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ImageKit is an image and video optimization and delivery API with a DAM and creative automation for developers and teams.
Speech-to-text API infrastructure with multilingual real-time and batch transcription for building voice products.
Developer APIs and SDKs to embed real-time voice, video, live streaming, and AI voice agents into web and mobile apps.
Reinforcement-learning engine that auto-places and routes PCB layouts from existing CAD files, validated against physical constraints.
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Free trial available
Free trial available
No public pricing
- ✦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
- ✦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)
- ✦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
- ✦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
- ✦Imports existing projects from major ECAD tools
- ✦Generates thousands of candidate board layouts via reinforcement learning
- ✦Flags bypass capacitors, impedance nets, and differential pairs for review
- ✦Supports parallel iteration across stack-ups and manufacturers
- ✦Transparent design review against a full constraint checklist
- ✦Returns files in the same CAD format for DRC and fab-file generation
- →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
- →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
- →Transcribe voice-agent and contact-center calls
- →Power meeting-assistant note taking
- →Generate subtitles and media transcripts
- →Build voice products on one API
- →Embedding video and audio calling into web and mobile apps
- →Adding interactive live streaming to a platform
- →Building AI voice agent experiences into products
- →Speeding up IC evaluation board layout from weeks to hours
- →Cutting design validation board cycles from months to days
- →Reducing backplane and interconnect board bring-up time
- →Iterating multiple layout candidates in parallel before fabrication