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Image and Video API plus Digital Asset Management

One platform to optimize, transform, manage and deliver media assets, so developers ship faster, marketers iterate freely, and your users enjoy flawless visual experiences everywhere.

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Trusted by 300K developers and 2,500+ high-growth businesses in 80 countries

Why teams pick ImageKit

All the capabilities you expect from enterprise-grade media processing and DAM with zero-friction setup, fast delivery, and pricing that scales as you grow.
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Deliver optimized images and videos in minutes

Connect your existing storage like S3, Cloud Storage, Blob Storage, or more, and just swap your domain name to start delivering optimized images and videos instantly. No heavy migrations, no rewrites - just immediate performance gains. Expand into DAM workflows and AI features when you're ready.

Enterprise-grade capabilities minus the complexity

Granular access control, SSO, LLM-powered asset organization with custom vocabulary, Path Policies, Audit logs, headless integrations - plus 50+ real-time media optimizations and transformations. Everything you need to manage, transform, and govern assets with structure and control.

No billing surprises

Predictable pricing with fewer billing parameters, unlimited image transformations, usage alerts, discounted credits, and proactive support to keep you at the best possible plan. Scale traffic and assets without fearing runaway invoices.

Built for scale & security

We deliver billions of assets daily with high uptime, a global CDN, ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II certifications, multiple processing locations for data storage and GDPR compliance. Infrastructure you can rely on without operational overhead.

One API for images and video

Transform, optimize and deliver both images and videos through a single real-time URL-based API.

Connect any popular cloud storage or HTTP server, keep existing paths, and ditch multi-tool pipelines.

ImageKit’s unified API is built for developers who want to ship faster and iterate freely.

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Automatic image and video optimization

ImageKit analyzes each incoming request, the viewer's device capabilities, and the original file content in real-time to serve the lightest possible variant in modern formats like AVIF, WebP, MP4, or WebM without any URL changes.

With built-in quality adjustments, ImageKit balances image and video performance with visual quality without any manual effort.

Web performance optimization
Automatic optimization

Resize, crop & transform directly from the URL

Apply 50+ real-time transformations, from simple resizing and AI-powered smart crop to text overlays, image overlays and GenAI effects, directly through the asset URL. Deliver perfectly transformed images and videos on your website or app without any additional processing.

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Real-time transformations

Superfast on-demand video streaming

Stream optimized videos stored in any cloud storage or the integrated DAM. Load the video URL directly for simple progressive streaming, or add URL parameters to create HLS or DASH adaptive streams that adjust to the viewer's bandwidth. No custom pipelines, no webhooks, no extra storage. Just a great video delivery experience.

Video Streaming

AI-powered Digital Asset Management

Manage all your digital assets in one intelligent platform.

  • Automatic LLM-powered tagging and custom metadata using your vocabulary
  • AI-powered visual and natural language search
  • Granular permissions for secure sharing and collaboration
  • Governance with folder-level Path Policies and Audit logs
  • Headless DAM APIs and native integrations with CMS, PIM, and more
  • Integrated media processing and delivery for the web

Everything your team needs to stay organized, compliant, and ready to deliver at scale.

ImageKit DAM

Enterprise-grade security & lightning-fast delivery

From media delivery to upload APIs to the integrated DAM, every layer of ImageKit is secure.

ISO 27001 and GDPR-compliant controls, encryption in transit and at rest, automatic multi-region backups, signed URLs, WAF rules, and granular access policies keep your media safe and compliant with data regulations.

700+ CloudFront PoPs and seven processing regions keep media load times under 50ms worldwide.

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Integration in 3 steps

Don't spend time migrating your media files. ImageKit works with your existing storage. Alternatively, upload your assets in ImageKit's DAM.
Plan your integration

1

Set up your account

Link your existing cloud storage, HTTP server, or serve files via web proxy.


Or

Upload files directly to ImageKit via API, dashboard, or Rclone for bulk migration.

2

Switch delivery URLs

Update your base URLs to ImageKit or use a custom CNAME. Start delivering images and videos in optimized formats like AVIF, WebP, MP4, and WebM.

That's it! No code changes needed.

