AI agents for Pexels
A Monmo agent uses Pexels the way a picture researcher would. It reads your brief, searches photos and videos by subject, orientation, colour and size, rejects the ones that look staged or off-brand, and hands you a shortlist with photographer credits and links. It works with your own Pexels API key and asks before it adds any image to your site, store or shared drive.
Updated 2026-11-13 · Free to start. Paid plans from $15 a month.
What agents do in Pexels
Shortlist photos for an article
From the draft it picks three or four visual ideas, searches each, and returns a shortlist of eight with the photographer's name and a note on why each one fits.
AskFind eight Pexels photos for the remote work article. Avoid people smiling at laptops.
Find vertical b-roll for Reels
It searches Pexels videos in portrait orientation at HD or above, previews each, and picks clips without logos or readable text, so they can sit under your captions.
AskFind six vertical b-roll clips of city mornings for our Instagram Reels, at least HD.
Match your brand colours
Pexels search can filter by colour. It uses your palette to find images that sit well with your design, then tries the best few in your Canva template.
AskFind hero images in our teal and sand colours and try the best three in the Canva template.
Keep the credits straight
For each image you use it records the photographer, the Pexels link and the page it went on in Google Sheets, so credit lines are easy to add and questions easy to answer.
AskLog every Pexels photo we used this month with photographer, link and page.
Flag images that need a second look
The Pexels licence allows free use with some limits, such as not selling unaltered copies. It flags photos with recognisable people, brands or artwork for your decision before they go on product pages.
AskCheck the shortlist for visible logos or recognisable people before we use it on the product page.
Fill a deck with images
For a Google Slides deck it reads each slide, finds an image that supports the point, sizes it, and shows you the set before adding them to the slides.
AskFind one image per section for the onboarding deck and show me the set before you add them.
Prepare images for the website
It downloads the chosen photo, crops and resizes it for each breakpoint and hands the files to your web developer agent, so the page loads a sensible file rather than the original.
AskGet the three chosen Pexels photos at 1600, 960 and 480 wide for the new landing page.
How it connects
- 1You connect Pexels once with an API key from your own Pexels account. The API has request limits, so the agent searches in focused batches rather than paging through everything.
- 2You choose which agents may use Pexels. Content, social media and web developer agents fit; most others will never search for a photo.
- 3Searching, previewing and shortlisting need no approval. Adding images to your website, store, shared drive, deck or a published post asks first.
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Questions people ask
Can an AI agent find stock photos on Pexels for me?
Yes. A Monmo AI agent reads your brief, searches Pexels photos and videos with filters for orientation, size and colour, and returns a short, reasoned shortlist with credits and links. It looks at each image rather than trusting its title, so you are not handed fifty near-identical results.
Do Pexels photos need attribution?
Pexels says attribution is not required but appreciated, and its licence has a few limits, such as not selling unaltered copies. The agent records the photographer and link for every image it uses, so you can credit them. If a use looks like it might fall outside the licence, it raises it with you.
Can it find video clips as well as photos?
Yes. Pexels has stock video, and the agent searches it by subject, orientation and minimum size, previews each clip and notes its length. It favours clips without logos or readable text so they work under captions. The chosen files are saved in the Library for your editor.
Can it put the images straight into our site or deck?
After you approve. The agent prepares the sizes, crops and alt text, then adds them to your WordPress page, Webflow site or Google Slides deck once you allow the change. It works through each app's connection, or in its own browser when the connection does not cover something.