| Vendor | ImageKit Private Limited (India), with US subsidiary ImageKit Inc | Orange Logic |
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| HQ | India (New Delhi); US entity in Newark, Delaware | USA (Irvine, CA) |
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| Founded | 2016 | 1998 |
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| Ownership | independent, privately held (no external funding round disclosed) | PE-backed (Bregal Sagemount strategic growth investment, 2023; stake not disclosed) |
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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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| 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; packaged by team and module ("For Teams", 2026) |
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| Public pricing | Yes | No |
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| Certifications | ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2 | ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2, CSA STAR, TX-RAMP, PCI DSS |
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| Analyst coverage | Not public | Gartner MQ DAM Platforms 2025: Leader · Forrester Wave DAM Systems Q1 2026: Leader · Frost Radar DAM 2025: Leader |
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| OpenAPI spec | Yes | Partial |
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| Official MCP server | Yes3 hosted remote servers - DAM, Admin (OAuth) and DevTools (public) | Yeshosted MCP server at /mcp per instance, asset search only |
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| API base URL | https://api.imagekit.io/v1/… (management); https://upload.imagekit.io/api/v1|v2/files/upload | https://{tenant}/ (/webapi, /api, /API/DataTable) |
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| Authentication | Basic auth, API key, JWT, OAuth 2.0 PKCE | OAuth 2.0 client credentials, OAuth 2.0 authorization code, OAuth 2.0 PKCE, Personal token |
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| Token lifetime | API keys: no expiry (rotate with 0 h to 7 d grace); client upload signature/JWT ≤ 1 h | Client credentials 2 h (example); auth-code access 24 h, refresh 30 d |
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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 (pagenumber/countperpage, default 100; max Not public) |
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| Webhooks (API) | Dashboard or API, 15 event types, Standard Webhooks HMAC-SHA256, max 3 endpoints | API-managed, HMAC-signed (opt-in), up to 5 retries |
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| API spec | OpenAPI 3.1.0 (1 file, 60 operations), Apache-2.0 | OpenAPI 3.1 (44 per-endpoint files); full Swagger behind login |
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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; Content Browser SDK (JS/React, official) |
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