Envato Elements vs Vexels Comparison 2026
Both cover stock footage & assets and design & graphics. Here is what separates them on price, billing, what you can take with you, and coverage.
Unlimited stock assets on one subscription
Print-ready merch designs by subscription
At a glance
- Vexels starts cheaper, at $9.08.
- Neither has a free tier.
Side by side
Envato Elements | Vexels | |
|---|---|---|
| Starting price (they differ) | From $16.50 | From $9.08 |
| Pricing model | Paid subscription | Paid subscription |
| Free tier | No | No |
| Billing | Monthly or annual | Not stated |
| Free trial | Not stated | Not stated |
| API | Not stated | Not stated |
| Data export | Not stated | Not stated |
Shaded rows are where the two answers disagree and both listings have answered. A row where one side has not stated a fact is left plain, because silence is not a difference.
Envato Elements
Unlimited stock assets on one subscription
One subscription covers footage, music, sound effects, fonts, mockups and project templates for Premiere and After Effects, and the licence on anything you have already used survives you cancelling. For somebody publishing weekly it replaces four stock accounts. Quality is uneven, and finding the good file takes longer than the price suggests it should.
Our note
Worth it at the annual price and hard to justify at the monthly one. Count how many separate stock bills it actually replaces first, because the honest answer is usually two rather than the four the pitch assumes.
Only on this side
- Covers music licensing
Vexels
Print-ready merch designs by subscription
Vexels sells the artwork rather than the shirt: thousands of print-ready designs licensed for merchandise, plus an editor and a mockup generator for putting them on a product photo. A download limit per month is what separates the tiers. For a seller who can pick a niche but not draw, this replaces commissioning every design. The catalogue leans hard into slogan tees, and it shows.
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