16 Best Stock Video Sites for High-Quality Stock Footage for 2025
Stock video sites are your best option when it comes to creating engaging videos for the web, editorial content or even cinematic transitions for film.
In this post, we have a variety of different stock video sites to share with you.
Each one offers videos for different creative purposes as well as different ways to pay for stock footage.
VideoHive and Envato Elements are both stock video sites from Envato.
The former allows you to purchase stock footage on a per-video basis. Envato Elements is a subscription-based service that offers unlimited downloads of millions of stock media.
Envato offers stock footage, motion graphics and video templates for After Effects, Adobe Premiere Pro, Final Cut Pro, Apple Motion and DaVinci Resolve.
Prices for VideoHive vary, but most videos are under $50.
Envato Elements costs $16.50/month, making it a much better deal if you need stock footage and video templates often. Discounts are available for students and teams.
Adobe Stock is a large library of stock media owned by the same company that makes Photoshop, Premiere Pro, After Effects and Illustrator.
Along with stock videos, the library also contains photos, illustrations, vectors, audio files, templates and plugins for Adobe applications, editorial media, fonts and 3D models.
This means it’s a great source for video templates for Premiere Pro, such as title sequences, overlay graphics and animations.
Prices for individual videos start at $79.99 per HD video but more than doubles for 4K resolution.
There are also four plans, the first of which starts at $29.99/month. This plan allows for three videos per month or 10 videos per month with an annual commitment.
Credit packs are available as well. 16 credits gets you two HD videos for $149.99. The more credits you buy, the higher the discount you receive.
Shutterstock is one of the most well-known providers of royalty-free stock images, but their massive library also offers a wide assortment of other media: footage, music, templates for social media and print, media meant for editorial use, 3D models, and various tools.
Pricing for stock videos starts at $65 per SD video, but there are other ways to pay as well.
Subscription plans start at $69/month or $49/month (with annual commitment) or $499/year for three videos per month.
You can also purchase “clip packs” for five, 10 or 25 videos. Prices start at $299 for five SD videos.
05. iStock
iStock is a large collection of stock media owned by Getty Images, known for their collection of editorial images.
Between the Getty Images and iStock brands, Getty Images owns one of the largest collections of stock images, footage, illustrations and music.
Like its competitors, iStock gives you a few different ways to pay for video clips.
Videos are either part of iStock’s Essentials or Signature collections. Essentials clips cost $60 or 6 credits each while Signature clips cost $170 or 18 credits each. This is regardless of resolution.
There’s one subscription plan that includes video downloads. Pricing for it starts at $199/month and allows for up to 10 downloads per month with rollovers included.
Pricing for credits start at $12 for 1 credit with discounts offered the more credits you purchase at a time.
Pond5 is a premium stock video site that also offers a large collection of additional stock media.
These are music, sound effects, templates for After Effects, photos, illustrations, PSD files and 3D models.
There are multiple ways to pay for stock videos. Buying on a per-video basis costs at least $25 per video with some costing $100 or more each.
You can also purchase a subscription at $199/month or $999/year. This allows for 10 downloads per month with unused downloads rolling over into the next month.
Alternatively, credit packs start at $250.
07. Pixabay
Pixabay is a large library featuring millions of free stock media, including footage, images, illustrations, vectors, music and sound effects.
All footage is royalty free, so the stock videos you find here are free to use for commercial purposes.
08. Pexels
Pexels is a large library of free stock media. They offer footage and images.
All of Pexels’ stock media is royalty-free, so you don’t need to worry about licensing.
09. Vimeo Stock
Vimeo Stock is a library of royalty-free stock footage offered by video hosting platform Vimeo.
Most videos on this site cost $79 for HD or $199 for 4K, though some cost over $499.
You’ll receive 20% discounts if you’re subscribed to one of Vimeo’s video hosting plans.
Some video clips can be found elsewhere. Fortunately, a simple filter option allows you to only show videos available exclusively on Vimeo.
10. Videezy
Videezy is a stock video site that offers an extensive library of stock footage.
They’re part of a family of websites that offer stock images, vectors and Photoshop brushes.
Videezy has four license types that dictate how you’re allowed to use the images you download. Most are either Standard or Pro.
You can use Standard videos in commercial projects, but you must provide attribution.
Pro videos do not require attribution, and the license removes ads that may appear in videos. Pro videos can be purchased with credits at $19 for 1 credit, $39 for 5 credits and $49 for 10 credits.
There are also licenses for Creative Commons and editorial use.
11. Filmsupply
Filmsupply is a leading provider of cinematic stock footage.
Their clips have been licensed by some of the biggest film studios in the world, including Warner Bros., 20th Century Fox, Netflix, Hulu and Amazon Studios.
Even so, you can license this site’s footage for something as simple as a YouTube video or a professional presentation.
Pricing for these license types starts at $199 per video.
Other license types, such as film or TV, require personalized quotes.
12. BBC Motion Gallery
BBC Motion Gallery is a stock footage site made available through a partnership between BBC and Getty Images.
It’s a collection of over 125,000 editorial video clips from the BBC archives, dating all the way back to the media organization’s first broadcast in 1922.
Categories of footage include natural history, travel and culture, news, science and history, arts and entertainment, and creative.
There’s also over a million hours of footage to choose from upon request.
The clips are exclusive, so expect to pay anywhere from $200 to $7,000+ for licenses depending on what you want to use the footage for.
13. 123RF
123RF is a stock media site that provides stock videos, photos, vectors and audio files.
The site has two license types, but the Extended license is mainly for photos. Most use-case scenarios for stock footage are covered under the Standard license.
Video clips cost 35 credits each regardless of resolution. You can purchase this exact amount of credits for $41.50.
Credit packs are also available. You’ll receive higher and higher discounts the more credits you buy.
14. ProVideoFactory
ProVideoFactory is a stock video site, featuring just over 200,000 clips.
The site’s videos are well shot with resolutions of up to 8K, but you may have trouble finding what you’re looking for given the size of its collection.
Fortunately, their subscription plan is quite affordable. For $19.99/month or $119/year, you get unlimited access to ProVideoFactory’s entire library of stock footage.
15. Artgrid
Artgrid is a stock video site that offers royalty-free stock footage. It’s one half of a pair of sites that offer stock footage and music/SFX samples.
The library isn’t as extensive as it could be, however, which means your searches may not yield the results you were looking for.
Even so, Artgrid specializes in offering high-quality, art-like footage perfect for prestigious films and videos. Their footage has a specific style that’s hard to find elsewhere.
All stock videos are only available as part of the service’s subscription plans. These start at $24.92/month or $299/year.
16. Dareful
Dareful is a free stock video site filled with royalty-free videos.
The library isn’t very extensive, however, and Dareful have partnered with Shutterstock to supplement searches that come up light or empty.
Final Thoughts
The stock video site you decide to go with mainly depends on the footage you need, what you need it for and your personal preferences as far as style goes.
Your best bet is to pick a few (or even all) of these sites and input your search query to see what comes up.
If you’re a video editor or producer, you’re better off choosing a subscription service as it’ll save you money in the long run.
Envato Elements is the most cost-effective stock video subscriptions by far as they offer plans that include unlimited video downloads with royalty-free licenses.
Pixabay and Pexels are also great contenders as they both offer free, royalty-free stock videos and accurate search results.
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I love Adobe Stock and Pixabay, and all are good for stock footage to create videos.