Xposure or Pixpa.
Pixpa is an affordable, general-purpose website builder for creatives (photographers, artists, designers) with proofing and light e-commerce bundled into every plan, including its cheapest tier. Xposure is built specifically for photographers, with a native booking, deposit, and contract engine that Pixpa does not offer.
Xposure
Better if clients book sessions with you and pay a deposit online.
- Booking, contract and deposit in one flow
- 25 GB on the entry paid plan, not 3 GB
- Camera and lens shown on every photo
Pixpa
Better if you want the cheapest general creative website with a store.
- A lower entry price
- A store for physical products and custom CSS
- A free domain for the first year
What does each plan cost per month?
Monthly billing, US dollars for both, by how much you store. Shorter is cheaper.
Source: pixpa.com/pricing.
How do Xposure and Pixpa compare, feature by feature?
| Xposure | Pixpa | |
|---|---|---|
| Galleries | ||
| Client galleries with proofing, comments & ratings | ||
| EXIF-aware photo presentationCamera/lens/settings rendered automatically. | No | |
| Selling | ||
| Sell digital downloadsStandard payment processor fees still apply on both. | 0% on Pro and Studio, 10% on Starter | 0% |
| Product cap on entry paid plan | Unlimited | 3 products (Basic) |
| Bookings | ||
| Online booking with deposits & contractsNot offered by Pixpa at any tier as of this comparison. | No | |
| Two-way Google Calendar sync | No | |
| Website | ||
| Custom domainPixpa bundles a free domain into even its cheapest plan. | Every paid plan | Free for 1 year, all plans |
| Targeted at | Photographers only | Creatives broadly (photography, art, design) |
| Plans | ||
| Starting price (entry paid plan) | $9/mo (Starter) | $9/mo (Basic) |
| Storage (entry paid plan) | 25 GB (Starter) | 3 GB (Basic) |
Pixpa 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 Pixpa pricing breakdown.
The cheapest way to get a site and galleries together
Pixpa is priced below almost everything else here and bundles a website, galleries, a store and a blog into one subscription with 0% commission on every plan. For a photographer who mainly needs a presentable website with delivery attached, that is hard to beat on cost.
The storage ladder is where the price shows: 3 GB on Basic and 5 GB on Creator are small for photographic work, and Professional at 25 GB is where most working photographers would actually land.
No booking, deposits or contracts
Pixpa does not offer session booking, deposits or contracts at all. If you are running a business where clients book and pay a deposit, that work happens somewhere else, and the cost of that somewhere else belongs in the comparison.
This is the main reason a photographer chooses Xposure over Pixpa despite our higher entry price: our booking manager is included on every paid plan rather than being a separate tool with a separate bill.
A generalist, not a photography tool
Pixpa serves creatives broadly, which means designers, writers and artists as well as photographers. The upside is polish and breadth; the downside is that nothing in it is shaped specifically around delivering photographs.
There is no EXIF-aware presentation, no reveal-date workflow, and no photographer-specific proofing model. Whether that matters depends entirely on how much of your work is client delivery rather than self-promotion.
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.