Cloudflare Images
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VisitCloudflare Images vs imgproxy
What both publish
| Fact | Cloudflare Images | imgproxy |
|---|---|---|
| Automatic optimization | Yes | Yes |
| AVIF support | Yes | Yes |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States | LinkedIn lists headquarters at Wilmington, Delaware, United States. |
| Purpose | Cloudflare Images provides scalable pipelines to store, optimize, and deliver images without managing image infrastructure. | imgproxy is a standalone HTTP server that resizes, processes, optimizes, and converts images on demand from a source image URL and processing options. |
| Responsive images | Yes | Yes |
| Security controls | Cloudflare recommends WAF, Bot Management, and Rate Limiting to protect image optimization requests from abuse. | Security features include signed URLs, authorization headers, source restrictions, file-size and resolution limits, animation-frame limits, URL expiration and SVG sanitization. |
Cloudflare Images plans
- Images FreeFree
- Images Paid$0.50 a month
imgproxy plans
- imgproxy Pro Monthly—
- imgproxy Pro Annual—
- imgproxy OSSFree
- imgproxy Pro$49 a month
- imgproxy Pro 16 workers$49 a month
- imgproxy Pro 16 workers$499 a year
Pick Cloudflare Images if…
You want what its maker publishes above — check its page for the details.
Pick imgproxy if…
imgproxy suits teams that need to process and optimize images from varied storage sources in a self-hosted setup. Its deployment options and extensive transformation controls may fit web services with responsive-image needs.