Flickr or Photobucket?

Flickr, “is an online photo management and sharing application. Its primary goals are to help people make photos available to those who matter to them, and to enable new ways of organizing pictures.”

Photobucket “is a free and easy image hosting software and online photo album for uploading pictures and sharing of photos.”

Both Flickr and Photobucket are photo sharing site but which one is better? Below are the list of comparison.

Bandwidth.
Both Flick and Photobucket has it limit. Flickr lets user to upload about 100MB worth of photos each calendar month, while Photobucket gives each user up to 25 GB of monthly traffic. However, Photobucket has this “bandwidth limit exceeded” when the images does not load while Flickr has no restrictions on the download bandwidth.

Hosting images.
Flickr is primarily a photo sharing while Photobucket, is a photo hosting site whereby user can input any images here and there and use them wherever they want but the only restriction is the bandwidth restriction. The Flickr service makes it possible to post images hosted on Flickr to outside web sites. However, pages on other web sites that display images hosted on flickr.com must provide a link from each photo back to its photo page on Flickr. Thus, for pure hosting purposes, Photobucket is a options.

Storage images
Photobucket offers 1 GB of storage to each user, and uploaded image files must be 1 MB or less. On the other hand, with Flickr’s free account, user can upload files up to 5MB in size, but there is no limit to how many images they want to upload.  Flickr free account has a limits to the number of photos displayed. Only the recent 200 photos will be displayed. Couple that with the monthly 100 MB restriction for upload, and you got yourself a lot of restrictions. Both services are actually quite restrictive when it comes to hosting, and the choice comes down to personal preference. We declare this one a draw.

Sharing images.
Photobucket is all about hosting images, while Flickr is all about sharing them. If user wants to share photos with their friends, Flickr will make a better choice.

To choose Photobucket or Flickr?
Up to the individual choice, because both cater the need of photo sharing. Photobucket is more useful for simple, quiet image hosting. Flickr has the Web 2.0 flare but just that user can’t upload a bunch of images on it and host them on their website. Too which many others may not know Flickr actually offers more, in term of  sharing and social networking.

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