123RF Review
One, two, three — royalty free! So cheerful like the childish rhyme — that's how you should read the name of 123RF. Does it sound funny to you? If it does, get ready to be surprised by this microstock, which has a gallery of more than 10.9 millions of royalty free images.
Images and photos can be purchased either on a single or on a subscription basis. To start with single purchases, you are required to refill your balance, after that you will receive credits (see "What are the credits and what are they for?") that can be spent throughout one year. A minimum payment constitutes $15, which is converted into 15 credits into your account. The minimum price of any small-scale image or photograph is 1 credit. If you need a larger version, you are free to purchase it for 2, 3, 4, 5 or 10 credits.
Just as it was the case with other stock photo agencies, 123RF features vector images in the bitmap format. All vector files of vector images have a fixed price of 5 credits.
123RF has one of the lowest credit prices on single purchases. For instance, you will be able to buy images for as low as $0.89 once your account balance reaches $50, which compares to $150-$500 on other microstocks. Customers who are not interested in big regular purchases will appreciate 123RF's loyalty towards them.
123RF's affordability to those who do not plan on spending too much is also true for subscription plans. This microstock has one of the lowest subscription prices, starting from $89. This price includes 150 royalty free images, each priced at $0.59 regardless of the size, daily limit is 5 images. Overall, 123RF has one of the best rates on subscription plans including a small number of images.
There is interesting bonus program for 123RF customers called "Rewards". For every dollar spent on buying credit package or subscription you can get one bonus RF point in average (for big subscription plans — little less).
When you get enough bonus RF points you can turn them into free credits for purchasing images. For 250 point you can get 50 free credits, for 400 points — 100 free credits, for 600 points — 160 free credits, etc. The more points you collect — the more free credits you can get when converting collected points.
To register on 123RF click this link.
Сomments
I love the varieties of their images and their prices are really affordable. The entire website is very user friendly too.
Just get an Ipad2 for buying their credits. Not bad at all.
Impressed with it wide selection of images and great prices! Always my first choice to use in my project.
Be very careful when you register for the first time! You will receive an automatically generated email containing your user name and password! I'm very distressed to have my internet security compromised.
Vast image gallery and reasonable prices. It's good. And I think it's good also when speaking about quality of content compared to its price. I guess 123rf gets 5 of 5 from me.
