Amazon Photos vs Immich
Amazon Photos and Immich are both photo management software. Amazon Photos is a commercial product from Amazon. Immich is open source under AGPL-3.0, with 118k GitHub stars.
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 Immich when
- You want Google Photos-style backup and search on your own server for a household or small group.
Side by side
Photo backup with unlimited full-resolution photo storage for Amazon Prime members and 5 GB for video.
A self-hosted photo and video library with automatic phone backup, timeline, albums, sharing, face recognition and AI search, positioned as a Google Photos replacement.
Video storage is limited, search and editing lag behind Google Photos, and the benefit ends if Prime ends.
Needs a reasonably capable server and your own backup plan; the project itself warns not to treat it as your only copy.
Production-ready (both)
Cloud service, mobile app and desktop app
Self-hosted server and mobile app
Not published
TypeScript, NestJS, SvelteKit, Dart and PostgreSQL
Closed source, sold by Amazon
Open source, AGPL-3.0 (network copyleft)
Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Use inside your business is unrestricted. If you change it and let customers use it over the internet, you must publish your changes.
No Wikipedia article of its own
118k GitHub stars
Not known
Established: started 4 years ago, latest release v3.3.5.
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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.