123RF
Depends
Confidence: Medium
Buy if you need volume royalty-free images cheaply and will use a unique password.
Comparison
123RF and Depositphotos both land on Depends.
Buy if you need volume royalty-free images cheaply and will use a unique password.
Buy if your team downloads many licensed images monthly and wants photos, video, and music from one library.
| Compare | 123RF | Depositphotos |
|---|---|---|
| Verdict | Depends | Depends |
| Best for | Bloggers and solo marketers on a budget | Teams needing constant fresh imagery |
| Who it's not for | Security-conscious enterprises vetting vendors | Occasional users needing one or two images |
| Privacy | Suffered a 2020 breach exposing 8.3M user records; no public security page found.⁶ | No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed. |
| Support quality | Review sentiment not extractable from snippets | License-flag complaints; BBB disputes listed |
| Public sentiment | Users rate it 4.4/5 on G2, but independent reviewers and Trustpilot threads raise service and trust concerns.¹ | Buyers like the library breadth and pricing, but Reddit threads flag copyright-claim headaches and contributors report low earnings.13 |
| Biggest gotcha | 2020 breach leaked 8.3M accounts . use a unique password, never reuse old credentials⁶ | r/selfpublish users report infringement flags even after buying licensed images . keep purchase receipts.15 |