imgproxy
Open-source, self-hosted image resizing and conversion server written in Go, with a paid Pro edition.
The open-source server has no per-image or transformation fee. You provide compute, storage and a CDN, and maintain the service yourself. Choose hosting and delivery regions to match your data requirements. Pro adds advanced compression, dynamic watermarks, video previews and priority support for $49/month or $499/year across up to 16 workers.
- Headquarters
- 🇺🇸 United States
- Parent jurisdiction
- 🇺🇸 United States
- EU self-serve plan
- Available; check eligible plans and regions
- GDPR DPA
- No / not documented
- Billing
- self-hosted
- Free tier
- Open-source edition is free (Apache 2.0)
- Open source
- Yes · self-hostable
- Website
- imgproxy.net
- Source last checked
- 2026-10-06
- Pricing evidence
- Operating cost not estimated
Pricing
Operating cost not estimated · servers, licenses and engineering time are yours. See notes for software editions and license terms.
Self-hosted: budget for compute, storage, CDN, bandwidth and maintenance. No per-image, per-transformation or bandwidth fees, and data stays wherever you run it. Optional imgproxy Pro (advanced compression, dynamic watermarks, video previews, priority support) is $49/month or $499/year for up to 16 workers in total; Enterprise for more workers is priced on request. imgproxy.net is run by Foxes with Matches Inc.
Managed alternatives
At 50K unique source images / month, 500K transformations / month, 2,000 GB image bandwidth / month. Adjust usage and requirements.
imgproxy has no bill to estimate: you pay for the servers, storage and time to run it. The cheapest managed option here is Bunny Optimizer at $354/yr, so running imgproxy yourself saves money only if hosting and upkeep stay below about $30 a month.
- Bunny Optimizer: $354/yr estimatedPublished rates
- Cloudflare Images: $2,460/yr estimatedModeled ratesConverts delivery requests to bandwidth assuming 100 KB per delivered image. Cached deliveries still count.
- Vercel Image Optimization: $2,880/yr estimatedModeled ratesCache-write cost assumes 100 KB output images. Cache behavior, sizes and regional rates change cost.
- Netlify Image CDN: $3,528/yr estimatedPublished rates
- imgix: $6,393/yr estimatedModeled ratesConverts credits to images and bandwidth assuming 1 MB per origin image; origin-cache retention changes storage cost.
No cheaper managed estimate matches your filters. Adjust your usage or compare with your actual contract bill.
The price difference leaves out migration costs, operating costs and any features you’d need to replace.
Self-hosted options
Operating cost is not estimated. These options are not counted as savings against managed services.
Want a European-owned provider? See European alternatives to imgproxy among european image processing providers.
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