# imgix

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

A real-time image and video CDN billed in credits sold at a per-credit price, with media and delivery ceilings attached to each bundle.

## Who it suits

A media library that is large relative to the traffic it serves. Starter is $25 a month for 100 credits with up to 50 GB of media and 100 GB of delivery, and the per-credit price falls as bundles grow — $0.25 on Starter, $0.20 on Basic, $0.18 on Midrange.

Consider something else if You want to start free, or to know what a credit actually is. There is no free plan, only 30 days and 100 credits, and the page prices credits without ever defining one — it states the media and delivery ceilings attached to each bundle and leaves the unit itself undescribed.

## iScore

64 / 100 (80% interval 60–68), rank 4 of 4 in media.

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/imgix/alternatives/

- Price: 64 (58–70), weight 50%, 4 of 6 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: egress_overage_price, storage_price
- 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: 85 (85–85), weight 20%, 4 of 4 criteria scored

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Free tier: No ([source](https://imgix.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15)
- Kind of free offer: Free trial ([source](https://imgix.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15)
- Credit card to start: No ([source](https://imgix.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15)
- When the free offer ends: 30 days with 100 credits to spend in them. It is the only free access — the plan table starts at Starter. ([source](https://imgix.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15)
- Entry paid plan: $25 a month for Starter, or $250 a year. That is 100 credits a month at $0.25 each. ([source](https://imgix.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15)
- Pricing model: Credits sold as currency, not as a resource equivalence. Starter prices them at $0.25 each falling to $0.21 annually, and each bundle also states a media and a delivery ceiling — 100 credits comes with up to 50 GB of media and up to 100 GB of delivery bandwidth. imgix moved to this from a model tied to origin images. ([source](https://imgix.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15)

### Limits

- Storage (entry plan): Up to 50 GB of media on Starter — the volume on your site rather than an entire library, by imgix's own definition. ([source](https://imgix.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15)
- Included bandwidth: Up to 100 GB of delivery bandwidth on Starter, rising to 375 GB on Basic. ([source](https://imgix.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15)

## Compared with

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