Pixieset vs ShootProof: an honest comparison for 2026

These two are usually compared on price, and price is exactly where the comparison gets confusing, because they do not charge for the same thing.

The difference that decides it

Pixieset charges for gigabytes. ShootProof charges for photographs.

That sounds like a detail and it is actually the whole comparison.

If you shoot weddings, your files are large and your counts are moderate. A wedding might be 700 finals at 8MB each, which is about 5.5GB and 700 photos. Storage pricing suits you.

If you shoot schools, sports days, dance recitals or events, your counts are enormous and your files are often smaller. Ten thousand photos at 3MB is 30GB and 10,000 photos. Per-photo pricing punishes you and per-gigabyte pricing does not.

Run your own numbers before anything else on this page. Take last year: how many photos did you deliver, and how many gigabytes were they? Whichever number is uncomfortably large tells you which pricing model is wrong for you.

Watch the archive fee

ShootProof charges an archive fee, starting around $2.99 a month, to keep photos beyond your plan's count on anything other than the unlimited tier. That is not hidden, but it is easy to model badly, because the photos you are storing only ever accumulate. Wedding photographers who keep several years of galleries live should price the unlimited tier rather than the plan that fits this year.

Pixieset's equivalent pressure is simply moving up a tier, which is more predictable.

Where each one is stronger

Pixieset has the better bundle. Suite plans fold in a portfolio website and Studio Manager, which is real money if you were otherwise paying for a site separately.

ShootProof puts business tools lower down its range. Invoicing and contract signing appear from the 5,000 photo plan, where Pixieset keeps its equivalent behind Suite.

Both have a print store and both are competent at it.

Which one

Weddings and portraits: Pixieset. The pricing model matches your file profile and the suite is worth having.

Volume work: ShootProof. Per-photo pricing and the included business tools fit a business that delivers tens of thousands of frames a year.

If you sit in between (say you shoot weddings but also do a couple of large events), model both against last year's actual delivery numbers. The right answer is usually obvious once real numbers are in the spreadsheet, and it is almost never the one with the nicer marketing site.

Prices and plan limits here were checked on the date shown above and come from each company's public pricing pages. Both change them, so confirm before you commit.