# Free images in numbers

Counted 2026-11-04 (daily). Machine-readable: `GET https://image.shep.bot/v1/catalog` (same as https://image.shep.bot/catalog.json; daily history at https://image.shep.bot/catalog-history.json). "+" marks lower bounds.

## Totals

- Image listings: 140,352,833+ from 8 counted sources (a listing is one image record on its source)
- Free: 140,352,833+
- CC0 / public domain: 11,288
- Free with direct download links from the source: 140,352,833+
- Released in the last 30 days (sources that date their listings): 0

## By category

- History & archives: 1,133,163
- Icons & symbols: 464,444
- Art: 100,866

## By source

| Source | Listings | Free | Mostly | New (30 days) |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| [Openverse](https://openverse.org) | 915,519,784 | 915,519,784 | – | – |
| [Wikimedia Commons](https://commons.wikimedia.org) | 138,114,435 | 138,114,435 | – | – |
| [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/photos/) | 1,133,163 | 1,133,163 | History & archives 1,133,163 | – |
| [Iconify](https://iconify.design) | 464,444 | 464,444 | Icons & symbols 464,444 | – |
| [The Metropolitan Museum of Art](https://www.metmuseum.org) | 371,316 | 371,316 | – | – |
| [NASA Image and Video Library](https://images.nasa.gov) | 168,609+ | 168,609 | – | – |
| [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu) | 59,060 | 59,060 | Art 59,060 | – |
| [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://www.clevelandart.org) | 41,806 | 41,806 | Art 41,806 | – |

## Live usage

Searches, image views, downloads, MCP tool calls and per-source health change every minute: read them from `GET https://image.shep.bot/v1/stats` (schema `Stats` in https://image.shep.bot/openapi.json). Counts are anonymous totals: no search terms, IP addresses or user agents.

## Recently added sources

- [Adobe Stock](https://stock.adobe.com) (`adobestock`), added 2026-11-03
- [Alamy](https://www.alamy.com) (`alamy`), added 2026-11-03
- [Art Institute of Chicago](https://www.artic.edu) (`artic`), added 2026-11-03
- [Burst (Shopify)](https://burst.shopify.com) (`burst`), added 2026-11-03
- [Cleveland Museum of Art](https://www.clevelandart.org) (`cleveland`), added 2026-11-03
- [Europeana](https://www.europeana.eu) (`europeana`), added 2026-11-03

All sources: https://image.shep.bot/docs/sources.md

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Source: https://image.shep.bot/stats