| Vendor | ImageKit Private Limited (India), with US subsidiary ImageKit Inc | IntelligenceBank Pty Ltd |
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| HQ | India (New Delhi); US entity in Newark, Delaware | Australia (Melbourne, VIC) |
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| Founded | 2016 | 2009 |
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| Ownership | independent, privately held (no external funding round disclosed) | PE-backed (Five Elms Capital growth investment, 2021; stake size Not public) |
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| Target market | SMB to mid-market (self-serve plans); Enterprise plans for SSO, governance and custom limits | Mid-market to enterprise (regulated industries) |
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| Deployment | SaaS | SaaS, Private cloud |
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| Hosting regions | US, Canada, EU, in, sg, Australia | US, Canada, UK, Australia |
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| Pricing model | Media Processing + DAM: Free, Lite $9/mo, Pro $89/mo plus usage overage; Enterprise quote-only; separate DAM-only plans | quote-based packages (users, storage, modules); DAM from USD 567/month billed annually |
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| Public pricing | Yes | No |
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| Certifications | ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2 | None published |
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| Analyst coverage | Not public | G2 Leader, Digital Asset Management (vendor claim) |
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| OpenAPI spec | Yes | No |
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| Webhooks (overview) | Yes | No |
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| Official MCP server | Yes3 hosted remote servers - DAM, Admin (OAuth) and DevTools (public) | Noonly a documentation-lookup MCP server on GitHub |
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| API base URL | https://api.imagekit.io/v1/… (management); https://upload.imagekit.io/api/v1|v2/files/upload | {apiV3url}/api/3.0.1/{clientid}/… (apiV3url returned at login) |
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| Authentication | Basic auth, API key, JWT, OAuth 2.0 PKCE | Session login, OAuth 2.0 client credentials |
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| Token lifetime | API keys: no expiry (rotate with 0 h to 7 d grace); client upload signature/JWT ≤ 1 h | sid: user session length; OAuth access token 15 min (Beta) |
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| Rate limit | Burst + sustained per endpoint, HTTP 429; ~40 reads/s, 5-20 writes/s advised; Upload API unlimited | 600 calls/min per user (1,800 in collection overview); call allowance per site |
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| Pagination | offset (skip/limit, max 1,000) on file listing; cursor on tag listing | offset in path: .limit(offset,n), n max 100, default 10; count returned |
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| Webhooks (API) | Dashboard or API, 15 event types, Standard Webhooks HMAC-SHA256, max 3 endpoints | None documented; Zapier app triggers (21) as workaround |
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| API spec | OpenAPI 3.1.0 (1 file, 60 operations), Apache-2.0 | Postman collection v2.0.0 (146 requests) + legacy v2 collection; no OpenAPI |
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| Official SDKs | Node.js/TS, Python, Go, Java, Ruby, .NET, PHP, JS, React, Vue, Angular, Next.js, Astro, iOS, Android | None official; npm UI component libs for integrations; doc-only MCP server repo |
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