Pixieset Pricing 2026: Every Plan, Fee and Storage Limit

A family photographer on Pixieset's free plan sells a $300 print order from a gallery and gets a surprise in the payout: $45 of it is gone before the lab or Stripe has taken anything.

That is the 15% commission, and it is charged on the subtotal before any coupon, so a client who uses a 50% code still costs the photographer the full $45.

Pixieset pricing is full of small rules like that, because Pixieset is not one product with one price.

It is four ladders (Client Gallery, Website, Studio Manager and the bundled Suite) plus a high-volume Studio tier and three add-ons, and the number you actually pay depends on which rungs your storage, your video and your paperwork push you onto.

A client gallery platform is software that delivers, proofs and sells a photographer's finished images through private online galleries.

Pixieset is one such platform, and it prices its galleries (with a built-in print and download store), a portfolio website builder and studio management (invoices, contracts and booking) as separate apps, with a Suite plan that bundles them at a discount.

Every figure below was read on Pixieset's own pricing pages and help centre on 19 September 2026.

Full disclosure: Framekit is our product and it appears in the alternatives section at the end. We did not use Pixieset for this piece: we read its five pricing pages and fourteen help articles, priced three photographer scenarios with its published numbers, and linked every source so you can check the maths. Pixieset beats Framekit on print sales, lab fulfilment and studio management, and this page says so wherever it matters.

How This Pricing Guide Was Put Together

This guide was assembled from Pixieset's own published numbers, not from third-party summaries, because most pages ranking for this question list the five gallery plans and stop, missing the Suite maths, the video hours and the commission rules that decide what a working photographer pays over a year.

Read at the source. On 19 September 2026 we read Pixieset's Client Gallery pricing, the Website pricing, the Studio Manager pricing, the Suite pricing and the Studio plans, plus the help-centre articles on fees, video, downloads, tax and billing.

Video hours come from the plan data behind the pricing page, which lists them per plan.

Calculated. Annual totals, bundle discounts, the commission break-even and the three scenario costs are our arithmetic on those published prices. Every sum is shown so you can redo it with your own numbers.

Not included. We did not open an account, place an order or measure anything, so there are no speed claims and no screenshots of Pixieset here. We found no reliable public data on how many Pixieset users pay for each plan, so this guide does not guess.

The carried example throughout is a single $300 print order, and three photographers: a part-time portrait shooter, a full-time wedding photographer who also delivers highlight films, and a hybrid commercial shooter who needs a site and galleries but not contracts.

Pixieset Pricing by the Numbers

Six facts carry most of the weight when you price Pixieset for a year, and each is either printed on a Pixieset page or is simple arithmetic on one, so any of them can be checked in under a minute.

• 15% is the free plan's commission on store sales, charged on the order subtotal before discounts, taxes and shipping (Pixieset help centre). Every paid gallery or Suite plan is 0%.
• 3GB is the free plan's photo storage, and the free plan stores no video at all: video uploads need a paid Client Gallery or Suite plan.
• 37% is the Suite's headline saving. It checks out: gallery Pro ($24) plus Website Pro ($18) plus Studio Manager Pro ($18) is $60 a month billed yearly, against $38 for Suite Pro.
• $0 is what the studio manager effectively costs on Suite Starter, because gallery Plus ($16) plus Website Plus ($12) already equals the Suite Starter's $28.
• 2 hours of video on gallery Pro and 5 hours on gallery Ultimate, with more at $5 a month per extra hour.
• $640 a year in store sales is the point where the free plan's commission costs more than the Basic plan ($96 a year billed annually).

Pixieset Client Gallery Plans: Every Rung

Client Gallery is the product most photographers mean when they say Pixieset, and its five plans run from free to $50 a month, with storage, video hours and the commission rule changing at each step while the gallery features themselves barely move.

Source: pixieset.com/pricing, read 19 September 2026. Store and the Mobile Gallery App are included in every Client Gallery plan.

The jump that matters most is Free to Basic, and it is not about storage. Basic is the first plan that removes Pixieset branding, connects your own domain, drops the commission to 0% and allows full-resolution downloads.

Pixieset's download-size article says original-resolution files are only available on upgraded plans, so a free-plan client downloading "high resolution" gets 3600px on the long edge.

Basic to Plus is a pure storage jump: 10GB becomes 100GB, a tenfold increase for $8 more a month on yearly billing. That is the cheapest gigabyte on the ladder and the step most working portrait photographers end up on.

Plus to Pro buys 1TB, RAW uploads and 4K video. Pro to Ultimate buys "unlimited" photo storage, which carries an asterisk on the pricing page: RAW files are capped at 1,000GB. For a JPEG-delivery business, Ultimate really is unlimited.

