Source

Pexels

Hundreds of thousands of free stock videos up to 4K, many vertical; Pexels licence (no credit needed). Link-only for now: its API needs a key (new keys paused) and its terms forbid competing services.

Visit Pexels

Licence: Pexels LicenseCommercial use OK
Pricing: Free
Direct download: No, results link to the source site
Footage: Nature, City & urban, People, Aerial & drone, Technology, Transport, Food & drink, Backgrounds, Overlays & VFX, Green screen
How it is searched: Not searched directly: the site does not allow automated search, so results link to the same search on the site

What Pexels is

Pexels is a free stock site with hundreds of thousands of videos up to 4K, many of them vertical, contributed by photographers and filmmakers.

Best for

Modern lifestyle, people, cities, food and nature clips, especially vertical footage for social media.

Licence and what it means for your video

The Pexels License allows free commercial use without credit, with restrictions such as not selling unaltered copies and not showing identifiable people in an offensive way.

How Video Assets Server searches it

Link only: its API needs a key (new key issuance was paused when last checked) and its terms forbid building a similar or competing service, so every search links to the same query on Pexels instead of fetching results.

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