🆚 Flickr vs. Instagram

📈 Instagram is much more popular than Flickr.
🌍 Instagram is more popular in all countries.

Statistics based on 3.4M+ analyzed websites. About this data

Flickr

Instagram

Type

Social media platform

About

Flickr is a photo-sharing social network and image hosting service with free storage for up to 1,000 photos.

It provides full-resolution image storage without compression, photostream galleries, albums and collections, tagging and geolocation, groups and community interactions, basic editing tools, and an API for developers.

Instagram is a photo and video sharing social media platform owned by Meta Platforms.

It allows users to post photos and short videos with built-in filters and effects, share disappearing Stories and Reels, send direct messages, and use hashtags and geotags for content discovery.

Headquarters

Mountain View, California, United States

Menlo Park, California, United States

Website

flickr.com #32

instagram.com #5

Pricing

Free version ✔️Maximum of 50 non-public photos or videos; 1,000 item upload limit

Flickr Pro$11/month

Free ✔️

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Instagram social media platform is 64 times more popular than Flickr.

Total websites

Market share

Social Media

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Instagram is more popular than Flickr in all countries.

United States

Germany

United Kingdom

Japan

Spain

Italy

Brazil

France

Australia

India

Awards

⭐ 5th most popular in Rwanda in the Social Media category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Chile in the Social Media category.
⭐ 7th most popular in Ecuador in the Social Media category.
⭐ 8th most popular in the United States in the Social Media category.
⭐ 8th most popular in Norway in the Social Media category.

🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the Social Media category.
🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Social Media category.
🥇 Most popular in Iran in the Social Media category.
🥇 Most popular in Korea in the Social Media category.
🥇 Most popular in Chile in the Social Media category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Instagram is more popular than Flickr in all market segments.

Business

Online Shopping

Education/Reference

Blogs/Wiki

Travel

Entertainment

Internet Services

Sports

Health

Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name

Rank

#32

#320

#474

#1,115

#1,143

Name

Rank

#13

#16

#17

#20

#23