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ImageKit is an image and video optimization and delivery API with a DAM and creative automation for developers and teams.
Search, crawling and research API built for AI agents, with token-efficient results and structured web-data enrichment.
Speech-to-text API infrastructure with multilingual real-time and batch transcription for building voice products.
Cloud deployment platform for developers that auto-detects code and frameworks to ship apps, servers, and AI-hub services with one push.
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- ✦Real-time image/video optimization and URL-based transforms
- ✦AI and GenAI transforms (smart crop, background removal, generative fill, upscaling)
- ✦Global CDN delivery with sub-50ms response
- ✦AI-powered digital asset management
- ✦Creative automation for on-brand banners at scale
- ✦SDKs and integrations for major stacks and CMSs
- ✦Web search API tuned for agents
- ✦Full-page contents with token-efficient highlights
- ✦Asynchronous agents for deep research and enrichment
- ✦Structured outputs with grounded citations
- ✦Web monitors that track new events on a schedule
- ✦Zero data retention and SOC 2 Type II controls
- ✦Real-time multilingual speech-to-text (<300ms)
- ✦Batch/async transcription
- ✦Solaria speech models
- ✦Key-entity capture and enrichment
- ✦EU data residency
- ✦Free tier and playground
- ✦Automatic language and framework detection and deployment
- ✦Git-push CI/CD with zero configuration
- ✦Auto-scaling compute resources
- ✦Built-in object storage similar to S3
- ✦One-click managed VPS purchase
- ✦Unified AI Hub API for multiple AI models
- ✦Domain and DNS management
- ✦In-browser file management console
- →Speeding up website and app media performance
- →Optimizing e-commerce and media images and video
- →Centralized digital asset management and collaboration
- →Adaptive video streaming
- →Generating thousands of on-brand banner variations
- →Give coding agents current docs and repo context
- →Power chatbots with real-time web answers
- →Enrich company and people data at scale
- →Monitor the web for fresh events
- →Transcribe voice-agent and contact-center calls
- →Power meeting-assistant note taking
- →Generate subtitles and media transcripts
- →Build voice products on one API
- →Developers deploying apps without manual server config
- →Teams wanting predictable, fixed-plan hosting costs
- →Startups needing quick CI/CD pipelines
- →Projects needing bundled AI model access alongside hosting