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ImageKit's real-time media processing APIs and Digital Asset Management platform help tech, marketing and creative teams to deliver, manage and collaborate on media assets at scale.
It offers a real-time URL-based API for image & video optimization, streaming, and over 50 transformations to deliver perfect visual experiences on websites and apps. ImageKit also comes integrated with a Digital Asset Management solution to store, manage, search, and collaborate on all digital assets via a dashboard or programmatically via APIs.
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ImageKit empowers tech, marketing, and creative teams to seamlessly deliver, manage, and collaborate on media assets for websites and apps at scale.
Trusted by over 150K developers and 2,000+ high-growth businesses in 80+ countries, it streamlines the media lifecycle on one platform for a seamless visual experience.
ImageKit offers -
- Real-time Media Processing: Deliver perfect images and videos on websites and apps in real time with a unified URL-based API with 50+ transformations, intelligent format optimizations, and compression.
- Adaptive Bitrate Streaming: Deliver a native Youtube-like streaming experience that adapts to your user's network
- Media Personalization: Personalize and create dynamic videos and images at scale with ImageKit's real-time, URL-based Layers transformation API.
- Fast global delivery: Deliver high-quality images and videos tailored to the user's device and bandwidth with our integrated CDN.
- Digital Asset Management (DAM): Central hub for digital assets like product images, banners, and social media posts to efficiently manage, search, and collaborate with internal and external stakeholders.
- Seamless media workflows: Build custom front ends & integrations with your apps, CMS, PIM, and other systems using powerful APIs and plugins.
Highlights
- 50+ real-time optimizations, transformations, and streaming capabilities via a URL-based image and video processing API.
- Real-time URL-based image and video transformation API to deliver perfect media across devices
- An integrated Digital Asset Management platform to efficiently manage, search, and collaborate on all digital assets with internal and external stakeholders.
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Dimension | Description | Cost/month |
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Premium Plan | 225GB bandwidth, 225GB storage, 5000 VPUs, 4000 Ext + other inclusions | $89.00 |
Dimension | Cost/unit |
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Additional bandwidth usage on the premium plan per 20 GB | $9.00 |
Additional Storage usage in the media library per 100GB | $9.00 |
Additional Video Processing Units in ImageKit per 10,000 VPUs | $9.00 |
Additional extension units in ImageKit per 5,000 units | $9.00 |
Additional user pricing per user | $9.00 |
Additional purge cache request pricing per 1,500 requests | $9.00 |
Additional custom domain name pricing per domain | $9.00 |
Additional original cache storage pricing per GB | $0.10 |
Dimensions summary
You start with the Premium Plan, which bundles set amounts of bandwidth, media library storage, video processing units, and extension units, plus other inclusions. This plan sets your base commitment. When your usage passes the included limits, you add capacity through separate usage-based dimensions. Each add-on is billed in its own unit block: bandwidth per 20 GB, storage per 100 GB, video processing per 10,000 VPUs, extensions per 5,000 units, purge requests per 1,500 requests, plus per-user, per-domain, and per-GB original cache charges. You only pay for the extra usage you consume.
Top-of-mind questions for buyers
VPUs depend on output video length and resolution. One second of SD video uses 1 unit, HD uses 2, 4K uses 4, and higher resolutions use more. You are charged only the first time a transformation runs. Later views of the same processed video count toward bandwidth, not VPUs.
Extension units power AI-based features like background removal and image tagging. Each task may use one or more units depending on complexity. The Premium Plan includes 4,000 units, with a default cap of 8,000 per month. You can contact support to raise this limit above 8,000.
Bandwidth counts the final delivered file size, multiplied by how often each file is accessed. Optimized files use less bandwidth than originals. The Premium Plan includes 225 GB. Once you pass that, you pay for additional bandwidth in 20 GB blocks. There is no cap on total traffic.
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Real-time Media Processing API
URL-based API with 50+ transformations for image and video optimization, intelligent format optimizations, and compression capabilities.
Adaptive Bitrate Streaming
Native adaptive bitrate streaming that adjusts video quality based on user's network conditions and bandwidth.
Digital Asset Management Platform
Centralized repository for storing, managing, searching, and collaborating on digital assets with dashboard and programmatic API access.
Media Personalization
Real-time URL-based Layers transformation API for creating dynamic and personalized videos and images at scale.
Global Content Delivery
Integrated CDN for fast global delivery of high-quality images and videos optimized for user's device and bandwidth requirements.
Content Delivery Network
Global CDN infrastructure for fast worldwide delivery of visual media with 99.99% success rate
Automated Image Optimization
Automatic optimization with bulk transformations, responsive design, and real-time rendering capabilities
Next-Generation Format Support
Automatic conversion to modern formats including AVIF, WebP, and HLS with on-the-fly rendering
Programmatic Media APIs
Over 150+ programmatic rendering APIs for image and video manipulation with generative AI capabilities
Image and Video Workflow Automation
Bulk upload, dynamic URL-based manipulation, optimization, and delivery across multiple CDNs for images and videos
Video Processing and Streaming
Real-time transcoding, adaptive bitrate streaming, and developer-friendly video player integration
AI-Powered Digital Asset Management
AI-based content analysis, automated search and tagging, and asset organization capabilities
API-Based SaaS Platform
Simple and robust API-based architecture for programmatic media management and integration
Global Content Distribution
Multi-CDN delivery with global distribution network and usage analytics for media assets
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Customer reviews
reviewer2858913
Image optimization has reduced storage and now improves page load times for high-traffic listings
Reviewed on Jun 26, 2026
Review from a verified AWS customer
What is our primary use case?
