Open Source Alternatives to Cloudinary
A media management platform that stores, optimizes, and delivers images and video through AI-powered APIs, offering digital asset management, transformation, and CDN distribution for web and app developers.
Whether you want to cut software costs or escape vendor lock-in, these open source alternatives to Cloudinary give you an option you fully own. You can self-host them, so your data stays on infrastructure you control. This page lists 4 open source alternatives to Cloudinary. The most popular are imgproxy, thumbor and Flyimg. Most use the AGPL-3.0 or Apache-2.0 license, and 4 offer an official Docker image.
imgproxy
A standalone server for resizing, processing, and converting images on the fly via HTTP requests.
thumbor
An imaging service for on-demand cropping, resizing, and optimizing images using AI powered smart detection.
Flyimg
Resizes, crops, and compresses images on the fly using a Dockerized service with efficient caching.
Openinary
A self-hosted media processing platform for on-the-fly image and video transformations via URL and REST API.
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