Alamy just licenses your stock images for customers to use. There are two image license types you can choose from: RM stands for Rights Managed. With this license, the customer only pays for what they're using the image for.

The average image license fee on Alamy is $30; we deal with a variety of clients so the prices do vary in different industries and countries. Generally, licenses for editorial uses achieve lower average prices than commercial uses – but our editorial clients tend to license stock images more frequently.

Become an Alamy contributor and see your work used by picture buyers globally—from newspapers and books to billboards, TV shows and websites—you'll earn up to 50% commission for each use (100% if you're a student!).

It is an online supplier of stock images, videos, and other image material. Their content comes from agencies and independent photographers, or are collected from news archives, museums, national collections, and public domain content copied from Wikimedia Commons.