The Pexels API enables programmatic access to the full Pexels content library, including photos, videos. All content is available free of charge, and you are welcome to use Pexels content for anything you'd like, as long as it is within our Guidelines. The Pexels API is a RESTful JSON API, and you can interact with it from any language or framework with a HTTP library. Alternately, Pexels maintains some official Client Libraries you can use.
Pexels provides high quality and completely free stock photos licensed under the Pexels license. All photos are nicely tagged, searchable and also easy to discover through our discover pages.
We have hundreds of thousands free stock photos and every day new high resolution photos will be added. All photos are hand-picked from photos uploaded by our users or sourced from free image websites.
Only free images from our community of photographers are added to our photo database. We constantly try to deliver as many high quality free stock photos as possible to the creatives who use our website.
Pexels is run by Bruno Joseph, Ingo Joseph and Daniel Frese. Bruno and Ingo co-founded Pexels together in 2014 and Daniel joined them in 2015.
We help millions of designers, writers, artists, programmers and other creators to get access to beautiful photos that they can use freely which empowers them to create amazing products, designs, stories, websites, apps, art and other work.