| Vendor | ImageKit Private Limited (India), with US subsidiary ImageKit Inc | Montala Limited |
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| HQ | India (New Delhi); US entity in Newark, Delaware | UK (Watchfield, Oxfordshire) |
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| Founded | 2016 | 2006 |
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| Ownership | independent, privately held (no external funding round disclosed) | independent (100% employee-owned via an Employee Ownership Trust since 2020-10) |
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| Target market | SMB to mid-market (self-serve plans); Enterprise plans for SSO, governance and custom limits | Mid-market |
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| Deployment | SaaS | SaaS, On-premise |
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| Hosting regions | US, Canada, EU, in, sg, Australia | UK |
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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 | free open-source software (BSD-style licence); paid annual hosting + support packages (4 public tiers) |
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| SSO | SAML | SAML, LDAP |
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| Certifications | ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2 | ISO 27001 |
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| OpenAPI spec | Yes | No |
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| Webhooks (overview) | Yes | PartialAPI Webhooks plugin: user-triggered outbound POST buttons, no event subscriptions |
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| Official MCP server | Yes3 hosted remote servers - DAM, Admin (OAuth) and DevTools (public) | NoMCP API interface on the official 11.1 roadmap, planned 2027-02-23, status Scoping; unreleased prototype in a public SVN branch |
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| API base URL | https://api.imagekit.io/v1/… (management); https://upload.imagekit.io/api/v1|v2/files/upload | https://{host}/api/ |
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| Authentication | Basic auth, API key, JWT, OAuth 2.0 PKCE | API key, 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 | User key: no expiry documented; session key tied to login session |
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| Rate limit | Burst + sustained per endpoint, HTTP 429; ~40 reads/s, 5-20 writes/s advised; Upload API unlimited | None documented (API throttling on the 11.2 roadmap, not yet scheduled) |
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| Pagination | offset (skip/limit, max 1,000) on file listing; cursor on tag listing | offset (do_search fetchrows "offset,limit" returns total + data; offset param) |
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| Webhooks (API) | Dashboard or API, 15 event types, Standard Webhooks HMAC-SHA256, max 3 endpoints | none (API Webhooks plugin = user-triggered outbound POST buttons) |
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| API spec | OpenAPI 3.1.0 (1 file, 60 operations), Apache-2.0 | none published (KB-described per-instance OpenAPI generator absent from 11.0 code) |
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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 (built-in API test tool generates PHP and cURL code) |
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