2 to 4 cents per image
Most of Freepik's roughly 200 million image archive licensed to two large tech companies
Dated 6 Apr 2024Source checked 11 Oct 2026Quote found on its page again 17 Oct 2026Basis: reported
In the source's own words
“to two major technology companies for 2 to 4 cents per image.”
Where it was read
The Decoder (summarising Reuters), checked 11 Oct 2026
Also read from the same source
- Short-form videos licensed for AI training (Defined.ai)
- Longer films and professional video (Defined.ai's quoted rate)
- Images of nudity, which need special handling (Defined.ai)
- Shutterstock image-library licences to large tech buyers
- Images sold through a data marketplace (Defined.ai's quoted rate)
- General text sold through a data marketplace (Defined.ai's quoted rate)
Figures it counts in
- $0.02 to $0.25 an imageThe valuation's price for everyday images
- 100xHow much more a curated image fetched than a bulk stock image
- 8.7 orders of magnitudeOrders of magnitude between the smallest and the largest price in the prices guide
- $0.063 per imageImages, sales that happened, per image
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