For a studio that archives RAW files in its galleries, the cap is the same terabyte Pro already has.

The standout detailvideo is metered in hours, not gigabytes. Thirty minutes on Basic is one wedding highlight film and a teaser. Photographers who deliver short films every week will hit the video ceiling long before the photo ceiling, which is why the $5-per-hour video add-on exists.

Pixieset Website and Studio Manager Pricing

Pixieset's website builder and its studio manager are sold as their own apps with their own free plans, and each has two paid tiers at identical prices: $12 or $18 a month billed yearly, or $15 or $24 billed monthly.

Sources: Website pricing and Studio Manager pricing, read 19 September 2026.

Two limits on the free tiers are worth knowing before you build anything. The free website stops at 100 photos, which is a small portfolio rather than a site. The free studio manager allows 3 contracts in total, so a photographer who books a fourth client is already on Plus.

Website Plus removes the Pixieset banner but Pro is the plan that removes the badge, which is a distinction the pricing page draws in its own feature list. If a small "made with Pixieset" mark on your portfolio bothers you, the website really costs $18 a month, not $12.

Pixieset Suite Pricing: The Bundle Maths

In one linethe Pixieset Suite costs $28, $38 or $55 a month billed yearly, bundles galleries, website and studio manager, and saves between 28% and 37% against buying the three matching paid plans on their own.

Source: pixieset.com/pricing-suite, read 19 September 2026. The "separately" column and savings are our arithmetic on the individual pricing pages.

The Suite is where Pixieset's pricing becomes genuinely good value, and the reason is hidden in the Starter row. Gallery Plus plus Website Plus is already $28 a month. Suite Starter is also $28.

So if you were going to pay for a gallery and a website anyway, the studio manager (unlimited contracts, invoices, quotes and a booking page) comes free.

Suite Pro is the other quiet bargain. It gives 2,000GB of photo storage, twice the 1TB on gallery Pro, and 4 hours of 4K video against gallery Pro's 2 hours, for $14 more a month than gallery Pro alone.

A wedding photographer who would otherwise buy gallery Pro plus a video add-on is paying almost Suite money already.

The gotchathe Suite's monthly price is where the discount shrinks. Suite Pro billed monthly is $50, which is 32% more than the $38 yearly rate, and Pixieset's billing article says cancellations are not refunded. Pay yearly only when you are sure you are staying the year.

Studio Plans and Add-Ons: The Rest of the Price List

In one linebeyond the four ladders, Pixieset sells three gallery-only Studio plans from $48 to $96 a month for multi-terabyte archives, and three add-ons (extra video hours, extra marketing emails and a photo editor) that can quietly lift any plan's bill.

Sources: Studio plans and the add-on panel on the Client Gallery pricing page, read 19 September 2026.

The Studio plans look odd next to Ultimate, which offers unlimited photo storage for $40 a month while Studio 60 charges $48 for 2TB.

The difference is the controls, not the space: IP whitelisting, unlimited login sessions and no bandwidth restrictions are aimed at school, sports and volume studios with many staff logging in.

A solo photographer shopping on storage alone should compare Ultimate and Suite Ultimate first.

The video add-on is the one to budget for.

At $5 a month per hour, a wedding filmmaker on gallery Plus who stores 4 hours of film instead of the included 1 hour pays $15 a month extra, which takes the plan from $16 to $31 and past the $24 gallery Pro price that already includes 2 hours.

The 15% Free-Plan Commission, Worked on a $300 Order

In one linePixieset's free plan charges 15% on the order subtotal before discounts, so a $300 print order costs $45 in commission even if a coupon cut what the client paid, and $640 of yearly sales is the point where Basic becomes cheaper.

The commission is only one of three deductions Pixieset lists as "cost of goods sold" on a store order.

The lab's printing and shipping costs come off first when you use automatic fulfilment, then the payment processor's fee, then the commission on the free plan.

Here is the carried $300 order, with the lab cost left as a variable because it depends on the lab and the product.

Processing rate as quoted in Pixieset's cost-of-goods article; Stripe's rate varies by country. PayPal checkout costs more, at 3.49% plus $0.49 per the same article.

Two rules in Pixieset's fee FAQ make the free plan more expensive than 15% suggests.

First, a coupon that brings an order to zero still triggers the commission, because it is calculated before discounts.

Second, if a coupon or gift card pushes the amount the client paid below the lab cost, you cover the gap: Pixieset charges the card on your account for Stripe and offline orders, or your default PayPal funding source for PayPal orders.

