| Vendor | ImageKit Private Limited (India), with US subsidiary ImageKit Inc | Tenovos Corporation |
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| HQ | India (New Delhi); US entity in Newark, Delaware | USA (New York, NY) |
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| Founded | 2016 | 2018 |
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| Ownership | independent, privately held (no external funding round disclosed) | independent, VC-backed (S4S Ventures, BDMI, Progress Ventures, Revel Partners, Dublin Capital Partners, UCIG) |
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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 (demo request); Tenovos Glass also listed on AWS Marketplace |
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| Public pricing | Yes | No |
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| SSO | SAML | Not public |
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| Certifications | ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2 | SOC2 |
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| Analyst coverage | Not public | IDC MarketScape Worldwide Intelligent DAM 2024: Leader · Forrester Wave DAM for Customer Experience Q1 2022: Strong Performer |
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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://api.tenovos.io/v1 (v1.5, all customers); UAT: https://api.uat.tenovos.io/v1 |
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| Authentication | Basic auth, API key, JWT, OAuth 2.0 PKCE | API key, JWT, OAuth 2.0 authorization code |
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| Token lifetime | API keys: no expiry (rotate with 0 h to 7 d grace); client upload signature/JWT ≤ 1 h | Access token 1 h; refresh token usable up to 30 days |
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| Rate limit | Burst + sustained per endpoint, HTTP 429; ~40 reads/s, 5-20 writes/s advised; Upload API unlimited | Not documented; x-ratelimit-limit 60000 / reset 60 seen on a 401 (observed) |
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| Pagination | offset (skip/limit, max 1,000) on file listing; cursor on tag listing | offset from/limit (max 100, search window 10,000); cursor scan for deep paging |
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| Webhooks (API) | Dashboard or API, 15 event types, Standard Webhooks HMAC-SHA256, max 3 endpoints | API- or admin-UI-managed; HMAC-SHA256 signed; 8 attempts with back-off |
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| API spec | OpenAPI 3.1.0 (1 file, 60 operations), Apache-2.0 | OpenAPI 3.0 (v1.5, 127 ops) + Content Intelligence API + webhooks OpenAPI 3.1 |
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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 (Node.js training samples only) |
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