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imgproxy

Self-hosted image server that resizes, crops and converts images on the fly from URL parameters, meant to run behind a CDN.

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Where it fits

Image & Video Hosting · Process it yourselfCloudinary-style resizing through URLs on a server you run, placed in front of your bucket and behind a CDN.Trade-off: You host and scale it and add the CDN yourself; some features, such as video thumbnails and object-aware cropping, are in the paid Pro edition.

How imgproxy itself is built

4 tools, from its own code, website and Product Hunt page.

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Who uses it

No maker's live product on record yet, and 1 open-source projects that declare it in their code.

Declared in code 1How evidence is collected →

We haven't found a maker's live product that uses imgproxy yet — only the open-source projects below, which declare it in their code.

Open source: a project that declares imgproxy as a dependency in its public code — verifiable, but not necessarily a live product.

Alternatives to imgproxy

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CloudinaryApps with lots of user-uploaded images and video that need crops, overlays and format conversion through URLs.47 makers · image & video hosting
ImageKitAdding resizing and optimization in front of storage you already have, such as an S3 bucket.20 makers · image & video hosting
MuxApps where video is the product — uploads encoded and streamed adaptively with a player and playback analytics.23 makers · image & video hosting
Bunny.netLow per-GB cost for storage, CDN delivery, image optimization and video streaming from one vendor.
sharpResizing, cropping and converting images to WebP or AVIF inside your own Node code, at upload or build time.Open source
CloudflareImage resizing and video streaming from the same account that already runs your DNS and CDN, through Cloudflare Images and Stream.Free tier

Questions makers ask about imgproxy

Is imgproxy open source or self-hostable?

Open source, and you can self-host it. source ↗

Can AI coding agents work with imgproxy?

No llms.txt, official MCP server or CLI found yet.

Who uses imgproxy?

No maker's live product we track yet; 1 open-source projects declare it in their code. source ↗