Amazon Photos vs Google Photos
Amazon Photos and Google Photos are both photo management software. Amazon Photos is a commercial product from Amazon. Google Photos is a commercial product from Google.
Which to pick
- Pick Amazon Photos when
- You already pay for Prime and want a free backup of your photo library alongside another service.
- Pick Google Photos when
- You want automatic phone backup with strong search, especially on Android.
Side by side
Photo backup with unlimited full-resolution photo storage for Amazon Prime members and 5 GB for video.
Backs up photos and videos from phones and computers, with face and object search, shared albums and AI editing tools.
Video storage is limited, search and editing lag behind Google Photos, and the benefit ends if Prime ends.
Storage counts against your Google account quota, and Google can change features and limits as it did in 2021.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service, mobile app and desktop app
Cloud service and mobile app
Not published (both)
Closed source, sold by Amazon
Closed source, sold by Google
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code. (both)
No Wikipedia article of its own
32k Wikipedia readers a month on phones
Other comparisons
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Both sides were judged on 2026-11-03 from makers' descriptions, Wikipedia, READMEs and GitHub data. License, age and popularity lines are worked out directly.