Best Unlimited Stock Footage Subscriptions

Envato Elements has the largest collection of stock videos (3.1 million) among unlimited stock footage subscriptions and is also one of the cheapest. Individuals can get it for between $16.50 and $39.00 per month, while students get a 35% discount, so they pay only $11.00 per month. You can also use the free trial, which lasts for 7 days.

The Envato Elements License permits commercial use, but you must license creative assets for each use separately, even if you use the same asset twice. This means that after you cancel the subscription, you may not use the downloaded assets for new projects, but you may keep using them in the existing projects.

We recommend Envato Elements to anyone who needs a lot of videos, images, music, and other creative content. It’s also ideal for freelancers looking for an inexpensive, straightforward, high-quality source of creative content and mockup generators. For $7.47/month, you get unlimited downloads.

Artgrid offers the highest video quality of all the unlimited stock footage sites we tested and is therefore the best stock video subscription. It is also used by many famous YouTubers, such as Peter McKinnon. The video quality sets Artgrid apart from other stock footage providers. Their videos are technically excellent, impactful, and add a lot of value to your projects because their quality is immediately recognizable.

Artgrid offers three subscriptions: Junior, Creator, and Pro. The Junior subscription ($19.99/month) is ideal for simple video projects as you’ve access to HD clips, H.264 format, and tiered footage. The Creator subscription ($29.99/month) is best for freelancers, client work, and social media. It gives you 4K and 8K clips, ProRes/DNxHR, and graded footage. The Pro subscription ($49.92/month) is a must for commercials and broadcasts, as you also get RAW / LOG clips in addition to the Creator subscription.

All plans include lifetime use (royalty-free license), cover all platforms worldwide, and even support YouTube monetization, so you don’t have to worry about facing demonetization penalties.

If you need music and sound effects too, you’ll need to purchase a separate subscription from Artgrid’s sister company, Artlist. Subscriptions there cost from $9.99 to $16.60 per month and support all platforms and monetization, just like on Artgrid.

Thanks to the variety of subscription plans, Artgrid is an excellent source of footage for amateurs, freelancers, and professionals. All plans allow YouTube monetization and cover all platforms, meaning it’s also great for streamers and YouTubers.

Unlike other stock footage sites, Videvo offers free stock videos in addition to premium clips. More than 18K videos are free to use with attribution to the author and/or Videvo. If you want to avoid giving credit, you have to get a premium plan, like Videvo Plus. The video quality is satisfactory, with even pretty specific topics covered. However, sometimes finding a quality free video is not possible. In this case, you would need to resort to the premium plans.

Very affordable plans set Videvo apart from other stock footage sites. The monthly Videvo Lite plan costs $5/mo (5 videos), and the annual Videvo Plus costs $12/mo (unlimited downloads). The yearly plans represent the best value given that the downloads are fully unlimited. Videvo Pro in particular, is a one-stop creative destination for unlimited stock footage, motion graphics, templates, music, and audio, all for $240/year. Premium downloads are licensed under a royalty-free license, allowing for perpetual use, even in commercial projects. However, content labeled “Editorial use only”, may be used for non-commercial purposes only.

Due to affordable pricing but lower video quality and selection, Videvo is the best for amateurs and freelancers on a low budget.

Even the best video editors in the world use Storyblocks. First, the unlimited downloads allow them to test out different clips. Otherwise, you have to buy the videos before trying them. Adobe, with Adobe Stock integration in the Creative Cloud, is the exception. But, it’s more expensive and doesn’t offer unlimited downloads.

Second, the high quality and quantity of videos ensure that you will always be able to find what you need for any project. As a result, Storyblocks proves useful for many video editors who lack their own videos. Unlimited downloads give you the ability to download videos without paying attention to the quotas.

Lastly, nobody else offers footage, music, After Effects, Adobe Premiere templates, and images in one inexpensive plan.

• Access to 1 million+ premium, royalty-free video, audio, and image assets.
• Flexible plans, including monthly and yearly subscription options.
• A powerful, easy-to-use, online video editing tool that lets you create more.
• Access to Storyblocks’ unique data and insights helps you curate the right content for your audience.
• One plan for videos, music, After Effects, and Video Maker.
• The best ratio between price and video quality and quantity.
• Trusted by the world’s best video editors.

Storytape divides all videos into scenes. For example, “Gloomy Morning Mountains” contains 77 clips, and they all look alike. That way, you can get several high-quality videos with a specific motive. However, that feature makes browsing for videos rather annoying. Even when you enter a search phrase, you need to open every scene individually to see the videos. The slow website makes matters even worse.

Moreover, the search doesn’t work as intended. For example, the phrase “cat” returns four scenes: “Cats At Home”, “Dog Playing in Backyard”, “Young Woman On Cell Phone”, and “Small Dog In Apartment”. Only one out of four is relevant. For $199/month, you get unlimited downloads of 4K and 1080p videos and After Effects templates. Compared to Storyblocks, you pay 10x more, but you get 20x fewer videos.

• Videos are divided into scenes;
• The website is super-slow, and the search doesn’t work properly;
• Plans are expensive.

FilmHERO‘s library collection contains only 12K videos. Although that sounds like a lot, it isn’t because the options on any given topic are scarce. A library needs at least 100,000 videos for a sufficient variety. FilmHERO offers three purchasing options: one on-demand pack and two subscription plans. The best price per video is available with the yearly subscription plan. While it costs only $15, you only get 12,000 stock videos. In comparison, you get more than 1 million videos for $20. I tried searching for footage of a cat. And the results contained eight collections of couples and one collection of 10 cat videos.

• Cheap plans;
• Small number of videos and poor video variety.

Provideo Factory is the cheapest unlimited download option on this list. But it’s not at the top. Here’s why: The videos are just not good. From a technical standpoint, they’re okay. But the artistic value is not there. A large portion of videos looks like an amateur shot them. Also, the search engine does not work because it searches based on word resemblance instead of meaning. For example, searching for a “cat” returns videos of cats (duh), Xmas, cars, camels, cabs, and hats.

• The cheapest option;
• Video quality is mediocre at best;
• Searching is useless.