Best Free Image Hosting Sites

1. Imgur

Imgur is primarily used to host free images by Redditors. Imgur is free to use and it allows you to upload high-resolution images without creating an account.

 Using the service is pretty simple, just upload an image and copy the shareable link.

Source: TechWiser
Imgur has its own community.

On the other hand, there is no direct link feature you can just right-click on the image to copy the image and your images will be compressed, more if you are not logged in. So, I recommend creating a free account if the quality is a priority.

-> But there is a caveat there's a limit of 200 MB for GIF and 20 MB for other images on the platform. 

-> PNG images that are over 5 MB are converted into JPEG. You can only upload 50 images per hour, per IP [All hail VPN].

-> Luckily, you can press CTRL+V on the site, to upload images from your clipboard. They also offer a crop and blur tool to hide sensitive and private info.

2. Flickr


Fun Fact: For a long time, Flickr was at the top in the world for an image sharing site. 

-> It is an image sharing social media site. 

-> It is one of the oldest, and still one of the best there is.

Flickr not only lets you upload and share images, but there are tons of editing tools that you can use to edit your images. 

-> You can then organize your images into folders and albums. 

Flickr has its own dedicated API which means it integrates with a lot of social media sites and other third-party apps like Dropbox making the sharing and backing up process easy.

-> You get a fascinating 1 TB of free storage for free. 

The pro plan will remove ads, offer advanced stats on your images like how many shares and likes.

3. Google Photos

Google Photos is free to use. Not only you use Google Photos to host and share images, but you can also use it to automatically backup photos from your mobile devices.



-> It offers a unique way of organizing photos, for example, by location, people, and date. Like Flickr, it comes with photo editing tools.

->Google Photos makes it easy to share your images with others 

Google offers two options :
  • In original quality, you get limited storage of 15 GB. 

  • In Compress quality, you get unlimited storage, and limit of 16MP for images and 1080 for videos. I think, if you are not a pro photographer, the latter is more than enough.

-> It is reliable and won’t vanish anytime soon, like some image hosting sites. 

Google Photos is a great way to backup, store, organize, and share images on the fly on a number of platforms.