The break-even test you can runmultiply last year's gallery store sales by 0.15. If the answer is above $96, Basic billed yearly would have cost you less than the commission. On sales of $640 a year the two are equal; on $2,000 of sales the free plan costs $300 against Basic's $96.

Yearly or Monthly Billing: What the Discount Is Worth

In one linePixieset's yearly billing saves between 15% and 25% depending on the plan rather than a flat rate, and because cancellations are not refunded, the yearly price is a commitment you make on day one.

Pixieset's subscription article, updated June 2026, describes yearly plans as offering "up to a 20% discount", and the pricing pages show a few plans slightly past that.

Either way, the biggest cash saving in the whole price list is Suite Pro, at $144 a year.

The same article sets the terms. Plans renew automatically on the card on file, switching mid-cycle is prorated and credited, and refunds are not issued for cancellations.

Yearly subscribers can choose to cancel at the end of the cycle instead of immediately, which is the setting to use if you are unsure.

What Pixieset Costs at Your Volume: Three Photographers

In one linepriced from Pixieset's published plans, a part-time portrait photographer pays about $96 to $240 a year, a wedding photographer with films and contracts about $456, and a hybrid commercial shooter about $336, with storage deciding when each moves up a rung.

The storage figures below are assumptions, stated so you can swap in your own: a portrait session delivered as 50 JPEGs at about 10MB each (0.5GB), a wedding as 700 JPEGs at about 12MB each (8.4GB), and a commercial job at about 1.5GB.

Galleries stay online all year, which is how storage actually accumulates.

The portrait photographer. The free plan does not survive contact with a real year: 3GB holds six sessions of 50 photos. Staying free while selling $900 of prints would also cost $135 in commission, more than Basic's $96.

So the honest floor for anyone booking regular sessions is Basic, and year two is Plus as the 10GB fills.

The wedding photographer. Bought separately, the same year would be gallery Pro at $288, one video add-on hour at $60 (125 minutes of film against 120 included), Website Pro at $216 and Studio Manager Pro at $216: $780.

Suite Pro does it for $456, a saving of $324 a year, and still has 115 minutes of video headroom. This is the profile Pixieset is priced for, and it shows.

The hybrid commercial shooter. Gallery Plus plus Website Plus is $336 a year, exactly the Suite Starter price, so the Suite is the obvious buy even without contracts.

The catch is that Suite Starter's 100GB and 1 hour are both tight for this volume, so the realistic second-year bill is Suite Pro at $456.

The Fine Print on Pixieset Fees and Limits

In one linePixieset does not collect or remit sales tax for you, expires digital-download links after 7 days, caps free-plan downloads at 3600px and only sells prints from JPEG files, and each of those rules has a cost that the plan table hides.

• Tax is yours. Pixieset's tax article says it "does not remit any taxes on your behalf". US stores can use automated calculation through TaxJar; everywhere else you set rates manually.
• Digital downloads expire. Store download links expire after 7 days; you can resend a fresh link from the order page at any time.
• Video downloads are capped below 4K except on Pro and Ultimate (gallery or Suite), where 4K downloads are available. Other plans deliver MP4 up to 2048px on the long edge, and selling video downloads through the gallery storefront is not supported.
• Print products need JPEGs. RAW and PNG files can be delivered but not sold as prints.
• Refunds run through Stripe or PayPal. You issue them from the processor's dashboard; PayPal refunds are possible for 180 days after purchase.
• Offline payments (cash, cheque, bank transfer) are only available on paid gallery or Suite plans.
• Mobile gallery apps hold up to 200 images each, and the free plan allows 3 apps.

None of these is unusual in the category, but two of them change the maths. The tax point means Pixieset's store is not a merchant-of-record service, so your accountant still has work to do.

The video caps mean a filmmaker comparing plans on hours alone may pay for 4K storage and still need Pro to deliver 4K files.

Cheaper or Better-Fit Pixieset Alternatives

Pixieset is fairly priced for photographers who sell prints and want studio paperwork in the same account, so the alternatives below are only better when your job differs, whether that means delivering video, wanting a stronger website, counting photos rather than gigabytes, or leaning harder on print sales.

Framekit: for photo and video delivery on the same plan as your site

Framekit is an AI website builder that puts client galleries with video, a digital-download store, frame-accurate video review and Slides on one storage pool shared with the portfolio site.

The free plan includes 10GB of that pool (3GB of it usable for video), against Pixieset's 3GB of photos and no video at all.

Paid plans are Starter at $7 a month billed yearly ($9 monthly) with 50GB, Pro at $15 ($19) with 300GB, and Business at $31 ($39) with 2TB.

