XNXX: XVideos’ older sibling, same loose rules.

What is XNXX?

XNXX is a free porn video site and the older sibling of XVideos. Its domain was registered to French entrepreneur Stéphane Pacaud in Paris in 2002, five years before XVideos, and both are now run by his Prague-based company, WGCZ.

It’s one of the most-visited sites in the world: in early 2026 it ranked around 44th overall and fourth among porn sites, behind Pornhub, xHamster and XVideos. The EU named it a “very large online platform” in July 2024, which puts it under the bloc’s strictest online rules.

How XNXX works

You can watch for free, and registration is optional. You find videos through search, tags and recommendations, and the library mixes amateur uploads with professional videos.

If you’ve used XVideos, it will feel familiar: same owner, same kind of catalogue and the same approach to uploads. It’s more a second door into the same world than a different site.

What’s free and what isn’t

Watching is free and the site is paid for by ads. If you’re offered paid upgrades or downloads, check they really come from xnxx.com before you pay.

XNXX has added age checks where European law demands them. UK visitors have had to prove their age since July 2025, using a third-party check such as a selfie age estimate or a code sent to a UK mobile, and French visitors since late August 2025. In the US, Florida’s August 2025 lawsuit over its age-check law named XNXX’s operator alongside XVideos’.

Where the videos come from

XNXX shares XVideos’ weak spot. We couldn’t find any sign that it limits uploads to verified users, as Pornhub has since 2020, so you can’t always tell who posted a video or whether everyone in it agreed. Its operator was a defendant in the same 2021 US lawsuit in which a trafficking victim said she had asked XVideos and XNXX for years to remove her abuse videos; an appeals court upheld the case’s dismissal in August 2026 on legal-immunity grounds.

In the EU, regulators opened an investigation in May 2025 and said in March 2026, in preliminary findings, that XNXX had failed to protect minors and hadn’t properly reflected its consultations with children’s rights groups. A 2026 academic review also noted that XNXX hadn’t yet published the risk assessment that XVideos and Pornhub had.