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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.
Serverless cloud browser API with persistent sessions, built-in stealth and proxies, for AI agents, automation and scraping.
Local deep packet inspection and network intelligence giving businesses full visibility into application, VPN and Tor traffic.
Open-source asset-based data orchestrator, with Dagster+ cloud, for building, observing and delivering reliable data and AI pipelines.
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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
- ✦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
- ✦Local deep packet inspection agent
- ✦Application identification data feeds
- ✦VPN and Tor IP datasets
- ✦Network informatics and analytics
- ✦Developer documentation
- ✦Asset-based pipeline orchestration
- ✦Built-in lineage and data-quality checks
- ✦Data catalog with asset metadata
- ✦Native dbt, Snowflake and Fivetran integrations
- ✦Branch deployments and hybrid deployment
- ✦Open-source core plus managed Dagster+ cloud
- →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
- →Running AI browser agents
- →Web scraping at scale
- →Automating logged-in workflows
- →Debugging automation in live sessions
- →Classify application traffic on a network
- →Detect VPN and Tor usage
- →Feed DPI data into security and analytics tools
- →Orchestrate ETL/ELT and dbt pipelines
- →Monitor data health and lineage
- →Build AI/ML data pipelines
- →Run reliable, observable data platforms