Cantaloupe vs PhotoZoom Pro
Cantaloupe
cantaloupe-project.github.io
PhotoZoom Pro
benvista.comSide by side
| Figure | Cantaloupe | PhotoZoom Pro |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | €79/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | — |
| Windows | — | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 3 |
| Spec score · Photo Resizing Software | 7.9 (#10) | 8.0 (#9) |
| Intended users | The documentation describes production deployment and tuning, including controls for limiting image scale, pixel size, request threads, and queue length. | BenVista says it aims to make its digital imaging software accessible to both professionals and home users. |
| Purpose | Cantaloupe is an open-source dynamic image server that generates image derivatives on demand from high-resolution source images. | PhotoZoom Pro 9 enlarges and downsizes digital photos and graphics using S-Spline Max AI image resizing technology. |
| Support | The project directs questions and comments to GitHub Discussions and bug reports or feature requests to GitHub Issues. | The EULA says BenVista may provide support services and lists [email protected] for questions about the EULA or other contact reasons. |
Plans
PhotoZoom Pro
- PhotoZoom Pro 9€79 a month
- Upgrade to PhotoZoom Pro 9$49, paid once
- PhotoZoom Pro 9$89, paid once
In their own words
Cantaloupe
Cantaloupe is a free, open-source, self-hosted image server that creates derivatives from high-resolution sources when requested. It can crop, scale, and rotate images for deep-zoom viewers and on-demand thumbnails, and conforms to every IIIF Image API version through 3.0. Sources may be filesystems, HTTP or HTTPS servers, S3, Azure Storage, or relational database BLOBs. Processing choices include Java 2D, JAI, TurboJPEG, Kakadu, OpenJPEG, Grok, FFmpeg, and PDFBox. Caches can use filesystem, Java heap, JDBC, S3, Azure Storage, or Redis implementations. Security options include selective image and text watermarking, image-region redaction, HTTPS, HTTP Basic authentication, and customizable authorization policies. Configuration uses environment variables or a .properties file, with most changes applying without restart. Java 17 is required at minimum. The project says no official Docker image is currently available.
PhotoZoom Pro
PhotoZoom Pro has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.