sharp

High-performance Node.js image processing library, built on libvips, for resizing, cropping and converting to WebP and AVIF.

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Where it fits

Image & Video Hosting · Process it yourselfResizing, cropping and converting images to WebP or AVIF inside your own Node code, at upload or build time.Trade-off: Runs on your server's CPU and memory, which is tight on serverless; storage and CDN delivery are still yours to set up.

How sharp itself is built

1 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 240 open-source projects that declare it in their code.

Declared in code 240How evidence is collected →

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

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hexclave The user infrastructure platform. You choose the frontend, backend, and database. Hexcla…Image & Video HostingIn its code · source ↗

lmnr Laminar - open-source observability platform purpose-built for AI agents. YC S24.Image & Video HostingIn its code · source ↗

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note-companion Note Companion: AI assistant for Obsidian that goes beyond just a chat. (prev File Organ…Image & Video HostingIn its code · source ↗

pipeshub-ai PipesHub is an open-source platform for securely connecting enterprise knowledge to AI.…Image & Video HostingIn its code · source ↗

quests The open-source app builderImage & Video HostingIn its code · source ↗

refly The first open-source agent skills builder. Define skills by vibe workflow, run on Claud…Image & Video HostingIn its code · source ↗

scira Scira (Formerly MiniPerplx) is a minimalistic AI-powered search engine that helps you fi…Image & Video HostingIn its code · source ↗

tracecat Open-source security automation platform for teams and AI agentsImage & Video HostingIn its code · source ↗

appimage.github.io Given an URL to an AppImage, the GitHub action in this project inspects the AppImage and…Image & Video HostingIn its code · source ↗

archestra Enterprise AI Platform with guardrails, MCP registry, gateway & orchestratorImage & Video HostingIn its code · source ↗

cherry-studio AI productivity studio with smart chat, autonomous agents, and 300+ assistants. Unified…Image & Video HostingIn its code · source ↗

continue open-source coding agentImage & Video HostingIn its code · source ↗

hash 🚀 The open-source, multi-tenant platform for self-building knowledge graphs and simulat…Image & Video HostingIn its code · source ↗

plasmic Visual builder for React. Build apps, websites, and content. Integrate with your codebase.Image & Video HostingIn its code · source ↗

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

Alternatives to sharp

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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.

imgproxyCloudinary-style resizing through URLs on a server you run, placed in front of your bucket and behind a CDN.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 sharp

Is sharp open source or self-hostable?

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

Can AI coding agents work with sharp?

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

Who uses sharp?

No maker's live product we track yet; 240 open-source projects declare it in their code. source ↗