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Openverse

About 800M openly licensed images in one index: Flickr, Wikimedia Commons, museums and free stock sites. CC0, public domain and every CC licence, stated per image.

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Licence: Set per image
Pricing: Free
Direct download: Yes, straight from the source
Subjects: Nature & landscapes, Animals & wildlife, Cities & streets, Architecture & interiors, People & portraits, Food & drink, Objects & still life, Technology, Transport, Space & astronomy, Science & medicine, Art, History & archives, Backgrounds & textures
How it is searched: Official or public API
Images (counted November 4, 2026): 915,519,784

Biggest categories: Wikimedia Commons, Animal Diversity Web, Biodiversity Heritage Library, Brooklyn Museum, Cleveland Museum of Art, SpaceX, SVG Silh, Digitalt Museum, Thingiverse, World Register of Marine Species.

What Openverse is

Openverse (openverse.org), run by WordPress.org, indexes over 800 million openly licensed images from Flickr, Wikimedia Commons, museums and other sites, with the licence of each.

Best for

Creative Commons photos from Flickr and smaller collections that aren't searched directly here.

Licence and what it means for you

Set per image: CC0, public domain mark, CC BY, CC BY-SA and the non-commercial licences. Commercial-safe searches ask Openverse for commercial licences only.

How Image Asset Server searches it

Through the public Openverse API without a key (anonymous rate limits apply, so results are cached). It re-indexes other sources, so an image also found on Wikimedia Commons is shown once, from Commons.