| Vendor | ImageKit Private Limited (India), with US subsidiary ImageKit Inc | Keepeek SAS (Papirfly group) |
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| HQ | India (New Delhi); US entity in Newark, Delaware | France (Paris) |
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| Founded | 2016 | 2008 |
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| Ownership | independent, privately held (no external funding round disclosed) | subsidiary of Papirfly Group (majority-owned by Verdane) |
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| Target market | SMB to mid-market (self-serve plans); Enterprise plans for SSO, governance and custom limits | Enterprise |
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| Deployment | SaaS | SaaS, On-premise |
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| Hosting regions | US, Canada, EU, in, sg, Australia | EU |
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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-only (by solutions chosen + company size), 12-month contracts, optional modules |
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| Public pricing | Yes | No |
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| SSO | SAML | SAML, OIDC |
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| Certifications | ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2 | None published |
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| Analyst coverage | Not public | Forrester Wave DAM Systems Q1 2026: parent Papirfly rated Contender (Keepeek not named) |
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| Webhooks (overview) | Yes | Custom |
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| Official MCP server | Yes3 hosted remote servers - DAM, Admin (OAuth) and DevTools (public) | Nonot yet publicly documented |
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| API base URL | https://api.imagekit.io/v1/… (management); https://upload.imagekit.io/api/v1|v2/files/upload | https://{tenant}.keepeek.com/api |
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| Authentication | Basic auth, API key, JWT, OAuth 2.0 PKCE | Basic auth, JWT |
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| Token lifetime | API keys: no expiry (rotate with 0 h to 7 d grace); client upload signature/JWT ≤ 1 h | JWT lifetime set by client (exp; sample 60 s); no refresh; max Not public |
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| Rate limit | Burst + sustained per endpoint, HTTP 429; ~40 reads/s, 5-20 writes/s advised; Upload API unlimited | Not public |
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| Pagination | offset (skip/limit, max 1,000) on file listing; cursor on tag listing | page-based (page/size, default 20; max Not public) |
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| Webhooks (API) | Dashboard or API, 15 event types, Standard Webhooks HMAC-SHA256, max 3 endpoints | Not in the documented API; possible via custom scripts |
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| API spec | OpenAPI 3.1.0 (1 file, 60 operations), Apache-2.0 | Swagger 2.0 (per instance, /api/doc/swagger.json) |
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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 server-side; Keepicker web component (official) |
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