Cloudflare Images vs imgix
Cloudflare Images
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imgix
imgix.comSide by side
| Figure | Cloudflare Images | imgix |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $0.50/mo | $25/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | — |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 6 |
| Spec score · Image CDN services | 9.2 (#1) | 8.9 (#5) |
| Automatic optimization | Yes | Images can be compressed, resized, and converted in real time without code changes. |
| AVIF support | Yes | Yes |
| Custom domains | The documentation includes support for serving images from custom domains. | Yes |
| Founded | 2009 | 2011 |
| Free plan | Yes | The page describes a free 30-day trial rather than a continuing free plan. |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States | San Francisco, California, United States |
| Responsive images | Yes | Yes |
| Security controls | Cloudflare recommends WAF, Bot Management, and Rate Limiting to protect image optimization requests from abuse. | Imgix sanitizes SVGs by default, supports signed URLs that reject missing or altered signatures with HTTP 403, and enables HTTPS/TLS automatically on standard imgix.net subdomains. |
| Support | Cloudflare provides an Images community forum and Discord for questions and discussion with developers and the Images team. | Customers can open dashboard tickets, email [email protected], consult setup documentation and FAQs, and enterprise customers can use a customer success manager. |
| URL transformations | Yes | Yes |
Plans
imgix
- Starter$25 a month
- Basic$75 a month
- Midrange$150 a month
- Growth$300 a month
- Growth Plus$500 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
In their own words
Cloudflare Images
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imgix
imgix is a visual media platform for image and video workflows, available through web and API. Connect an asset location, such as Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, or a web folder, and serve media through its Rendering API. URL parameters expose more than 150 image transformations, including cropping, masking, color adjustments, text overlays, and responsive resizing; images are automatically optimized and AVIF is supported. AI tools can upscale images, remove or replace backgrounds, remove objects, generate fills, create alt text, and add image tags. Video support includes adaptive HLS or DASH streaming from 360p up to 4K, capped by the source, and a stated limit of 30 minutes per video. Captions can be generated from video audio and translated into more than 100 languages. Pricing uses credits for media management, delivery, and transformations. Starter costs $25 a month and includes 100 credits per month; the free trial requires no credit card. There is no free plan.