JPEGmini vs Thumbor

JPEGmini recompresses images and video to reduce file size while preserving visual quality. The maker says standard JPEG photo sizes can be reduced by up to 80%, depending on resolution. Desktop Pro optimizes JPEG and HEIC images; paid plans also support H.264 and H.265 video compression. Desktop plans include batch processing, while paid Automations plans add watch folders, background processing, and batch presets. Pro + Plugins lists integrations for Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop, and Capture One. JPEGmini also offers a Photo Server that runs on company servers and a Cloud service for wedding photographers and filmmakers, which sorts uploaded photos and footage by people into galleries. Cloud capacity varies by tier: Free holds one wedding and 5 GB, Pro holds 55 weddings and 100 GB, and Studio holds 275 weddings and 500 GB. The Cloud FAQ says files are stored in AWS US East and encrypted in transit and at rest; uploaded media is not used to train AI models. Desktop software processes files locally, and users retain ownership of uploaded content. Desktop plans list Linux, macOS, web, and Windows platforms.

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.