iStock
Stock images and videos with included legal protection across subscription tiers
- Also known as
- istock
Available worldwide · Popular in: GB
What is iStock?
iStock is a curated library of professional photography, video clips, and music tracks available via subscription. All licenses include legal protection guarantees, with multiple subscription tiers offering varying download allowances that can rollover monthly on annual plans.
iStock pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
From £19/month with free weekly/monthly content available. Annual subscriptions include rollover downloads. Credits option available for one-off purchases.
Basic
Images at lowest tier pricing with standard license
- downloads_per_month
- 10-250
- Access to images
- Lowest prices on images
- Single user license with legal protection up to $10,000
- Download rollover (up to 250 on annual plans)
- Supported plugins (Dropbox, Sketch)
Premium
All images, videos, and music in one plan
- downloads_per_month
- 10-750
- All images, videos, and music tracks
- Lowest prices on videos
- Single user license with legal protection up to $10,000
- Download rollover (up to 250 on annual plans)
- Supported plugins (Dropbox, Sketch)
Premium + Video
Studio-quality 4K video content with premium exclusive clips
- downloads_per_month
- 10-750
- Studio-quality 4K footage
- Exclusive premium video clips
- All images, videos, and music
- Single user license with legal protection up to $10,000
- Download rollover (up to 250 on annual plans)
- Supported plugins (Dropbox, Sketch)
Add-ons
- Multi-user license
- Extended legal protection rider
- Film & TV Rider
- Credits (supplementary)6 credits per essentials_video + 18 credits per signature_video
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (2)
Independently observed- Dropbox
- Sketch
iStock alternatives
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Compare iStock
Side by side against other stock photos, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for iStock, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing transparency | 100 | 0.08 | 8.4 | ✓ |
| Price level | 50 | 0.05 | 2.6 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 14 | 0.04 | 0.6 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
| Capabilities | 0 | 0.05 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 0 | 0.07 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
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Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.