XVideos: a giant free library, looser upload checks.

What is XVideos?

XVideos is a free porn video site launched in Paris in 2007 by French entrepreneur Stéphane Pacaud. It’s run from Prague by his company, WGCZ, which also owns its sister site XNXX, the studio brand Bang Bros and Penthouse.

It’s one of the most-visited websites in the world. In late 2025 it ranked around 30th overall and third among porn sites, behind Pornhub and xHamster. Together, XVideos and XNXX were reported to get about 6 billion visits a month in 2023.

How XVideos works

You stream for free and find videos through search, tags and recommendations. The library mixes amateur uploads with official channels from studios and performers, some of which share in the site’s ad revenue.

The selection is enormous and quality varies a lot, from phone videos to full studio scenes. It suits people who know what they’re searching for and don’t mind digging.

What’s free and what isn’t

Everything on the main site is free and paid for by ads. XVideos RED is an optional paid tier that removes them; like most subscriptions, it renews until you cancel.

In Europe, XVideos has added age checks rather than pull out. UK visitors have had to prove their age since the Online Safety Act rules took effect in July 2025, and French visitors since late August 2025. The US is another story: Florida sued its operator in August 2025 for ignoring the state’s age-check law, and the site has run banners calling age verification a “scam”.

Where the videos come from

This is the weak spot. Pornhub has taken uploads only from verified users since 2020; we couldn’t find any sign that XVideos has adopted the same rule, so you can’t always tell who posted a video or whether everyone in it agreed. A 2021 US lawsuit by a trafficking victim alleged the sites took no steps to check her age or identity, and said she had asked XVideos and XNXX to remove her abuse videos since 2017; they came down after a lawyer’s letter in 2020.

In August 2026 a US appeals court upheld the dismissal of that case, ruling that the platform is shielded from liability for what users upload, so the claims were never tested on the facts. In the EU, regulators opened an investigation into XVideos in May 2025 and said in March 2026, in preliminary findings, that it had failed to protect minors. XVideos rejected the findings.