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ImageKit is an image and video optimization and delivery API with a DAM and creative automation for developers and teams.
Unified API gateway to 500+ AI models (GPT, Claude, Sora, image/video) with OpenAI-compatible endpoints and discounted usage.
Real-time voice, video, chat, and conversational-AI SDKs/APIs for developers building interactive communication features into apps.
Speech-to-text API infrastructure with multilingual real-time and batch transcription for building voice products.
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No public pricing
No public pricing
Free trial available
No public pricing
Free trial available
- ✦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
- ✦Single OpenAI-compatible API for 500+ models
- ✦Chat, image, video and audio models
- ✦Discounted per-request pricing
- ✦One dashboard for keys, quotas and usage
- ✦Multi-region routing and failover (99.9% uptime)
- ✦Multiple payment methods incl. crypto
- ✦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)
- ✦Video and voice call SDKs
- ✦Live streaming SDK for interactive broadcasts
- ✦In-app chat API
- ✦Cloud recording of audio/video streams
- ✦AI face effects and digital-human generation
- ✦Conversational AI agent building tools
- ✦20+ pre-built UIKits for rapid app development
- ✦Real-time cloud speech transcription
- ✦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
- →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
- →Accessing many AI models via one API
- →Cutting AI model API costs
- →Building multimodal AI apps
- →Consolidating AI billing and keys
- →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
- →App developers adding live video or voice chat
- →Social and dating apps needing engagement features
- →Telehealth platforms requiring secure video calls
- →E-commerce brands adding live-streaming shopping
- →Education platforms needing interactive whiteboards
- →Transcribe voice-agent and contact-center calls
- →Power meeting-assistant note taking
- →Generate subtitles and media transcripts
- →Build voice products on one API