Image delivery, pricing, and the honest CDN.
Guides on image optimization, transparent bandwidth pricing, and how Keenpix compares to the incumbents, from the team building the open-source engine.
Keenpix vs the alternatives
Honest, side-by-side comparisons with the image CDNs you're probably evaluating.
Vercel Image Optimization to Keenpix Migration
Move next/image from Vercel's optimizer to a Keenpix custom loader with config mapping, canary rollout, cache and origin checks, and rollback.
ImageKit to Keenpix Migration Guide
Move ImageKit transforms and origins to Keenpix with a compatibility table, asset-export gate, canary plan, cache checks, and rollback.
Cloudinary to Keenpix Migration Guide
Migrate Cloudinary image URLs to Keenpix with an explicit parameter map, origin plan, canary rollout, cache checks, and tested rollback.
Cloudinary Credits Explained: Pricing vs Keenpix
Learn how Cloudinary credits combine transformations, storage, and bandwidth, then compare that meter with Keenpix managed-delivery pricing.
imgix Credits Explained: Delivery and Storage Pricing
Learn how imgix credit packages combine managed media and delivery allowances, then compare the meter with Keenpix managed-delivery pricing.
ImageKit Bandwidth Pricing Explained: Limits and Overage
Learn how ImageKit bandwidth allowances and overage work, then compare their boundary with Keenpix managed-delivery pricing.
Latest articles
Design a user-upload image pipeline end to end
Design image uploads from authenticated ingestion and byte validation through quarantine, moderation, durable storage, transformation, delivery, and recovery.
Cache invalidation with versioned image URLs
Use immutable versioned image URLs across browser, CDN, and origin caches, with safe publication, rollback, purge, revocation, and verification patterns.
Safe image CDN rollouts and rollbacks
Canary image delivery changes with explicit acceptance gates, cache-aware rollback, observability, and a tested path back to the previous URL generator.
How to measure image CDN performance reproducibly
Build a repeatable image delivery test that separates cold transforms, warm caches, transfer, decoding, rendering, and field experience.
Private image origin security boundaries
Choose between public assets, signed source grants, authenticated gateways, and private networks without leaking origin credentials into delivery URLs.
Image delivery troubleshooting: diagnose by symptom
Trace broken, slow, stale, oversized, or incorrectly cropped images from browser selection through caches, transforms, and origin access.
Bring-your-own-origin image CDN architecture
Design an image delivery layer around source assets you already own, with explicit origin, cache, URL, security, and recovery boundaries.
Agent-assisted image CDN integration without blind trust
Give a coding agent public, bounded contracts for image delivery, then verify generated URLs, security boundaries, responsive behavior, and rollback.
Secure image pipelines: SSRF to image bombs
Defend image fetch and transform services with origin allowlists, redirect revalidation, byte and pixel ceilings, timeouts, and observable failures.
Stop cache stampedes in image transformation
Coalesce cold image transforms, serve stale safely, shed overload, and size CPU and memory capacity from measured service time and working sets.
Image CDN cache keys: tame Vary: Accept
Design image cache keys that keep AVIF, WebP, and JPEG correct without multiplying variants for every raw Accept header or query permutation.
Signed image URLs with HMAC: stop unauthorized transforms
Learn when an origin allowlist is enough, when HMAC signing helps, how Keenpix canonicalizes a transform request, and what secret rotation breaks.
Self-host an image CDN with Docker: production checklist
Deploy Keenpix with a pinned Docker image, persistent Postgres, health checks, CDN cache rules, backups, and a repeatable smoke test.
How to optimize Next.js images with a custom CDN loader
Connect next/image to Keenpix with a custom loader, responsive sizes, format negotiation, and an origin allowlist you can verify in the browser.
AVIF vs WebP in production: choose with your cache
Compare AVIF and WebP without borrowed benchmarks, then configure format negotiation and CDN cache variants without serving the wrong bytes.
How JoodCMS integrates Keenpix image delivery
A code-backed case study of JoodCMS using Keenpix for responsive variants, source allowlists, domain sync, prewarming, and safe fallbacks.
What is an image CDN? How optimization and delivery work
An image CDN fetches, transforms, caches, and delivers image variants close to users. Learn the request lifecycle, tradeoffs, and when you need one.
Responsive image CDN guide: srcset, sizes, DPR, and formats
Build responsive image CDN URLs with srcset and sizes, choose width candidates, handle DPR and format negotiation, and avoid common cache mistakes.
Image CDN vs traditional CDN: caching and transforms
A traditional CDN caches existing files. An image CDN creates optimized variants and then caches them. Compare responsibilities, costs, and use cases.
Best Image CDNs in 2026: 10 Services Compared
Compare 10 image CDN and optimization services using verified August 2026 pricing, use cases, tradeoffs, and clear best-fit recommendations for developers.
Image CDN Pricing: Why Keenpix Bills by Managed Delivery
See why Keenpix bills for optimized managed delivery instead of transformations, with published plans, included transforms, and always-on metered overage.
Self-hosted vs managed image optimization: how to choose
Compare who owns the database, cache, delivery bill, upgrades, monitoring, and failure recovery in self-hosted and managed image optimization.