Image processing

imgix

URL-based real-time image processing and CDN, billed in monthly credits shared across cache storage, renders and delivery bandwidth.

Pricing

Published rates converted using workload assumptions. Read the notes. Converts credits to images and bandwidth assuming 1 MB per origin image; origin-cache retention changes storage cost. How to read these estimates.

CURRENT (credit) PRICING: bundles of Starter $25/100 credits, Basic $75/375, Midrange $150/830, Growth $300/1,875, Growth Plus $500/3,570 (about $0.25-$0.14 per credit; 15% off annually). Overage credits cost 120% of the plan's per-credit price ($0.30/$0.24/$0.22/$0.19/$0.17 per docs.imgix.com/en-US/references/billing-overview; the pricing page shows $0.12 for Growth Plus, but 500/3,570 = $0.14 and the docs list $0.14 / $0.17 overage). Consumption: delivery 1 credit/GB, management (cache storage and metadata) 2 credits/GB/month, standard renders 1 credit per 500 (advanced renders 1 per 50, premium/AI 1 per render). Conversion: per_gb = 1 credit and per_1k_transformations = 2 credits, both at the overage rate. Credits are one shared pool; this model puts the included credits against bandwidth, so it overstates the bill when bandwidth is below the bundle size. There is NO per-origin-image fee any more; the remaining per-source cost is cache storage. per_1k_source assumes ~1 MB per origin image held in the origin cache (1 GB per 1,000 = 2 credits/month); the default Origin Cache Retention is 45 days since last access, so the real figure scales with your file sizes. Renders are only billed on cache misses, so transformations_k should count unique renders, not page views. HISTORY (imgix.com/pricing via the Wayback Machine): 2014 plans billed renders ($50/month for 50k renders, then $2.50 per 1,000, $0.12/GB). By 2016 to January 2021 it was pay-as-you-go at $3 per 1,000 master (origin) images accessed each month plus $0.08/GB, with unlimited derivatives free. From about mid-2021 there were tiered plans counted in origin images per month: Free (1,000), Basic $75 (5,000), Growth $300 (25,000), with bandwidth "included" (later capped at 100 GB / 500 GB / 2.5 TB). By 2025 the self-serve overage was $15 per 1,000 origin images on Basic and $12 on Growth ($9 at the $600+/month Standard tier). That model charged every unique source image, which is why user-generated content dominated bills. The credit model replaced it between July and September 2025 (Wayback snapshots of 29 Jun 2025 show origin images, 7 Sep 2025 show credits); imgix says the old origin-image model "made it difficult to offer newer capabilities like video and AI". UGC preset (1M sources, 5M renders, 20 TB): about $5,300/month on Growth Plus with overage now, vs about $4,600 under the $3/1,000 + $0.08/GB model (65% of it origin images) and $12,000+ in origin-image overage on 2021-2025 Growth. Legal entity Zebrafish Labs, Inc.; standard DPA incorporated automatically (imgix.com/privacy). No EU-only processing option is published.

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