Imgix

What it is for

Imgix is a hosted Asset Manager desk: you browse a source’s files, and Starter is $25/month (100 credits). Use it when the job is an asset grid you start at a public $, not when you need a $20 chat seat.

What makes it unique: the cover is Imgix’s official Asset Manager (fourbottle source, heroes/barista-espresso.jpg selected, URL https://fourbottle.imgix.net/heroes/barista-espresso.jpg, 2.6 MB, 2987 × 4481, AI tags Alcoholic Beverage / Cooking) from the docs still — not a pricing card. The tiles themselves are ops of Asset Manager.

Key features

• Asset Manager — a searchable grid of origin files (cover still; docs). One desk. Cover fourbottle / heroes/barista-espresso.jpg sit here. Image Editor / Info Panel sit here, not a sixth desk.
• Rendering API — a URL you rewrite to resize, format, or crop (docs; pricing). A transform, not a grid tile.
• Sources — the origin (S3, GCS, Web Folder, Imgix Storage) Asset Manager reads (docs). A source, not a file. Cover fourbottle picker sits here.
• Video — MP4 / HLS you index next to stills (docs; cover sibling stills show running.mp4). A video asset, not a JPEG tile.
• Management API — the same Asset Manager data over HTTP (docs). An API, not the grid.

Add Images / Settings on the cover are CTAs (not desks). Starter / Basic / Midrange tiles are the meter. Credits ($0.25 / extra on Starter) are the extra meter, not a desk we fold into Asset Manager.

Who it's for

Best fit: media teams who will spend the 30-day / 100-credit trial (no card) on a first Asset Manager, then Starter at $25/month (100 credits) — not Basic $75 unless they need 375 credits.

Pricing

Verified 2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) from imgix.com/pricing. Figures below are the printed USD tiles. Annual billing prints 2 months free (~17%) — Starter $250/year, Basic $750/year, Midrange $1,500/year, Growth $3,000/year, Growth Plus $5,000/year.

• Trial — 30 days and 100 credits. No card (pricing). Not an ongoing Free tile.
• Starter — $25/month. 100 credits/mo. Extra $0.25 / credit ($0.21 annual). Up to 50 GB media. Up to 100 GB delivery.
• Basic — $75/month. 375 credits/mo. Extra $0.20 / credit ($0.17 annual). Up to 187.5 GB media. Up to 375 GB delivery.
• Midrange — $150/month. 830 credits/mo. Extra $0.18 / credit ($0.15 annual).
• Growth — $300/month. 1,875 credits/mo. Extra $0.16 / credit.
• Growth Plus — $500/month. 3,570 credits/mo. Extra $0.12 / credit monthly ($0.14 printed on the annual column we fetched — confirm checkout).
• Enterprise — custom credits / support. Confirm the live quote.

Confirm checkout; taxes follow your location. Default index cap in docs: up to 50,000 assets / month unless you raise it.

Limitations / costs

• No ongoing Free tile. The 100 credits are a 30-day trial, not Starter at $0.
• Credits are the meter. A busy render month is extra $ / credit, not a flat $25 forever.
• An Asset Manager desk, not Cloudinary’s Analysis pane. For that Analysis desk see Cloudinary.

Alternatives

• Cloudinary — an Analysis pane when you want Cloudinary’s Free $0 / Plus $89 yearly, not Imgix’s $25 Starter.
• ImageKit — a media library when you want ImageKit’s public $, not fourbottle’s Asset Manager.
• Bunny CDN — a CDN when you want Bunny’s public $, not Imgix credits.

Official tutorial

Official Imgix channel video: imgix Tutorial – Unlock Creative Freedom with AI Composability (oEmbed author: Imgix). First-party AI-composability walkthrough; the Asset Manager still is the cover. AI composability on the video is a Rendering API desk, not generate-on-Asset-Manager.

Written path: imgix.com/pricing plus the Asset Manager still.

Website

https://www.imgix.com

Repository

https://github.com/imgix

Source

Catalog row curated for AI Tools Nav. Cover is Imgix’s official Asset Manager still (fourbottle + barista-espresso.jpg + AI tags). Dollars checked on imgix.com/pricing (Starter $25; Basic $75; Midrange $150; Growth $300; Growth Plus $500). Tutorial oEmbed author: Imgix.

Last verified

2026-10-23 (Asia/Shanghai) editorial check.