🆚 ArtStation vs. Pixiv
- 📈 ArtStation is noticeably more popular than Pixiv.
- 🌎 ArtStation is more popular in the United States, Germany, and France.
- 🌍 Pixiv is more popular in Japan, Vietnam, and China.
ArtStation
PixivType
About
ArtStation is an online portfolio platform where artists, illustrators, designers, and small creative studios publish and showcase digital artwork, concept art, 3D projects, and game development assets.
It provides customizable portfolio websites, project galleries with image, video, and 3D model support, built-in blogging tools, and recruitment features used by companies to discover and contact artists.
Pixiv is a Japanese online art community where artists share and discover illustrations, manga, novels, and animation-inspired artwork, with a strong focus on anime, game, and fan art culture.
It features tagging and ranking systems, bookmarking and recommendation tools, commissioned artwork requests, fan subscriptions, digital and physical merchandise sales, and Pixiv Sketch for browser-based drawing and livestreaming.
Headquarters
Pricing
(+ premium themes, custom domains, 95% revenue share) $9.95/month
(+ team members, Studios Directory listing) $29.99/month
Categories
Popularity
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Market share
Popularity by country
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Awards
- ⭐ 4th most popular in the United States in the Design Portfolios category.
- ⬆️ 24th most popular in the United States in the Marketplaces category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Japan in the Design Portfolios category.
- 🔥 15th most popular in Japan in the Social Media category.
Popularity by domain category
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Top sites
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- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,603,958 websites.
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