Swiss Picture Bank offers industry-leading low cost secure online archiving for all photographers.

  Winner of the 2008 DIMA award for most innovative digital product.

In the past, photographers have had to resort to using a fireproof vault to protect against damage to valuable images. The inherent risk of having a single original negative has been greatly reduced by the use of high resolution scanning and digital capture, but digital media brings with it additional and less obvious risks: every year over 40% of computer users lose data. Swiss Picture Bank is your own private, secure online image database, accessible from anywhere, at any time. It protects against hard drive crashes, accidental deletion, viruses, natural disasters and all the other dangers that threaten your digital photos.

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Low cost No purchase required. No standing charges. One credit pays for one photo to be stored for 30 years and costs only 3 cents! This is a one-time fee per picture! Other photo sites charge you high monthly or yearly subscription fees for large amounts of storage, most of which is never used. And you keep paying. At Swiss Picture Bank you pay a single one-time fee for every image you deposit. There are no hidden costs or ongoing fees.
Ultra secure Swiss Picture Bank is the only online service built specifically to preserve your images for decades. The core of our technical infrastructure is the Hitachi Content Archive Platform, a cutting edge WORM (write once, read many) long-term data archive. It is supported by three independent backups: a hard drive array located in a second data center; a magnetic tape system housed in a Swiss bank vault; and a second magnetic tape system housed in a Swiss army bunker in the Alps engineered to withstand atomic, biological and chemical attack.
PGF Guarantee When you deposit photos in your Swiss Picture Bank account, a portion of the proceeds go to the Picture Guarantee Foundation (a not-for-profit organization founded to ensure the long-term preservation of pictures) to cover the future costs of storage. It is our goal to remain your service provider for years to come, but if for some reason we cannot, the PGF will use these funds to pay a replacement service. With PGF backing you know that your photos will still be in your account 30 years later. No other service can make this promise.
Green Systems Because Swiss Picture Bank secure storage systems are located exclusively in Switzerland, they all run on power generated primarily by hydroelectric plants and other sources that do not consume fossil fuels. This means the systems that will guard your pictures for decades are powered by energy supplies that are 98% carbon free.