imageopt
The facts below are what the maker publishes about imageopt, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From imageopt's own pricing page, checked 9 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| imageopt | Free | GPL-3.0-or-later · CLI and GitHub Action · no paid plans or usage limits stated |
The facts
Each one read from imageopt's own pages, with the date it was checked.
Where it runs
- Action platforms
- The composite action supports Linux, macOS, and Windows, and downloads a release binary with SHA-256 verification.checked 9 Oct 2026
What it does
- API access
- Nochecked 24 Sep 2026
- Batch processing
- Yeschecked 24 Sep 2026
- CLI features
- The CLI supports dry runs, backups, recursive paths, JSON reports, and a check mode that exits with an error if images could be optimized or a file fails.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Compression
- Optimization is lossless by default, with lossy recompression available as an option.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Compression modes
- bothchecked 24 Sep 2026
- Downloads
- Prebuilt binaries are listed for macOS arm64/x64, Linux x64/arm64, and Windows x64.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Formats
- It optimizes JPEG, PNG, WebP, SVG, and static GIF files; animated GIF and animated WebP are skipped.checked 9 Oct 2026
- GitHub Actions
- A composite GitHub Action can optimize files, commit results, or gate a pull request when images could shrink.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Image resizing
- Nochecked 24 Sep 2026
- Installation
- Users can download a platform binary or install from source with Cargo; building requires Rust 1.82, a C compiler, nasm, and cmake.checked 9 Oct 2026
- License and pricing
- The software is licensed GPL-3.0-or-later; the opened project pages state no price.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Metadata controls
- Yeschecked 24 Sep 2026
- Notable limits
- AVIF is detected and skipped, and animated GIF and animated WebP are not optimized.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- imageopt is a cross-platform command-line image optimizer for local use and CI automation.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Safety
- The engine re-decodes candidate outputs, selects the smallest valid result, and writes files atomically.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Security and reliability
- The project says it guards against decompression bombs and leaves failed files untouched.checked 9 Oct 2026
- Supported formats
- JPEG,PNG,WebP,SVG,static GIFchecked 24 Sep 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 24 Sep 2026
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