Sound effects resources

An open community database of sfx, mfx and gfx. Aimed at the indie devs. Quality varies.

Open source, huge database. Good community feel.

A fairly large database of free, good quality sound effects, for use in your games or videos.

Large collection of royalty free sound effects and music with a nice interface. Decent prices. Over 100,000 music tracks, with a handy sub-genre search, and over 47,000 sound effects. The sound effects are awkwardly categorized as a genre. Formerly iStockPhoto Audio.

Over a million sound effects, on a site that claims to have been around since 1997. Approximately $3 per sound effect.

Professionally designed game sound effects at very affordable prices.

Fairly extensive collection of some nice graphics for your games. Most of them are free, and there's some gems in there. They also offer some paid assets, for a low price.

Large collection of royalty free sounds and music.

A collection of packaged sound effects of good quality, particularly sci-fi sounds effects. Some are paid, and some are available for free, and royalty-free

Large collection purchasable sound effects, organized into categories, with particularly good tagging, and a very nice interface. Price is approximately $3 per sound effect, but also has a subscription model where you pay an amount per month for a certain amount of sounds per month.

Medium sized set of sounds presented with a moderately usable interface

A large database of sound effects, organised into categories, with tags. Prices from $1, up to around $5.