Adobe Stock pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives
Adobe Stock (stock.adobe.com) is a stock media library. Monthly subscriptions that buy a set number of credits (1 per standard image, 8 per HD video), with an unlimited top tier and one-time credit packs.. No free plan.
What Adobe Stock costs
- Creator, 10/mo: $49.99/mo (Cheapest 10-credit individual plan: 10 standard assets a month at 1 credit each. Uses the month-to-month (cancel-anytime) price of US$49.99 because the plans page data holds month-to-month offers for 10 credits at US$49.99 and US$59.99 (lower one used; plan names not confirmed on a rendered page). The rendered annual-commitment price is US$29.99/mo billed monthly (US$359.88/yr). Assumes a 1-credit standard asset meets the 1,920 px minimum.)
- Business, 10/mo: $49.99/mo (Standard licence on this plan covers company website and social use, and ad use under a 500,000 expected-viewer cap (per a licence table in the page source; tier not confirmed), so business equals creator.)
Plan compared: Individuals plan (10 credits/mo, standard licence), month-to-month price. Prices are the monthly cost, on month-to-month billing, of the cheapest plan that lets one person license at least 10 downloads a month of the product's main asset type from its full catalogue. 'Business' additionally requires a licence that covers a company's own website, social channels and paid online ads.
What Adobe Stock does
Core: Stock photo library, Stock video footage, Creative app plugins.
Important: Vectors & illustrations, Video & design templates (partly), Unlimited downloads, Indemnity & extended licences, AI generation tools, Team plans & licence management (partly).
Also has: Icon library (partly), Royalty-free music (partly), Sound effects library (partly), 3D & animated assets (partly), Editorial & news content (partly), Developer API (partly), Mobile apps (partly).
Adobe Stock price hikes
- Adobe Stock raised its $29.99 plan to $39.99 with AI edits · Apr 1, 2026
PricingSaaS logs the headline annual-commitment price rising from US$29.99 to US$39.99 a month (+33%) as AI image-editing tools were bundled in. The plan was renamed 'Adobe Stock with AI edits' on 2026-04-11 and reverted on 2026-04-17.
Cheaper alternatives to Adobe Stock
At 1 creator, 10 downloads a month, Adobe Stock costs $49.99/mo. 3 stock media librarys cost less:
- Freepik: $20/mo (Premium plan, 1 user, month-to-month price), covers 68% of Adobe Stock; missing or partial: Stock video footage (partly), Creative app plugins (partly), Unlimited downloads, Indemnity & extended licences (partly), Royalty-free music
- Shutterstock: $25/mo (Image downloads entry plan at $25/mo billed annually), covers 88% of Adobe Stock; missing or partial: Creative app plugins (partly), Indemnity & extended licences (partly), Mobile apps
- Envato: $39/mo (Core plan on month-to-month billing, the cheapest paid plan with unlimited downloads), covers 64% of Adobe Stock; missing or partial: Stock photo library (partly), Stock video footage (partly), Creative app plugins, Vectors & illustrations (partly), Indemnity & extended licences (partly)
Adobe Stock alternatives: 3 cheaper stock media librarys compared, at every size.
Every change we logged
- Apr 17, 2026 · Price cut: PricingSaaS logs the plan returning to US$29.99 a month with AI editing removed, reversing the April increase and restoring the name 'Adobe Stock'.
- Apr 1, 2026 · Price increase: PricingSaaS logs the headline annual-commitment price rising from US$29.99 to US$39.99 a month (+33%) as AI image-editing tools were bundled in. The plan was renamed 'Adobe Stock with AI edits' on 2026-04-11 and reverted on 2026-04-17.
Sources
Pricing page: stock.adobe.com/plans. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. Annual-commitment prices come from the plans page, and PricingSaaS agrees on the US$29.99 tier. The creator point is the cheapest month-to-month 10-credit offer in the page's plan data, which the rendered page does not show; PricingSaaS's unquantified 2026-07-03 AI Studio cut (listed at US$34.99, against US$39.99 live) is not recorded.