pngquant
The facts below are what the maker publishes about pngquant, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From pngquant's own pricing page, checked 11 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Just me | $950 a year | Organization size: just me · Annual |
| 2–10 | $950 a year | Organization size: 2–10 · Annual |
| 11–50 | $1,250 a year | Organization size: 11–50 · Annual |
| 51–200 | $2,450 a year | Organization size: 51–200 · Annual |
| 201–500 | $3,950 a year | Organization size: 201–500 · Annual |
| 501–1,000 | $9,950 a year | Organization size: 501–1,000 · Annual |
| 1,001–2,000 | $15,500 a year | Organization size: 1,001–2,000 · Annual |
| 2,001–5,000 | $25,500 a year | Organization size: 2,001–5,000 · Annual |
| 5,000+ | $49,500 a year | Organization size: 5,000+ · Annual |
The facts
Each one read from pngquant's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Batch processing
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Commercial license
- The commercial license permits use in commercial products, internal tools, and customer-facing services, and annual licenses auto-renew unless cancelled.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Compatibility
- Generated images are described as compatible with all web browsers and operating systems.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Compression
- The site says conversion can reduce file sizes by as much as 70% while preserving full alpha transparency.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Compression modes
- lossychecked 20 Sep 2026
- Image quality
- It uses palette generation and adaptive dithering, and offers a fast mode for real-time processing or large batches.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- The command-line tool can be integrated with shell scripts, GUIs, and server-side software.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- The maker describes production use in image pipelines, build tools, and CMS plugins.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Licensing
- The project offers GPL or commercial licensing, and its licensing page says organizations generally need a commercial license.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Limits
- The CLI quality setting ranges from 0 to 100, and speed ranges from 1 to 10; speed 10 is described as eight times faster than default with 5% lower quality.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Metadata controls
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
- Purpose
- pngquant is a command-line utility and library for lossy compression of PNG images.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Security
- The licensing page says purchase proceeds support security report responses, bug fixes, new features, and long-term maintenance.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Support
- The project asks users to submit bug reports or feature requests on GitHub.checked 11 Oct 2026
- Supported formats
- PNGchecked 20 Sep 2026
- Supported interfaces
- The native library provides APIs for C, Objective-C, C++, C#, and other languages that can call native code, with dedicated Java and Rust libraries.checked 11 Oct 2026
Money
- Free plan
- Yeschecked 20 Sep 2026
Where it runs
- Platforms
- The site lists command-line binaries for macOS, Windows, and Linux; the library page also describes iOS and macOS Xcode projects.checked 11 Oct 2026
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