# ImageKit

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/media/imagekit/

An image and video CDN with a digital asset manager, billed on four separate meters — bandwidth, storage, video units and extension units — each with its own allowance and overage rate.

## Who it suits

Costs you can predict per resource, at the cheapest paid entry here. Bandwidth, storage, video units and extension units are four separate meters with published rates, so a workload heavy on one is not charged against the others — and the bandwidth overage falls from $0.50 to $0.45 a GB as the plan grows.

Consider something else if You are running the free plan in production. Its limits are hard stops in ImageKit's own words: media delivery stops at 20 GB and new uploads stop at 3 GB. The failure is images not loading rather than a larger bill, and overage only becomes possible from Lite at $9 a month.

## iScore

66 / 100 (80% interval 63–70), rank 2 of 4 in media — interval overlaps the next rank, so this is an ordering, not a finding.

inetGeek's own reading, computed from sourced facts against category peers by disclosed rules. Not a provider claim. Intervals are 80%; a provider with few documented facts is pulled toward the category middle rather than scored on what little is known.
Method: https://inetgeek.com/iscore/. Full output with every criterion's basis: https://inetgeek.com/scores.json. Every media peer ranked: https://inetgeek.com/media/imagekit/alternatives/

- Price: 66 (60–73), weight 50%, 5 of 6 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: free_card_required
- Trust and compliance: 50 (44–56), weight 30%, 0 of 2 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: hipaa_eligible, soc2
- Evidence: 91 (91–91), weight 20%, 4 of 4 criteria scored

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Free tier: Yes ([source](https://imagekit.io/plans), read 2026-09-15)
- Kind of free offer: Free tier ([source](https://imagekit.io/plans), read 2026-09-15)
- What the free plan includes: 20 GB bandwidth, 3 GB of DAM storage, 500 video units and 650 extension units a month. Both of the first two are hard stops, not overages. ([source](https://imagekit.io/plans), read 2026-09-15)
- Entry paid plan: $9 a month for Lite, plus pay-as-you-go on every meter above its allowance. ([source](https://imagekit.io/plans), read 2026-09-15)
- Pricing model: Four separate meters rather than one. Bandwidth, DAM storage, video units and extension units each carry their own monthly allowance and their own overage rate, so a workload heavy on one is unaffected by the others. The video unit is itself two rates: one unit is a second of SD or half a second of HD. ([source](https://imagekit.io/plans), read 2026-09-15)
- Egress over allowance: $0.50 per GB above the 40 GB on Lite, and $0.45 per GB above the 225 GB on Pro — the rate falls as the plan rises. ([source](https://imagekit.io/plans), read 2026-09-15)
- When you exceed a cap: On the free plan there is no overage — media delivery stops when the bandwidth limit is hit and uploads stop at the storage limit. From Lite upward, overage is allowed on bandwidth and storage and billed per GB. ([source](https://imagekit.io/plans), read 2026-09-15)

### Limits

- Included bandwidth: 40 GB a month on Lite, rising to 225 GB on Pro. ImageKit puts a figure on what that buys: roughly 2 million images, or 2,000 minutes of HD video. ([source](https://imagekit.io/plans), read 2026-09-15)

### Storage

- Storage price: $0.10 per GB above the 10 GB of DAM storage included with Lite. ([source](https://imagekit.io/plans), read 2026-09-15)

### Support

- Support on entry paid plan: Email support on Lite, the entry paid plan. The free plan gets community support only. ([source](https://imagekit.io/plans), read 2026-09-15)

## Compared with

- [ImageKit vs Cloudinary](https://inetgeek.com/compare/cloudinary-vs-imagekit/)
- [ImageKit vs imgix](https://inetgeek.com/compare/imgix-vs-imagekit/)
- [ImageKit vs Uploadcare](https://inetgeek.com/compare/imagekit-vs-uploadcare/)