Features
Pixelflare does literally everything you'd ever need from an image CDN, and then some!
Our goal, was to build fastest possible image hosting solution at the best price.
Top 10 Principles
- Free forever: Zero cost to start, with generous quotas and cheap scaling
- High performance: Edge-delivered from 300+ locations for instant load times
- AI-powered: Smart search, auto alt-text, face detection, and background removal
- Privacy at its core: No tracking, no ads, full control over your data
- Security first: Optional encryption, signed URLs, and granular access controls
- Built for sharing: Public galleries, 10+ embed formats, and showcase profiles
- Smart optimization: On-the-fly transformations, format conversion, and resizing
- Full control: Custom domains, S3-sync, easy exports. No vendor lock-in
- Developer friendly: REST API, webhooks, S3-compatible SDK, and comprehensive docs
- Open source: 100% MIT licensed and self-hostable 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, folders or ZIP archives 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
Smart Content Negotiation
Automatically serve the optimal image format, size, and quality per user
Custom Variants
Configure the size, format, quality, and visual appearance of images as URL params
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 up to 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
Easy Export
Bulk download all of your images as a ZIP archives, for easy migration or backup
Integrate with Anything
Use our public REST API to securely manage your images and data via any other platform
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
Understand your audience
See which countries, browsers, websites are embeding your images
Optimization Metrics
Get an insight into areas for optimization, based upon your read data
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
Offline Support
Caching, resumable uploads and basic offline access for the PWA
Fast UI
Lightweight client applications, built for speed and performance
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.