ImageBoss
The facts below are what the maker publishes about ImageBoss, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From ImageBoss's own pricing page, checked 20 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Pay As You Grow | — | 4,200 master images included in the $5 monthly minimum · 5 GB data transfer included in the $5 monthly minimum |
| Pay as you go | $5 a month | Includes 4200 master images · 5GB data transfer · unlimited transformations and requests · excess bandwidth $0.10 per GB · Minimum to keep account active |
The facts
Each one read from ImageBoss's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Automatic optimization
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- AVIF support
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Compression
- Images are compressed and cached by default, and compression can be disabled with a URL option.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Content-aware cropping
- ImageBoss says it identifies image content to preserve the subject when cropping to requested dimensions.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Custom domains
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- How it works
- It fetches origin images on demand, applies URL-specified transformations, and serves the results without requiring changes to the image backend.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Image formats
- Automatic format selection can deliver WebP or AVIF when supported by the user's device, and the service lists JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, and GIF support.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Image sources
- Documented image sources include web proxy, Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, DigitalOcean Spaces, Cloudflare R2, Akamai Object Storage, Wasabi, and Microsoft Azure.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The documentation lists integrations for WordPress, Shopify, Magento, Ruby, Ruby on Rails, React, Vue.js, Go, Elixir, JavaScript, and Node.js.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The site presents ImageBoss as an image-processing API for web developers who want to handle image optimization without dedicated image-processing machines or developers.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Notable service limit
- The terms say the API service does not involve image hosting or storage, apart from limited caching, so users connect their own image hosting or storage location.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Paid from
- 5checked 20 Sep 2026
- Pricing limits
- Only active master images are billed; transformations and requests are unlimited, and included bandwidth grows with active master images.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Privacy and security practices
- The privacy policy says ImageBoss takes reasonable measures to protect information and may share it with vendors and service providers; the policy was last updated March 29, 2018.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Responsive images
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Security
- ImageBoss supports optional signed URLs using HMAC-SHA256, including time-limited URLs, and says it acts as a proxy for private image sources.checked 8 Oct 2026
- Support
- The integration documentation directs users to support[at]imageboss.me for questions and to GitHub issues for integration bugs or problems.checked 8 Oct 2026
- URL transformations
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- What it does
- ImageBoss resizes, crops, compresses, watermarks, and filters images on demand, then delivers them through a CDN using URL parameters.checked 8 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Nochecked 20 Sep 2026
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