Every plan, free included, has watermarking, gallery passwords, a separate download PIN, favourites and full-resolution ZIP downloads, and photos up to 100MB each.

For the hybrid commercial shooter above, Framekit Pro is $180 a year against Suite Starter's $336, with three times the storage and a Frame.io-style review tool for the brand films. For the wedding photographer, it is the wrong swap.

Where it losesFramekit has no print store or lab fulfilment, no contracts, invoices or booking, and its store sells digital files only, at a 5% fee on Free and Starter, 3% on Pro and 0% on Business.

See the full Framekit vs Pixieset comparison for the feature-by-feature view.

ShootProof: for photographers who think in photo counts

ShootProof prices by the number of photos you store rather than by gigabytes, which makes the bill predictable for high-volume JPEG delivery.

Its pricing page lists a free plan for 100 photos, then the 1,500 plan at $8.33 a month billed yearly ($9.99 monthly), the 5,000 plan at $16.67 ($19.99), the 25,000 plan at $26.67 ($31.99) and Unlimited at $50 ($60).

The standout is the free plan's selling terms: ShootProof lists commission-free sales on every plan, including free, where Pixieset takes 15%. The limit is 100 photos, which is a single session. Paid plans from 1,500 photos add invoicing, e-sign contracts and video.

Skip it if you deliver large RAW sets or long films, where a photo count stops being the useful measure. Already weighing the two? Pixieset vs ShootProof goes deeper.

Pic-Time: for photographers whose income is print and album sales

Pic-Time is built around the print store, with 30+ partner labs and automated sales campaigns.

Its pricing page lists Free (10GB, reduced to 3GB after 3 months, 1GB video), Beginner at $7 a month billed yearly (20GB), Professional at $21 (100GB, 30GB video) and Advanced at $42 (unlimited photos, 60GB video).

Where Pixieset removes commission entirely on paid plans, Pic-Time's page says commission applies only to your markup and falls with each plan, and self-collected payments carry none on Professional and Advanced.

For a photographer whose revenue is albums and wall art after the session, that sales machinery is the reason to pay.

Skip it if you never sell prints, because the plans are priced around a store you would not use. The head-to-head is in Pic-Time vs Pixieset.

Verdict: stay on Pixieset if you sell prints and want contracts in the same account; move to Framekit if your deliveries include video and your site matters more than paperwork; test ShootProof for free-plan sales; choose Pic-Time if print sales are the business.

How to Choose a Pixieset Plan: A Decision Guide

Work down these questions in order and stop at the first one that settles it, because each answer rules out a whole ladder and the plan that fits is usually obvious after three of them.

1. Do you sell prints or albums through your galleries? If yes, stay with Pixieset (or look at Pic-Time) and go to question 2. If no, and you mainly deliver files, compare the plan you need with a platform that does not charge for a store you will not use, such as those in our Pixieset alternatives guide.
2. Do you sell more than $640 a year through the gallery store? If yes, the free plan's 15% commission costs more than Basic, so pay for Basic at least. If no, and you have under 3GB of galleries, the free plan is genuinely usable.
3. Do you need contracts, invoices or a booking page? If yes, price the Suite before anything else, because Suite Starter costs the same as gallery Plus plus Website Plus and throws the studio manager in. If no, buy the gallery ladder alone plus Website Plus only if you want Pixieset to host your portfolio.
4. Do you deliver video? If you store more than an hour of films, skip Basic and Plus and compare gallery Pro (2 hours) with Suite Pro (4 hours); each extra hour elsewhere is $5 a month.
5. Is your archive over 1TB, or RAW-heavy? If yes, Suite Pro's 2,000GB is the cheapest large tier; Ultimate's unlimited storage still caps RAW at 1,000GB, and the Studio plans are for teams that need IP whitelisting.
6. Are you sure you will stay twelve months? If yes, pay yearly and save up to $144 on Suite Pro. If not, pay monthly, because cancellations are not refunded.

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does Pixieset cost per month in 2026?

Pixieset costs $0 to $40 a month for Client Gallery billed yearly (Basic $8, Plus $16, Pro $24, Ultimate $40), or $10 to $50 billed monthly. The Website and Studio Manager apps are $12 or $18 a month each billed yearly.

The Suite, which bundles all three, is $28, $38 or $55 a month billed yearly, or $35, $50 or $65 monthly. Prices were read on Pixieset's pricing pages on 19 September 2026.

Is Pixieset free, and what does the free plan leave out?

Pixieset has a free plan that does not expire, with 3GB of photo storage, unlimited galleries and a store.

It leaves out video uploads, a custom domain, branding removal and original-resolution downloads (free-plan high-resolution downloads stop at 3600px), and it charges a 15% commission on store sales.

