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Hive vs Thumbor

Hive

github.com

Thumbor

thumbor.org

Side by side

FigureHiveThumbor
Price from$5/moFree
Free planYesYes
Free trialYes—
Open sourceYes—
WebYes—
WindowsYes—
macOSYes—
LinuxYesYes
iOSYes—
AndroidYes—
APIYesYes
Self-hosted—Yes
Plans published41
Spec score · Image Compression Software8.6 (#11)8.4 (#19)

Plans

Hive

  • FreeFree
  • Starter$5 a month
  • Teams$12 a month
  • EnterprisePriced on request

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Thumbor

  • ThumborFree

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In their own words

Hive

Hive brings projects, tasks, approvals, billing, and related team work into one platform. Teams can plan with project views, dashboards, goals, live reporting, templates, custom fields, and portfolios, then collaborate through Notes, action cards with comments and attachments, and forms for internal or external teammates. Its listed AI tools draft email replies, convert meeting transcripts into action items, build projects, proof content, and create dashboard widgets. Hive lists more than 1,000 integrations, including Google Drive, Zoom, Microsoft Teams, Jira, Slack, and QuickBooks. The Free plan is described for light project management and includes unlimited tasks and collaborative Notes, 200MB of storage, and up to 10 workspace members. Starter is an entry-level plan with up to 10 members and 10 projects. Free is free forever; Starter costs $5.00 per user per month and Teams costs $12.00 per user per month. Hive says workspace content stays private to the organization and describes network security controls and hourly backups. It requires an internet connection, so offline access is unavailable.

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Thumbor

Thumbor is a self-hosted image service for on-demand cropping, resizing and flipping. Its smart mode looks for faces when choosing a crop and falls back to feature detection if it finds none. Filters can be chained, including brightness, contrast, grayscale, red-eye and blur. Thumbor supports WebP delivery to browsers that can display the format, and its listed capabilities include responsive images, automatic optimization and AVIF support. File, HTTP, Redis and Mongo implementations are available for loaders and storage. The service can be extended with custom filters, storage, loaders, engines, detection and optimizers. A SECURITY_KEY can be used to sign image URLs with HMAC to help guard against tampering. The default HTTP loader uses HTTP; the documentation also describes HTTPS and strict HTTPS options. Thumbor is distributed as a Python package, and current releases require Python 3.10 or newer. The project describes it as open source and lists an MIT license. Its platforms include API, Linux and self-hosted use. The listed plan costs nothing.

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