3

Adopt transformations

Resize, crop, remove backgrounds, and add overlays in real-time using URL-based transformations.

Use our SDKs to add transformations to your existing codebase.

Developer-first SDKs & plugins

Built with DevEx at our core—clear APIs, rock-solid SDKs, crystal-clean docs, and dev-to-dev support, so you can ship faster with confidence.

Better performance & UX with cost savings

Having access to individual sub-accounts for each business unit has been a game-changer. It allows our teams to try out new ideas quickly and keep track of how our media is performing. If there’s a problem with optimization in any business unit, we can address it promptly.

Farhan Rasheed
(Engineering Manager, Swiggy)

Top-notch visual experiences with enhanced operational efficiency

A beautiful thing ImageKit did was crack the code to deliver a seamless migration. Migrating from the previous third party to ImageKit was merely a day's process. ImageKit helped us migrate without having to move our storage or shut down the old CDN.

Sarang Purandare
(CTO, SaffronStays)

Sub-50ms load time for videos and images

ImageKit keeps things snappy for our users. Dynamic sizing, on-the-fly video thumbnails, video streaming, and a rock-solid CDN mean our images and videos show up fast in milliseconds and look good.

Jon Siragusa
(CTO)

Faster load time at 50% lower cost

ImageKit ensured a seamless transition without requiring changes to our storage from AWS S3 or domain name. By enabling faster load times and delivering optimized media at 50% cost savings, ImageKit has become an indispensable part of our tech stack.

Prabhat Sharma
(AVP Engineering)

Optimized bandwidth consumption by 25%

Effortlessly switched from our in-house image resizing solution to ImageKit. It helped make our web pages load faster on different devices and simplified our image workflow. It helped also us reduce our infrastructure costs!

Rupesh Kumar
(Director of Engineering, BigBasket)

30% faster load time, 60% smaller videos

With ImageKit, we have saved more than half the cost we incurred earlier. Further, it allowed us to leverage next-gen image formats, drastically improving our web and app performance across all platforms.

Vaibhav Jain
(Engineering Manager, BookMyShow)

Simplified image optimization

ImageKit allows us to deliver optimized images across web and mobile with minimal effort. We don't have to think much about compressing the images to the right size or delivering it in the right format. And it has made life simpler for our developers.

Sanjay Suri
(CTO, Nykaa.com)

35% reduction in bandwidth usage

Effortlessly switched from our in-house image resizing solution to ImageKit. It helped make our web pages load faster on different devices and simplified our image workflow. It also helped us reduce infrastructure cost!

Bharanidharan Viswanathan
(CEO, 91mobiles.com)

Improved web performance

ImageKit has made real-time image manipulation, optimization and resizing across devices really easy. It’s an out of the box plug & play offering with minimal changes in existing infrastructure. And yes, your images stay where they are!

Suyash Katyayani
(CTO, Purplle)

A must-have for any modern project!

ImageKit has changed the game with fast and reliable video and image delivery! The intelligent transcoding and compression algorithms optimize media delivery across all devices, allowing us to focus on building our products. Exceptional support and seamless integration make it a must-have for any modern project!

Robert Armstrong
(CEO, Appstem)

Optimizing images has never been easier

Images are a crucial part of any good website design. With different device sizes and screen aspect ratios, it can be time-consuming to prepare images in all the necessary dimensions. That's why our customers are always delighted to hear how we've automated this process for them with ImageKit. As a result, it has become one of our agency's standard tools for all web development projects.

Patrik Fluck
(CEO, Etrex)

Accelerating teams with a modern DAM

We've enabled over 270 team members to independently access and deploy hundreds of media assets, eliminating manual bottlenecks and accelerating speed to market. By modernizing asset management and distribution, we've strengthened operational agility and reinforced brand consistency across all customer and partner channels.

Raj Tiwari
(Senior VP of Digital and AI Transformation, Stanley Martin)

Centralized assets, better experiences

ImageKit has streamlined how we manage our media library. It gives us a clean, central space for our brand assets, allowing us to efficiently turn raw content into the high-conversion experiences our customers expect.

Bharat Murali
(Head of Engineering, Fermàt)

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