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ImageKit is an image and video optimization and delivery API with a DAM and creative automation for developers and teams.
Managed ClickHouse platform giving developers hosted ingestion and query APIs to ship real-time analytics products fast.
Speech-to-text API infrastructure with multilingual real-time and batch transcription for building voice products.
Serverless cloud browser API with persistent sessions, built-in stealth and proxies, for AI agents, automation and scraping.
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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
- ✦Managed, hosted ClickHouse database
- ✦Sub-second SQL query APIs
- ✦Kafka and other data connectors
- ✦Safe, zero-downtime schema migrations
- ✦Git-based branching with zero-copy prod data
- ✦SOC 2 Type II enterprise security
- ✦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
- ✦Serverless cloud Chromium browsers
- ✦Persistent logged-in sessions
- ✦Built-in stealth / anti-detect fingerprinting
- ✦Residential & datacenter proxies in 150+ countries
- ✦Playwright/Puppeteer WebSocket connection
- ✦Headful mode for live inspection
- →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 real-time analytics dashboards
- →Powering in-app usage or event analytics
- →Streaming Kafka topics into query-ready tables
- →Letting AI coding agents build and deploy analytics
- →Transcribe voice-agent and contact-center calls
- →Power meeting-assistant note taking
- →Generate subtitles and media transcripts
- →Build voice products on one API
- →Running AI browser agents
- →Web scraping at scale
- →Automating logged-in workflows
- →Debugging automation in live sessions