Xposure or Pixieset.
One plan with the site, galleries and bookings in it, against three subscriptions or the Suite that bundles them.
Xposure
Better if you want one price for everything and you store under 250 GB.
- Booking, contract and deposit in one flow
- Camera and lens shown on every photo
- Films with client approval on Pro and Studio
Pixieset
Better if you want galleries for free, unlimited storage or invoices on their own.
- Client galleries on the free plan, at 15% of sales
- A choice of print labs
- An unlimited storage tier
What do site, galleries and bookings cost per month?
Yearly billing, US dollars for both, by how much you store. Shorter is cheaper.
Studio includes team logins. Monthly billing: Xposure $21 and $52, Pixieset $35, $50 and $65. Source: pixieset.com/pricing-suite.
How do Xposure and Pixieset compare, feature by feature?
| Xposure | Pixieset | |
|---|---|---|
| Galleries | ||
| PIN-protected client galleries | ||
| Proofing and favourites | ||
| Camera and lens shown on each photo | No | |
| Client galleries on the free plan | No | Yes, 3 GB, 15% of sales |
| White-label galleriesXposure client galleries, on every paid plan, carry no Xposure branding. A Free portfolio shows a small Xposure bar; paid plans remove it. | All upgraded plans | |
| Watermarked previews, clean downloads | ||
| Selling | ||
| Commission on downloads and prints | 0% on Pro and Studio, 10% on Starter | 0% on paid plans |
| Print lab | Prodigi, built in | Several partner labs or your own |
| Bookings | ||
| Online booking with a deposit | Every paid plan | Studio Manager, separate |
| Contracts signed at booking | Every paid plan | Studio Manager, separate |
| QuestionnairesXposure sends them off the booking itself: so many days after it is confirmed, before the session, or after it. | Every paid plan | Studio Manager, separate |
| Standalone invoices | No | |
| Two-way Google Calendar sync | Studio Manager, separate | |
| Website | ||
| Your own domain | Every paid plan | Website subscription |
| Plans | ||
| Pricing modelXposure includes galleries and bookings in every paid plan (Starter from $9/mo). Pixieset sells Client Gallery ($8 to $40/mo billed annually), Website and Studio Manager separately, or the Suite bundle ($28 to $55/mo billed annually). | One plan with site, galleries and bookings | Separate subscriptions, or the Suite |
Pixieset pricing and plan details from their own pricing page. Competitor pricing changes, so treat this as a snapshot rather than a quote. For every plan and what each one includes, see the full Pixieset pricing breakdown.
What you are actually choosing between
Pixieset is not one product. Client Gallery, Website and Studio Manager are three subscriptions, and the Suite bundle exists because most working photographers end up wanting more than one of them. That structure is the single biggest difference here, and it is not visible on the gallery pricing page you probably landed on first.
The practical effect is that a Pixieset quote tends to grow between the moment you decide and the moment you pay. A photographer who wants galleries, a portfolio site and a way to take bookings is buying three things. Xposure is one plan, and bookings, contracts and deposits are in it from the entry tier.
The free plan costs 15%
Pixieset's free tier is genuinely usable for a small number of galleries, which is why so many photographers start there. It also takes 15% of anything you sell through it, where every paid plan takes nothing.
That fee is invisible until you make a sale, and it compounds quietly. At a few hundred euros of print or download sales a year it already costs more than the cheapest paid plan would have. If you are on free and selling anything at all, work out the fee before deciding the free tier is saving you money.
Where the storage ladder bites
The tiers run 3 GB free, then 10 GB, then 100 GB. There is nothing in between, so the moment a working photographer outgrows Basic the bill doubles. Whether that happens depends less on how much you shoot than on how long you leave delivered galleries online.
That is worth modelling honestly before you commit, because it is the decision you cannot easily reverse: galleries your clients already have links to are the ones you least want to take down to save a tier.
Pixieset against the others.
Moving galleries from another platform? Read how switching works, one gallery at a time.
Try it on your next client.
Fourteen days of Pro, no card. Move the rest once you have seen a gallery delivered.