Alternatives and competitors
Sites like Shutterstock
The 20 closest stock photography alternatives to Shutterstock, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 17 technologies behind it.
Looking for an alternative to Shutterstock? The closest matches are Dreamstime, Alamy and Vecteezy. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.
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01 · Entity
About Shutterstock
Shutterstock shutterstock.com
shutterstock.com
Wikidata: American stock photography, stock footage, stock music, and editing tools provider
Summary by Claude
Shutterstock licenses royalty-free stock photos, vector graphics, illustrations, video footage and music, and provides online image editing tools.
- Who it’s for
- Marketers, designers, publishers and businesses
- Business model
- Subscriptions and per-asset licensing fees
02 · Embedding space
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Shutterstock’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Shutterstock
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Shutterstock, thumbs down if it isn’t.
We can’t read shutterstock.com’s homepage (HTTP 403), so it’s compared on what Wikidata and Wikipedia say about it.
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Stock Photos & Images, Vectors, Video & Audio - Dreamstime
Find the perfect stock photos, images and vectors for your project. Quickly search over 377 million images including free and public domain images.
- Google Search Console
- Amazon Route 53
- Bing Webmaster Tools
- Google Ads conversion tracking
- Google Tag Manager
- HUMAN (PerimeterX)
Very close cos 0.957 - 02
British stock photography agency
Very close cos 0.952 - 03
Online marketplace where users can license stock photos, vector graphics, and stock footage
Very close cos 0.952 - 04
Royalty-free Images, Photo Stock, Video & Music | DepositPhotos
Royalty-free stock images at affordable prices on DepositPhotos. Download stock photos for commercial use. Pictures, videos, music for every topic.
Very close cos 0.951 - 05
Stock Images, Royalty-Free Images, Illustrations, Vectors and Videos - iStock
iStock has millions of exclusive stock photos, videos, vectors, and illustrations that are researched and shot by a diverse global community. © 2023 iStockphoto LP.
Very close cos 0.946 - 06
Royalty-Free Stock Photos, Creative Images & Vectors | News, Fashion, and Entertainment imagery - Getty Images
Discover Getty Images' unrivaled collection of royalty-free images to find the perfect stock photo, vector, or illustration that resonates with your customers.
Very close cos 0.943 - 07
Envato® | AI Tools and Unlimited Creative Assets
Create and customize content with AI tools and unlimited creative assets for professional and commercial use.
Very close cos 0.940 - 08
free online media library
Very close cos 0.939 - 09
Stock Photos, Vectors and Royalty Free Images from 123RF
Search and download from millions of HD stock photos, royalty free images, cliparts, vectors and illustrations
Very close cos 0.938 - 10
Checking your browser before accessing unsplash.com
website dedicated to sharing copyright-free photography under the Unsplash license
Very close cos 0.916 - 11
free online media library
Very close cos 0.909 - 12
photo sharing website
Very close cos 0.906 - 13
Unlimited photo hosting @iMGSRC.RU
Your free and unlimited host iMGSRC.RU presents Unlimited photo hosting
Very close cos 0.907 - 14
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database of icons
Very close cos 0.899 - 15
Adobe: Creative, marketing and document management solutions
Adobe is changing the world through digital experiences. We help our customers create, deliver and optimize content and applications.
Very close cos 0.897 - 16
Seeking Alpha | Stock Market Analysis & Tools for Investors
Join Seeking Alpha, the largest investing community in the world. Get stock market news and analysis, investing ideas, earnings calls, charts and portfolio analysis tools.
Very close cos 0.899 - 17
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stock photography site
Very close cos 0.895 - 18
Canva
online graphic design platform
Very close cos 0.894 - 19
paid image sharing, image hosting service, and online video platform
Very close cos 0.894 - 20
tidal.com
subscription-based music streaming service
Close cos 0.893
Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to shutterstock.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Shutterstock uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.
04 · Fingerprints
Technology
What Shutterstock is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.
Built with
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust TXT onetrust-domain-verification=f7acfe615ec343eeb1d812ca09165a48
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=b35adcb1d91d94699ec1de23631872c0e4df024e15686e6fb…
- Security
- DataDome header x-datadome: protected
- CDN
- Amazon CloudFront header x-amz-cf-id: IxI7ydA6WjkOKUeosxVkrVVr09fSdjI1ww7eZkRb7gvueT52rqstfw==
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms49836191
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-231.awsdns-28.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=mPQtvq6REj40T5tn
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=xnSgqTwgP81yyzKQEzb87CY1/U+sIbPROxNSG7T…
- DocuSign TXT docusign=93b1131d-22fa-467a-ac46-27e8a3ed4e34
- GlobalSign TXT globalsign-domain-verification=8frsHcE2ag-0ccaaP5BTpPmUJC8ob8pdjDQchf…
- Google Search Console TXT google-site-verification=WvdE_Kl6RWC4uUxKPVGw1Rgw2AW22mvF-vfPfGN-mJM
- Meta Business Suite TXT facebook-domain-verification=lrocxr79ofwtm82chaj8h4luuqpms7
- Miro TXT miro-verification=6836d18a57e57b86b38ad342b7a099736f1541e8
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-btq9bkTqojCc09hLIoBq5Wz7
- Yandex Webmaster TXT yandex-verification: 021e3a8511fca527
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_ZqCIeMn-RJ-laQ4kBcAyCw
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Shutterstock adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 15/20
- Amazon Route 53 10/20
- Meta Business Suite 9/20
- Atlassian 9/20
- Apple Business 7/20
- Microsoft 365 7/20
- Stripe 7/20
- Cloudflare · not on shutterstock.com 6/20
- OpenAI 6/20
- Zendesk · not on shutterstock.com 5/20
- GlobalSign 5/20
- Amazon SES · not on shutterstock.com 5/20
- Google Tag Manager · not on shutterstock.com 4/20
- Mimecast · not on shutterstock.com 4/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on shutterstock.com 4/20