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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.
Developer APIs and SDKs to embed real-time voice, video, live streaming, and AI voice agents into web and mobile apps.
Local deep packet inspection and network intelligence giving businesses full visibility into application, VPN and Tor traffic.
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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
- ✦Fully managed TiDB service
- ✦Easy deployment on AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, and Alibaba Cloud
- ✦Scalable and reliable MySQL-compatible database
- ✦Elastic scaling of storage, transactional, and analytical workloads
- ✦Robust security compliance (SOC 1/2/3, ISO 27001/27701, PCI DSS, GDPR, HIPAA)
- ✦Audio and video calling APIs and SDKs
- ✦Interactive live streaming APIs and SDKs
- ✦AI voice agent integration
- ✦Web and mobile platform support
- ✦Pay-as-you-go pricing with one-time $20 free credit
- ✦Local deep packet inspection agent
- ✦Application identification data feeds
- ✦VPN and Tor IP datasets
- ✦Network informatics and analytics
- ✦Developer documentation
- →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
- →Building mission-critical applications requiring scalable and reliable databases
- →Managing and scaling transactional and analytical workloads
- →Deploying databases across multiple cloud providers and regions
- →Ensuring data security and compliance with industry standards
- →Embedding video and audio calling into web and mobile apps
- →Adding interactive live streaming to a platform
- →Building AI voice agent experiences into products
- →Classify application traffic on a network
- →Detect VPN and Tor usage
- →Feed DPI data into security and analytics tools