Most photographers with regular sessions outgrow the 3GB within a few months.

Does Pixieset take a commission on print sales?

Pixieset takes a 15% commission on store sales only on the free Client Gallery plan, and 0% on every paid Client Gallery or Suite plan.

The 15% is calculated on the order subtotal before discounts, taxes and shipping, so a 100% coupon still triggers it. Lab costs and Stripe or PayPal processing fees apply on every plan, paid or free.

Is the Pixieset Suite worth it?

The Pixieset Suite is worth it if you would otherwise pay for a gallery plan and a website, because Suite Starter at $28 a month billed yearly costs the same as gallery Plus plus Website Plus and adds the studio manager free.

Suite Pro at $38 saves 37% against the three Pro apps bought separately and doubles gallery Pro's storage to 2,000GB. It is not worth it if you only need galleries.

How much video can you store on Pixieset?

Pixieset measures video in hours, not gigabytes: 30 minutes on gallery Basic, 1 hour on Plus, 2 hours on Pro and 5 hours on Ultimate, with Pro and Ultimate supporting 4K. The Suite gives 1, 4 and 10 hours.

Extra video costs $5 a month per hour, and the free plan stores no video at all.

Is Pixieset cheaper than ShootProof or Pic-Time?

Pixieset, ShootProof and Pic-Time start within a dollar of each other: $8 a month billed yearly for Pixieset Basic, $8.33 for ShootProof's 1,500 plan and $7 for Pic-Time Beginner.

They diverge on the free plan: Pixieset charges 15% commission on free-plan sales, ShootProof lists commission-free sales on its free plan, and Pic-Time applies commission only to your markup.

For a year-by-year comparison see how much client galleries cost.

Can you get a refund if you cancel a Pixieset plan?

Pixieset does not issue refunds for cancellations, according to its billing article updated in June 2026.

Yearly subscribers can choose to cancel at the end of the current cycle instead of immediately, which keeps the plan active for the time already paid.

Switching between paid plans mid-cycle is prorated, with unused time credited to the new plan.

Does Pixieset handle sales tax on store orders?

Pixieset does not remit sales tax for you.

US stores can switch on automated tax calculation through TaxJar, which adds the right rate at checkout, and stores elsewhere set their own country and regional rates, including VAT-inclusive pricing.

Filing and paying the tax collected stays the photographer's job, so Pixieset is not a merchant-of-record service.

Is Pixieset or Framekit cheaper for photographers who also deliver video?

Framekit is cheaper for photographers who deliver video but do not sell prints: its free plan includes 10GB with video, and Pro at $15 a month billed yearly gives 300GB shared by galleries, video and the website.

Pixieset's free plan has no video and gallery Pro at $24 includes 2 hours. Pixieset stays the better buy if print sales, contracts or booking are part of the job, because Framekit has none of them.

Is Pixieset Ultimate really unlimited storage?

Pixieset Ultimate lists unlimited photo storage, with one limit printed on the pricing page: RAW uploads are capped at 1,000GB. For photographers who deliver JPEGs, the storage is effectively unlimited.

Video on Ultimate is still metered, at 5 hours on the gallery plan and 10 hours on Suite Ultimate.

Final Verdict

Pixieset's pricing is fair and, in the Suite, generous: Suite Pro at $38 a month billed yearly gives galleries, a website, contracts, booking, 2,000GB and 4 hours of 4K video, and costs $324 a year less than buying the same year as separate apps.

The free plan is the weak rung, with 3GB, no video and a 15% commission that applies before discounts, so treat it as a trial rather than a home.

The right Pixieset plan for most working photographers is Basic or Plus if you only deliver and sell, and Suite Starter or Suite Pro the moment you want a website or contracts, because the bundle makes the studio manager free or close to it.

Where Framekit loses is exactly where Pixieset is strongest: it does not sell prints, run lab fulfilment, write contracts, send invoices or take bookings, so a portrait or wedding photographer whose income depends on those should stay on Pixieset.

Framekit is a better fit for photographers and filmmakers whose deliveries include video, who want the website to be the main product, and who sell digital files rather than prints.

Related readingif you are deciding whether to stay, read is Pixieset worth it; for the lowest-cost options across the category see the cheapest client gallery software and commission-free client galleries; if prints are the business, how to sell prints from a client gallery covers the mechanics; and if you are leaving, how to move from Pixieset to your own website walks through the switch.

Comparing it with a website-first option?

Read Pixieset vs Squarespace, check what Pic-Time charges if print sales matter most, or see the all-in-one platforms for photographers.