Aspose.Imaging vs libvips
Aspose.Imaging
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| Figure | Aspose.Imaging | libvips |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 9 | 1 |
| Spec score · Image Converter Software | 9.5 (#1) | 7.7 (#20) |
| Image formats | The converter supports raster and vector inputs and outputs such as JPG, JPEG2000, BMP, TIFF, GIF, PNG, DICOM, SVG, PDF, PSD, WEBP, EMF and WMF. | It supports formats including JPEG, JPEG 2000, JPEG XL, TIFF, PNG, WebP, HEIC, AVIF, FITS, Matlab, OpenEXR, PDF, SVG, GIF, DeepZoom and OpenSlide. |
| Integrations | Listed integrations and deployment options include Microsoft SharePoint and JasperReports, plus .NET, Java, and Python via .NET APIs. | The site lists Mastodon, sharp, imgproxy, wsrv.nl, bimg, Ruby on Rails, CarrierWave and MediaWiki as users of libvips as an image processing engine. |
| Support | Aspose lists free technical support through its forum and offers paid support options alongside documentation and knowledge-base resources. | The official site links to documentation, issues and a wiki. |
Plans
Aspose.Imaging
- Aspose.Imaging ConversionFree
- Online ConversionFree
- Aspose.Imaging API$999, paid once
- Aspose.Imaging platform license$999, paid once
- Developer Small Business (Python via .NET)$999, paid once
- Family pack$1,399, paid once
- Developer OEM (Python via .NET)$2,997, paid once
- Site Small Business (Python via .NET)$4,995, paid once
- Site OEM (Python via .NET)$13,986, paid once
In their own words
Aspose.Imaging
Aspose.Imaging combines browser-based image conversion with APIs and other image-processing tools. Its Conversion app handles raster and vector images, with output formats including PDF, PSD, GIF, PNG, DICOM, JPG, SVG, APNG, BMP, TIFF, WEBP, HTML5 Canvas, EMF, and WMF. A single operation can process up to 10 files. The browser service works on any operating system with a web browser and does not require installation. The wider product family includes tools for watermarking, reverse image search, object detection, compression, resizing, cropping, rotation, merging, deskewing, and background removal. Developers can use.NET and Java APIs or cloud REST APIs; Cloud SDKs are listed for C#, Python, PHP, Java, Android, Node.js, and Ruby. Integrations include Microsoft SharePoint and JasperReports. The browser conversion app is free, while the API plan is listed at $999 as a one-time purchase. Uploaded files are removed after 24 hours, when their download links also stop working.
libvips
libvips is an image-processing library built for demand-driven work across multiple threads, with low memory use. Its roughly 300 operations cover arithmetic, histograms, convolution, morphology, frequency filtering, colour, resampling and statistics. It handles formats including JPEG, JPEG 2000, JPEG XL, TIFF, PNG, WebP, HEIC, AVIF, FITS, Matlab, OpenEXR, PDF, SVG, GIF, DeepZoom and OpenSlide. Developers can use C, C++, command-line tools, or bindings for Ruby, Python, PHP,.NET, Go, Lua, Crystal, Elixir, Java and Nim. Packages are available for most Unix-like systems, and libvips can also be installed on macOS and Windows. Windows downloads include a web-focused build with a limited reader set and a larger build with all supported readers; the project advises care before publicly deploying the latter. Optional dependencies and build choices can be selected from source. Use cases include large images, many CPUs, colour work, scientific analysis and general research and development. Its official GUI is nip4, and the library is licensed under LGPL-2.1-or-later. The listed plan is free.