🆚 ImageKit vs. Smush
- 📈 Smush is much more popular than ImageKit.
- 🌎 Smush is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Spain.
- 🌍 ImageKit is more popular in Indonesia and Cambodia.
ImageKit
SmushType
About
ImageKit is a media CDN, image and video API, and AI-powered digital asset management platform that optimizes, transforms, and delivers visual content in real time.
It provides URL-based transformations including smart crops, background removal, generative fill, and upscaling, supports adaptive video streaming and automatic subtitles, and includes a digital asset manager that offers natural language search and an AI agent for asset workflows.
Smush is a 
WordPress image optimization plugin that provides global CDN delivery, WebP and AVIF conversion, and critical LCP image preloading on Pro plans.
It compresses images on upload and in bulk, applies lazy loading and automatic resizing, detects incorrectly sized images, and supports directory and background optimization.
Headquarters
wpmudev.comPricing
(10 GB DAM storage, 40 GB bandwidth) $9/month
(225 GB DAM storage, 225 GB bandwidth) $89/month
(CDN, 50+ GB traffic) $36+/year
Categories
Popularity
Determined by the number of sites using each technology.
Market share
Popularity by country
Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.
Awards
- 🥈 Second most popular in Indonesia in the Image Optimization category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in Indonesia in the DAM category.
- 🥈 Second most popular in India in the DAM category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United States in the DAM category.
- 🥉 Third most popular in the United Kingdom in the DAM category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United States in the Image Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the Image Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Spain in the Image Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Australia in the Image Optimization category.
- 🥇 Most popular in Brazil in the Image Optimization category.
Popularity by domain category
Determined by the number of sites in each category.
Top sites
Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.
Compare alternatives
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🗃️ About This Data
- We evaluate the popularity of technologies based on the number of websites where we detect their usage.
- Technologies without a detectable web footprint, and those we do not track, are not reflected in the calculated market share.
- This report is based on the analysis of 3,814,833 websites.
- Statistics were last calculated on .
- For more details, see our methodology and disclaimer.