Comparison of SaaS images services
Images as a service is a convenient to handle images upload in a web site.
Here are some features, those types of services are doing.
Image uploader (Optional)
Backup
Image resize thanks to an url with special transformations parameters
REST API to manage the stored images
CDN to serve image faster
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It allow you to spare the time :
to develop similar functionnality.
to manage only you software code and not the site assets which generally are the heaviest ressources and require specific handling
Here is a comparison table of the different services. It is not easy as the different services use different metrics to price their offers.
Feel free to suggest me other I have not listed here. I included only the first plan below 100$.
Here are also some free alternatives :
A service that allow you to use the image where they are only for transformation. So you do not need an api or a user account https://rsz.ioarrow-up-right
Also, image manipulation and resizing is not that hard so you can also use some nice libraries
like JIMP in node.js https://github.com/oliver-moran/jimparrow-up-right
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