| Vendor | ImageKit Private Limited (India), with US subsidiary ImageKit Inc | Esko (MediaBeacon product line) |
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| HQ | India (New Delhi); US entity in Newark, Delaware | Belgium (Esko HQ, Ghent); MediaBeacon originated in Minneapolis, MN (USA) |
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| Founded | 2016 | 1989 |
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| Ownership | independent, privately held (no external funding round disclosed) | subsidiary of Esko, part of Veralto (NYSE VLTO) since 2023-09-30 |
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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 | Not public |
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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 (vendor cloud subscription or on-premise licence) |
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| Public pricing | Yes | No |
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| SSO | SAML | SAML, LDAP |
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| Certifications | ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2 | None published |
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| Analyst coverage | Not public | Forrester Wave DAM for CX Q2 2018: Strong Performer |
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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) | No |
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| API base URL | https://api.imagekit.io/v1/… (management); https://upload.imagekit.io/api/v1|v2/files/upload | https://{tenant}/wf/restapi/v2/{endpoint} |
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| Authentication | Basic auth, API key, JWT, OAuth 2.0 PKCE | API key, Basic auth, Session login |
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| Token lifetime | API keys: no expiry (rotate with 0 h to 7 d grace); client upload signature/JWT ≤ 1 h | API keys permanent by default; expiring keys can be created from workflows |
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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 index (pageIndex + pageSize, default 100) on search endpoints |
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| Webhooks (API) | Dashboard or API, 15 event types, Standard Webhooks HMAC-SHA256, max 3 endpoints | none; server-side workflow triggers on asset events instead |
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| API spec | OpenAPI 3.1.0 (1 file, 60 operations), Apache-2.0 | none public (JSDoc / Javadoc HTML reference only) |
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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; server-side Workflow JS API and browser Client JS API |
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