Name |
Location / Owner / Hoster |
Description/Focus/Registration requirements |
 |
 |
 |
Other |
Registered users |
Storage Space Allowed Per User (standard) |
500px |
Canada / Amazon AWS (hosting) |
Free, registration required |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
ChromeOS |
13,000,000[1] |
7 uploads/week free plan, unlimited for paid accounts |
Dayviews |
Sweden / Dayviews AB (Bilddagboken AB) |
Free image hosting, registration required |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
1,291,500[2] |
Unlimited storage for 547×410 pix reduced images, also unlimited resolution and size for paying BDB HD users, costing approximately equivalent to $10.50 a year. |
DeviantArt |
United States |
Free image hosting, registration required. Subscription option provides additional services, and unlocks hidden features. Generally allows art-specific content only, as the service is not a generic image hosting service. |
|
|
|
|
44,000,000[3] |
Unlimited uploads with 30 MB limit per image for all account types. |
Dronestagram |
France |
Free, Dronestagram is a photo sharing community dedicated to drone photography. The site that has been described as "Instagram for drones", allows hobbyists to share their geo-referenced aerial photos and videos.[4] |
Yes |
No |
No |
|
30,000[5] |
|
Facebook |
United States |
|
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
1B |
Unlimited |
Flickr |
United States / SmugMug |
Photologging/hosting
Free registration/Pro service |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes[6] |
|
112,000,000 (May 2015)[7] |
Since 20 May 2013, 1TB free, 200MB per image, all photos display, original files downloadable. Starting January 8 of 2019, free accounts will be limited to 1000 images. The 1TB limit for Pro accounts will be removed.[8]
|
Fotki |
Estonia[9] / Fotki, Inc. |
Free registration photo sharing service and communication portal. |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
1,250,000[10] |
50MB for free, unlimited storage for $30/year.[11] |
Geograph Britain and Ireland |
United Kingdom / Geograph Project Limited |
Geo-located Geographical Images whole of Britain and Ireland, free, registration required |
|
|
|
|
12,634 |
Unlimited |
Google Photos |
|
Image and video hosting service. |
|
|
|
|
500,000,000[12] |
Files use a storage quota (15 GB free). |
Instagram |
United States / Facebook |
Photologging/Social networking . Registration is required. |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
100,000,000[13] |
Owned by Facebook |
Imgur |
United States |
Free image hosting, no registration required. |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
Unknown |
From 9 Feb 2015 all Imgur accounts are treated as Imgur pro accounts. No limits.[14] |
Ipernity |
France[15] |
Photo, video & blog sharing. Operated by the world's largest non-commercial photo sharing community, without profit interest, advertising, data trading or sale of any content. |
No |
Yes |
|
|
2,500,000[16] |
100 GB for €44,90/year (Standard), including unlimited uploads, geo-mapping, picture processing (PicMonkey) and the worlds best integrated translator (DeepL). Basic subscription with reduced limits and features for €22,90/year. |
jAlbum |
Sweden[17] |
Free hosting of galleries created with jAlbum software. |
Yes |
|
|
|
340,000[18] |
30MB of space given for free accounts, upgrade to 1GB space for €19/year. |
Photobucket |
United States |
Free registration service. As of July 2017, payment of $400/year required if hosted images are to be displayed on external sites[19] |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
50,000,000[20] |
With a free account, the user can use up to 10GB of bandwidth per month and 2GB storage. Unlimited free storage, 1MB per photo and 10 minutes per video (with image size restrictions). No size restrictions with Pro account. |
Pinterest |
United States |
Photo sharing/social networking |
|
|
|
|
11,700,000[21] |
Unknown |
Pixabay |
Germany[22] |
Sharing of high-quality public domain photos. Free to browse and download, registration required to contribute. Includes social networking capabilities. |
|
|
|
|
Unknown |
Unknown |
SecureTribe |
United States |
Free registration service |
Yes |
No |
No |
No |
13,800,000[23] |
Secure photo/video sharing |
Shutterfly |
United States |
Free registration service |
|
|
|
|
2,000,000[24] |
Free, unlimited picture storage. Shared Albums are limited to 1,000 photos. Full resolution downloads only possible via purchase of archive DVD. |
SmugMug |
United States |
Free search, subscription hosting |
|
|
|
|
315,000[25] |
"unlimited" storage |
Snapfish |
United States / Hewlett-Packard |
Free registration service, also provides services for Costco's online photo processing store. |
|
|
|
|
90,000,000[26] |
unlimited, pay per download |
Unsplash |
Montreal, Quebec / Unsplash, Inc.[27] |
Free, registration required to upload pictures. Unsplash license only. It's similar to CC0, but the user can't use the pictures to replicate a similar or competing service.[28] |
|
Yes [29] |
|
|
Unknown |
Unknown |
VK |
Russia |
Free, Russian social network |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
|
Unlimited |
Wikimedia Commons |
United States |
Free, Creative Commons license, Public domain[30] |
Yes |
Yes |
Yes |
|
|
Unlimited |