Features

Pixelflare does literally everything you'd ever need from an image CDN, and then some!

Top 10 Principles

• Permanent: Will never compress, degrade or delete your images unless you choose to.
• High performance: Images served from from the edge for blazing fast load times.
• Privacy at it's core: No tracking, no ads, and full control over your data.
• Security first: Optional at-rest encryption, EXIF-stripping, and per-image access controls.
• Efficient: On-the-fly image transformations to increase speed and reduce costs.
• Beautiful UI: Intuitive upload process, built-in editor, and powerful organization tools.
• Full control: Retain ownership of your images with custom domains and easy exports.
• Superb reliability: Built on a global network, with automatic backups and failover.
• Developer friendly: Full REST API, S3-compatible SDK, and webhooks for any integration.
• Open and extensible: 100% open source codebase, with automated deployment scripts.

Full Feature List

Core Features

Built-in editor

Edit images during upload (filters, crop, text, and more)

Image Resizing

Request images in specific sized, to save on bandwidth and speed up your app

Multi-format

Supports almost ever image format, plus live conversions

Seamless Upload

Simply paste, images, files, URLs or folders to begin resumable imports

Performance & Delivery

Lightening fast

Served at the edge, with images cached in 300+ locations, for speedy delivery

Smart caching

Intelligent geo-based global caching for speed and reliability

Custom domains

Link your domains, for custom image links

Embed anywhere

Get instant embed codes for any platform or format

Short URLs

Generate short embed URLs for any image

Public API

Integrate into your existing apps and workflows with free REST API

Organization & Management

Powerful organization

Keep your library tidy, with albums, tags and favourites

Image meta

Add additional attributes to your images, for improved organisation

Image classification

AI-powered deep search that recognizes objects, scenes, and more.

Auto-alt text

Automatically generated perfect image descriptions for accessibility

Bulk upload

Easily upload or import many images at once, with resumable uploads

Recycle bin

Easily restore any accidentally deleted images for upto 30 days

Public Profiles

Curate your own landing page, to showcase selected albums and images

Gallery Views

Share public albums with a beautiful photo viewer

No Vendor Lock-in

Scheduled backups

Off-site backups to sync your images to your own S3-compatible storage

Custom domain

Bring your own domain name, for professional embed links and easy migration

Open standards

Folows industry standards, with full compatibility for major protocols

Predictable URLs

Embed URLs can reflect the S3 location, for easy to/from migration

Analytics & Monitoring

Real-time stats

Get detailed analytics for each image's views, bandwidth and countries

Usage controls

Set limits, and monitor bandwidth, storage and compute usage

Status monitor

Built-in status checks, uptime and performance stats

Audit log

Keep track of all changes ever made, for compliance purposes

Privacy

Encrypted pictures

Enable encryption, to keep personal images secure and private

Short-lived images

Optionally enable image expiration, to auto-delete images

Strip metadata

View and remove any associated EXIF and metadata

Visibility controls

Specify image visibility, private, public or unlisted

Data removal tools

Fully eradicate any or all images and invalidate the cache

Privacy-respecting

No invasive tracking or unnecessary data collection

Security

Bot protection

Configure safeguards to prevent abuse from automated bots

Auto SSL

Issues TLS signed certificates upon deploy

Custom limits

Configurable per-asset rate-limiting

SSO login

Authenticate with an OAuth provider of your choice

Developer Experience

Documented

Full docs, interactive spec, and schemas

Tested

Automated unit, e2e, contract and integration tests for peace of mind

Fully automated

Easy Terraform deployments via GitHub Actions

Neat code

Artisan code, hand-crafted by a real human, no AI slop here!

User Experience

Dark mode

Configure your UI a choice of 12 built-in themes, or build your own

Multi-language

Fully internationalized, with 12+ built-in locales

Accessible

Accessible web UI, with custom options for specific needs

Mobile-first

Fully responsive, performant web UI optimized for mobile

Platform

Open source

All code is 100% free and open source under the MIT license

Free / cheap

Zero cost required to get started, and very cheap to scale

Easy migration

Quick deployment, no vendor lock-in, easily switch to/from other services

Self-hostable

Deploy your own instance, to take complete control over your images and data

See It in Action

Ready to try it yourself? Get started with deployment or explore the comparison with other services.