Image and video optimization, real-time transformations and CDN delivery with 20 GB of bandwidth, 500 video processing units and 650 AI extension units a month, plus 3 GB of storage in its media library (DAM) and 2 users. Image transformations are not metered; every allowance is a hard cap.
Verified ·Oct 15, 2026
Free allowance
What the free plan includes, as the provider states it.
- bandwidth / month
- 20 GB
- Optimized output delivered by ImageKit, including responses served from its cache. Resets on the 1st of each calendar month; delivery stops once it is used up.
- storage
- 3 GB
- Files uploaded to the Media Library (DAM); a fixed cap that does not reset monthly. Files served from your own connected storage or server do not count, and the docs say cached transformations are not charged.
- video processing units / month
- 500
- Used only the first time a video output is generated: 1 unit per second of SD output, 2 per second of HD (4K and AV1 cost more), and 30 per thumbnail. 500 units is about 500 s of SD or 250 s of HD; repeat views count only toward bandwidth.
- extension units (AI add-ons) / month
- 650
- Spent on AI add-ons and Creative Automation, e.g. 10 units per ImageKit background removal or 130 per remove.bg removal; smart crop is free. Resets monthly.
- seats
- 2
- Everyone with a dashboard login, including the main administrator.
- cache purge requests / month
- 500
- transformations / month
- Unlimited
- Image transformations (resizing, cropping, format optimization) are not metered, though the delivered output counts toward bandwidth. Video output uses video processing units and AI transformations use extension units.
- max image file size
- 25 MB
- max video file size
- 100 MB
- custom domains
- 0
- Custom delivery domains such as images.example.com start on the Pro plan.
The fine print
Each verdict links to the quote it rests on.
- Free for
- As long as you stay within the limits
- At the limit
- Anything over the limit is refused until the next period
- Spending cap
- None needed: the free plan cannot bill you
- Idle projects
- No pause rule documentedImageKit publishes no inactivity rule for free accounts. Its terms only say that after an account is terminated, stored content stays downloadable for 30 days and may then be deleted.
- Data retention
- No deletion rule documented
- Card at sign-up
- Not requiredThe sign-up form labels its email field "Business Email"; no page says personal addresses are refused.
- Identity check
- An email address
- Commercial use
- AllowedImageKit pitches the free plan at low-traffic websites and apps, small teams, side projects and testing. The same terms cover free and paid users and bar opening multiple accounts to get around plan limits.
- Mainland China
- Not verified
- Sign-up regions
- No restrictions documented
- Quotas apply per
- Account
Alternatives
Other free plans for the same need, ranked by the same neutral rules.
Changes
- New
Changed: ImageKit Forever Free added to the catalog
- Oct 15, 2026
- Awaiting review
- Forever Free