Shutterstock pricing (2026)

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Last verified 2026-09-26. STALE marks a plan we have not re-checked at its source in over 30 days. Every plan above is marked — we flag rather than silently retain. Official shutterstock.com/pricing and /subscribe returned HTTP 403 to an automated read, so US 2026 USD rates were taken from the StockPhotoSecrets and Photutorial 2026 Shutterstock pricing guides. The monthly price recorded here is the annual-billed-monthly rate; month-to-month and annual-upfront prices are in notes. Cross-checked against photutorial.com.

Price changes

Tracked since June 2026. No change record has cleared two sources yet, so nothing is published on the wire.

Corrections to this record

Changes we made to our own record of Shutterstock, newest first: a figure read again on the vendor's page, a plan it no longer lists, a note. None of them is a price change by Shutterstock. Every correction on the site is in the corrections log.

• 2026-09-09

  10 Images / month. The recorded monthly price was $29, the annual-billed rate, in a field this dataset defines as the month-to-month price. The row's own notes name both figures and say which is which, so the correct value was already inside the record: the month-to-month price is $49. Re-based to it, with the annual discount set to this plan's own saving of 41% (it was unrecorded, though both rates are published). Found by a corpus-wide scan on 2026-09-09 for the same error four call-tracking vendors carried, and confirmed against this row's own notes rather than a fresh read; the source date is therefore unchanged. Judged individually: The note names all three prices for one and the same 10-download allowance, so the comparison is like-for-like: $49/mo month-to-month is this plan's own price, not a neighbouring tier's (the next tier up, 50 Images / month, is $99 contract / $125 month-to-month). The row holds $29, the 12-month-contract rate. $49 is plainly not the annual total either — the note records that separately as $299/yea

• 2026-09-09

  50 Images / month. The recorded monthly price was $99, the annual-billed rate, in a field this dataset defines as the month-to-month price. The row's own notes name both figures and say which is which, so the correct value was already inside the record: the month-to-month price is $125. Re-based to it, with the annual discount set to this plan's own saving of 21% (it was unrecorded, though both rates are published). Found by a corpus-wide scan on 2026-09-09 for the same error four call-tracking vendors carried, and confirmed against this row's own notes rather than a fresh read; the source date is therefore unchanged. Judged individually: Same 50-download allowance across both figures, so like-for-like. The row holds the 12-month-contract rate; $125 is the month-to-month rate for this same tier and matches no sibling (10 Images is 29/49, 350 Images is 169/199). $125 is not an annual total; the note books that separately as $979/year paid upfront. The annual discount is not recorded and should be 21 ((125-99)/125 = 20.8%).

• 2026-09-09

  350 Images / month. The recorded monthly price was $169, the annual-billed rate, in a field this dataset defines as the month-to-month price. The row's own notes name both figures and say which is which, so the correct value was already inside the record: the month-to-month price is $199. Re-based to it, with the annual discount set to this plan's own saving of 15% (it was unrecorded, though both rates are published). Found by a corpus-wide scan on 2026-09-09 for the same error four call-tracking vendors carried, and confirmed against this row's own notes rather than a fresh read; the source date is therefore unchanged. Judged individually: Like-for-like at 350 downloads: the note gives the contract rate the row holds and the month-to-month rate for the same allowance. One caution worth naming — $199 is also the 750 Images / month row's held figure — but that row's own note reads '$199/mo on a 12-month contract; $249/mo month-to-month', i.e. $199 is 750's contract rate and 350's month-to-month rate, two genuinely separate published p

• 2026-09-09

  750 Images / month. The recorded monthly price was $199, the annual-billed rate, in a field this dataset defines as the month-to-month price. The row's own notes name both figures and say which is which, so the correct value was already inside the record: the month-to-month price is $249. Re-based to it, with the annual discount set to this plan's own saving of 20% (it was unrecorded, though both rates are published). Found by a corpus-wide scan on 2026-09-09 for the same error four call-tracking vendors carried, and confirmed against this row's own notes rather than a fresh read; the source date is therefore unchanged. Judged individually: Like-for-like at 750 downloads. The row holds the 12-month-contract rate; $249 is the month-to-month rate for the same allowance and appears in no sibling row. Not an annual total — the note records $1,999/year paid upfront separately. The annual discount is not recorded and should be 20 ((249-199)/249 = 20.1%).

• 2026-09-09

  5 Videos / month. The recorded monthly price was $99, the annual-billed rate, in a field this dataset defines as the month-to-month price. The row's own notes name both figures and say which is which, so the correct value was already inside the record: the month-to-month price is $189. Re-based to it, with the annual discount set to this plan's own saving of 48% (it was unrecorded, though both rates are published). Found by a corpus-wide scan on 2026-09-09 for the same error four call-tracking vendors carried, and confirmed against this row's own notes rather than a fresh read; the source date is therefore unchanged. Judged individually: Like-for-like on the same 5 HD/4K clip allowance: contract $99 (what the row holds) versus month-to-month $189. $189 belongs to no sibling — the image tiers top out at $249 month-to-month and the music tier is $69 — and it is not an annual total, which the note books as $949/year. Separately worth flagging for a later pass, though it does not affect this verdict: the note's own parenthetical '$949

• 2026-09-09

  Music & Sound Effects (Unlimited). The recorded monthly price was $49, the annual-billed rate, in a field this dataset defines as the month-to-month price. The row's own notes name both figures and say which is which, so the correct value was already inside the record: the month-to-month price is $69. Re-based to it, with the annual discount set to this plan's own saving of 29% (it was unrecorded, though both rates are published). Found by a corpus-wide scan on 2026-09-09 for the same error four call-tracking vendors carried, and confirmed against this row's own notes rather than a fresh read; the source date is therefore unchanged. Judged individually: Unlimited allowance on both sides of the comparison, so like-for-like by construction. The row holds the 12-month-contract rate and $69 is the month-to-month rate for the same plan; no sibling carries $69. Not an annual total ($499/year is recorded separately). Same caveat as the 5 Videos row and again not affecting this verdict: '$499/year ($35/mo equivalent)' does not divide ($499/12 = $41.58),

Capabilities

Integrations: Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Adobe InDesign, Adobe Premiere Pro, WordPress plugin, Microsoft PowerPoint, Sketch plugin, Chrome extension.

Key features: 503 million royalty-free images, 40 million videos, 43,400+ music tracks; AI Image Generator (multi-model, commercially licensed output); Creative Flow browser-based design editor; Standard license includes $10,000 legal indemnification; Enhanced license $250,000; Free account: 3 royalty-free photos/month and 40 free videos (no paid plan required).

Plan limits: Standard license: video views capped at 500,000; Standard license indemnification: $10,000; Enhanced license: $250,000; Unused monthly downloads do not roll over on subscription plans; AI Video Generator output not covered by standard royalty-free license.

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