ImageKit

Final image CDN fallback — 20 GB/mo + DAM, no card

ImageKit

Role

Third / final link in the family’s 3-tier image-CDN fallback chain. If both Cloudflare Images and wsrv.nl are unavailable, the oriz-kit <Image> wrapper resolves through an authenticated ImageKit endpoint. Doubles as the family’s DAM (digital-asset manager) for hand-curated originals — see tooling/imagekit.md for the original tooling-side entry.

Free tier

• 20 GB bandwidth / month
• 20 GB media storage
• Unlimited transformations
• Unlimited requests
• DAM (folders, tags, search, version history)

Card / subscription required?

NO. Free Developer plan: email-only sign-up, no card.

Alternatives

• Cloudflare Images — primary
• wsrv.nl — fallback 1
• Cloudinary — separate fallback already documented under tooling

Swap cost

Medium — URL transform syntax differs across providers, but the oriz-kit <Image> wrapper isolates this.

Why this is our pick (for fallback 2)

The strongest free tier with a real DAM and a stable signed URL scheme — useful both as a CDN-of-last-resort and as the canonical home for hand-curated photo / illustration assets.

Note on duplication

A separate entry tooling/imagekit.md covers ImageKit’s role as the family’s image-tooling option. This file is the image-cdn-fallback-2 role specifically. Both reference the same account and same free tier.

Cross-refs

• Image CDN fallback chain decision
• Cloudflare Images — primary
• wsrv.nl — fallback 1
• tooling/imagekit — sibling DAM entry
• No card-on-file rule

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