One of our subsidiaries, OLX Indonesia, works with ImageKit as an integration for video and image compression. When a user uploads a car image to our server, ImageKit compresses it and integrates it with our CDN system.
A specific example of how this works in practice is that from the user's standpoint, if a customer uploads an image to sell their used car, the image will be connected with our CDN. If the image exceeds our threshold size, ImageKit will compress it, which reduces our memory usage.
If the image size is compressed, from the user's standpoint, they can also load the image faster. This is how we are utilizing ImageKit.
What is most valuable?
ImageKit offers compression capabilities, and they can connect with any tech stack because they have an API and SDK with embedded integration, making ImageKit very flexible with all of the platforms we are using.
ImageKit has positively impacted our organization by reducing our page load times.
What needs improvement?
ImageKit can improve on the integration side because their downtime occurs quite often. Although they provide a fallback recall where image files that do not upload will be placed in a queue and automatically re-upload once the system returns to normal, sometimes any glitch on ImageKit will affect our brand perception. From the user's standpoint, they will claim that the error is coming from our brand, even though we are using ImageKit on the backbone.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using ImageKit for three years.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Regarding ImageKit's AI capabilities, I find that they are very compliant and trustworthy. Regarding the accuracy and reliability of its output, I find that they are very scalable.
What was our ROI?
Regarding specific outcomes, ImageKit can reduce our storage usage by approximately 30% year over year.
What other advice do I have?
My advice to others looking into using ImageKit is that if you would like to utilize it, you should put it on the most visited page or any product that has the highest traffic. With ImageKit, caching can be stored in their users' in-memory, which can reduce page load and improve lazy loading since the image loads asynchronously, providing a better user experience. I would rate this product a 9 out of 10.
Which deployment model are you using for this solution?
Public Cloud
If public cloud, private cloud, or hybrid cloud, which cloud provider do you use?
Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Edd Michira
Image optimization has reduced bandwidth costs and improves e‑commerce product delivery speed
Reviewed on Mar 31, 2026
Review provided by PeerSpot
What is our primary use case?
I use ImageKit for purposes similar to Cloudinary, including storage of images, CDN, and features where you can retouch, remove the background, and upscale an image.
When we upload products for e-commerce, the product images are rendered and stored in ImageKit, and they are rendered through CDN for faster optimization and delivery of the images. Since many products usually take a large chunk of bandwidth, the images are compressed, similar to what Cloudinary does, and delivered in an optimized way.
What is most valuable?
The features in ImageKit, especially the retouch feature where you can retouch an image, are great. You can upload an image and usually find a pop-up where you can remove the background, turning it into a PNG with a white background if you need it for that purpose.
You can also upscale an image, so a raw image with enough pixels becomes optimized, maintaining the quality while being compressed and not too large.
I use the real-time image manipulation functionality.
What needs improvement?
There is a huge disparity in the pricing model, from the free option to the $9 plan, then it jumps to the $89 plan, which is quite substantial. I think there could be something in between, maybe at $20 or $50.
The huge difference in pricing is the only inconvenience for me. I do not know the reasoning behind it, but I would have to think twice about upgrading.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using ImageKit for approximately one year.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
According to my experience, ImageKit is stable. I have not experienced challenges so far.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
ImageKit is very scalable.
How are customer service and support?
I have not had any experience with ImageKit's technical support, as I have not encountered challenges requiring it so far.
Which solution did I use previously and why did I switch?
I am currently using Cloudinary, but I am also using something else now. I currently do not use Cloudinary; I am using another tool called ImageKit.
How was the initial setup?
The installation process of ImageKit is quite fair and not very complicated. If you are a developer, the installation process is not very complicated.
What was our ROI?
There are clear savings with this tool, as I experience both time saving and money saving. Storing images myself would require tools like Photoshop for size reduction before uploading. Using VPS or hosting means the size affects storage cost and can significantly increase bandwidth costs. Loading large images can impact bandwidth heavily, leading to increased overall costs. The compression technique saves money, and the CDN improves user experience with faster load times because of caching and CDN delivery.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I would not say the pricing model is unfair. I just think the difference from the $9 to the $89 plan is significant. The pricing of ImageKit is fair.
What other advice do I have?
High-performance caching is very important to me. When you cache the images, such as for the most visited products and pages, it is faster to retrieve them because they are already in-memory. This means they load faster compared to accessing other products that are pulled from storage, which can take longer.
I do see an impact from lazy loading. With lazy loading, as a user accesses the product page, images load in an asynchronous way, meaning not all images load at once. For example, if there are ten products, they do not all load together, which saves bandwidth instead of loading all thousands of products at once.
For analytics, I rarely pay that much attention to them, though they are useful for monitoring the website. I have not experienced a challenge where I really need to go deep into the analytics; they are quite optimized primarily for bandwidth monitoring.
I have not experienced any technical disadvantages with ImageKit, though I have not tried their video storage and delivery aspect.
I would rate this review a 9 out of 10.