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Wikimedia Commons

Free media library of millions of images, sounds and videos, each with its licence and author stated.

Completely free
the web

Direct link to the official website.

Geographic availability: No geographic restriction found in our sources; availability is not checked country by country.

Technical details

Pricing: Completely freeconfirmed by Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms), Openverse
Excerpt from commons.wikimedia.org, read on 6 November 2026
mentaries petscan statistics wikimap locator tool kml file search depicted if you are coming here looking for free images, you should also look at category:gfdl and category:public domain . this category is a copyright status category for media files on commons published under creative comm Open the page
Content licence: not documented
Open source: not documented
Commercial use: With conditionsconfirmed by Openverse
Account required: not documented
Credit card required: Noconfirmed by Openverse
Watermark: not documented
Ads: not documented
Platforms: the webEstablished by the web: Openverse

Replaces

Shutterstock / Adobe Stock

Overview

Wikimedia Commons is an e-book library, available on the web.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information

“Free media library of millions of images, sounds and videos, each with its licence and author stated.” — official page, 10 November 2026

At a glance

Wikimedia Commons is completely free: no known feature is locked behind a paid plan.

Its licence could not be established at the source: check the terms on the official website.

Licences vary from one work to another: check each file’s licence.

88,962,441 works indexed by Openverse.

Plans and conditions

Free content: the free library can be used without paying, under the publisher’s licence.

Sources and checks

Facts collected from Official plan pages (pricing, licence, terms) (limits, free status) — 6 November 2026
Facts collected from Openverse (credit card, limits, free status, platforms, commercial use) — 5 November 2026
Last technical check: 5 November 2026
Description from commons.wikimedia.org — Résumé éditorial LicitPro

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