfect stock photo source for small businesses and nonprofits

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

As a designer and marketer that serves several small businesses and nonprofits, I often have a limited budget when it comes to stock assets. Pixabay has been absolutely AMAZING for this.

Honestly, I would say that I find exactly what I need 95% of the time searching for free images on Pixabay. And their images have full commercial licenses, which eliminates all the extra work of determining how many times the image will be reproduced and how that affects the licensing tier.

Pros

  • Cost - as images are free and in the public domain
  • Premium recommendations for commercial stock photos
  • VERY easy license terms

Cons

  • Would like to see more premium options when there are few free results
  • Search function could be improved; I often have to try multiple keywords to find the perfect image
  • Would like more visible tags to see the geographic location images, as I often use these for locally-focused flyers for events around the country.

Likelihood to Recommend

This is perfect for any individual or organization that's working on a budget. You'll get stock photos that, while there's a more limited selection than the usual paid sites (Getty, iStock, etc.), are often just as high-quality. For smaller businesses and nonprofits where every dollar counts, I've found myself leaning on Pixabay quite a bit for stock images and, from time to time, will end up buying one of the linked commercial images when Pixabay doesn't have what I need. However, if you have a large budget for stock images, Pixabay will likely not be your best choice, as the paid services offer generous discounts for bulk credit purchases.
HL
Hayden LeMaster
Owner/Operator in Professional Services at LeMaster Graphics (1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Pixabay
5 years of experience

Pyxabay - Choose the best free image platform

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Pixabay is the most portal for images, videos, and photos. I use this for several years for my project, internet website, and content creation. I suggest using this portal, to use immediately photos in several formats. Very useful is the video, also in several formats ready to use for your website, blog, and creation. There is also an app, that you can use directly from your smartphone. This is my website where you can see several images that I download from Pixabay. A tip that comes to mind, it would be useful to have images associated with tags and more free images related to digital education. But I realize that it is too tied to my work but it would make the research more targeted and punctual.

Pros

  • Quick to find pictures
  • A huge database
  • Professional content

Cons

  • Introduce tags

Likelihood to Recommend

If you create content on social media or websites or you are a blogger, Pixabay is fundamental and cannot be missed.
CL
Crismer La Pignola
Senior Software Engineer in Information Technology at Crismer (1-10 employees)
Vetted Review
Pixabay
5 years of experience
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