Do Stock Pictures From This Site Need Attribution or Credit?

No. You are not required to credit Cheap Stock Pictures, the site, or anyone else when you publish a picture downloaded from here. The license does not contain an attribution clause, and there is no hidden condition that turns a missing credit into a violation. If you want to add one, you can. If you do not, nothing changes.

That answer surprises people who have used Creative Commons stock pictures, where "CC BY" means a credit is a legal condition and forgetting it technically ends your permission. This site does not use that model. The grant is unconditional on credit.

Why attribution is not required here

Attribution exists to protect a photographer's reputation and to route future work back to them. The pictures on this site are AI-assisted stock imagery. There is no individual photographer whose portfolio depends on a byline, so the usual reason to demand one does not apply. Asking for credit anyway would add friction without adding value to anyone.

There is a second reason. Credit lines are easy to get wrong. Designers paste them into the wrong layer, clients strip them in a later edit, and social platforms crop them out. A license that hinges on a credit line quietly fails all the time. A license that does not depend on one cannot fail that way.

When a credit still makes sense

Optional does not mean pointless. A short credit can help in a few situations:

• Client work where the client wants a source list for every asset, usually for their own compliance file.
• Academic or editorial pieces where the house style asks for an image source on every figure.
• Portfolio pages where you want to be transparent that the imagery is stock rather than your own photography.
• Any case where a reader might reasonably assume the picture is a real photograph of a real event and you want to signal that it is generated imagery.

In those cases a single line is enough. Something like "Image: Cheap Stock Pictures, AI-assisted" next to the picture, or a source list at the end of the document with the image page URL. There is no required wording.

What a credit does not do

A credit does not expand the license. Adding "used with permission" under a picture does not make an excluded use allowed, and it does not let you resell the file. The resale limits article explains that boundary. Nor does a credit transfer any risk to us. If you use a picture in a misleading way, the credit line will not help you.

A credit also does not replace a check of the picture itself. Look at the tag chips on the image page, confirm the subject matches what you are saying about it, and read the editorial versus commercial guidance if the picture will appear next to a factual claim.

Do you have to say the picture is AI-assisted?

The license does not require it. Some platforms and some jurisdictions are starting to ask for disclosure of generated imagery in specific contexts, particularly advertising and political content. Those rules come from the platform or the law, not from this site, and they change. If you are publishing somewhere that has such a rule, follow it. If you are unsure, a plain "AI-assisted stock image" note costs nothing and removes the question.

The short version to give a client

You may use stock pictures from this site without a credit line. The permission is on the license page and applies the same whether a credit is present or not. If the client wants a source list, give them the image page URLs. If they want proof, point them to the license. If they want more pictures in the same style, send them to the tag index and let them browse with the same one-click Download JPG button you used.