How many GB is 500 photos?

Multiply the number of photos by the average file size: 500 x 8 MB = 4,000 MB = 4 GB, and 500 x 25 MB = 12,500 MB = 12.5 GB. The sizes in the table are example averages, not camera specifications. Resolution, detail and export quality all change them, so measure your own folder and divide by the photo count.

The gallery size calculator uses the same 8 MB and 25 MB presets and takes your own average.

The free 2 GB fits 500 photos only if they average 4 MB or less (2,000 MB / 500). At 3 MB they take 1.5 GB, 75% of the plan. At 5 MB they reach 2.5 GB and no longer fit. At 8 MB they are 4 GB, twice the free plan, which holds about 250 of them.

Pro gives you 100 GB for USD 9 a month or USD 90 a year before tax, or EUR 8 a month or EUR 80 a year in Europe with VAT included. A 4 GB set uses 4% of it and 12.5 GB of RAW files uses 12.5%, so Pro holds 25 sets of 500 JPEGs at 8 MB, or 8 sets of 500 RAW files at 25 MB.

You can upload the whole set as a draft and see its exact size first; the plan limit applies when you publish. Only the files you upload count, not previews or thumbnails. See pricing.

shoots.page counts 1 GB as 1,000,000,000 bytes, and Apple says storage makers measure capacity the same way, in decimal. Windows File Explorer counts in steps of 1,024 and still writes MB and GB, so the same files look about 7% smaller in GB there: 4 GB shows as about 3.73 GB and 12.5 GB as about 11.6 GB. The free 2 GB is about 1.86 GB in Windows terms.

That matters right at the 4 MB line. If Windows shows your photos at 4 MB each, each one is 4,194,304 bytes. 500 of them are 2,097,152,000 bytes: about 1.95 GB in Windows, but 2.1 GB on shoots.page, so they miss the free plan. The app shows sizes in decimal GB, so check the number there before you publish.

Your client gets one gallery link. They need no account and never pay. At 60 photos per page, 500 photos fill 9 pages. They save originals byte for byte, singly or as one ZIP, or pick 2000 px JPEGs. RAW uploads reach them as full-size JPEGs unless you switch on RAW downloads for that gallery.

4 GB takes about 27 to 35 minutes to upload at 20 Mbps, or 5 to 7 minutes at 100 Mbps; 12.5 GB takes about 17 to 22 minutes at 100 Mbps. The upload time calculator runs it for your own speed. Files go up in 8 MiB parts, so after a dropped connection or a closed tab you press Resume upload and only the missing parts are sent. A gallery is not a backup: keep your own archive of every shoot.

Apple Support: How storage capacity is measured on Apple devices. Microsoft Learn: Windows support for hard disks that are larger than 2 TB. The Old New Thing, Microsoft: Why does Explorer use the term KB instead of KiB? Microsoft Q&A, May 2026: thread on bytes and GB in Windows. Totals and conversions are our own arithmetic from the example averages shown. Checked 29 October 2026.