SaaS images services

Comparison of SaaS images services

Images as a service is a convenient to handle images upload in a web site.

Why an image as service (IaaS)

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

  ...

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

Comparison of the services

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$.

Free alternatives

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.io

• 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/jimp