ImageEngine Kube Pricing — Flat Rate vs. Per-Request SaaS
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What are you paying today for image management?
Your current monthly bill with a SaaS provider like Cloudinary, imgix, or similar.
$4,500
per month
≈ 84M requests/month
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Enterprise
Up to 250M requests/mo
Your current bill
SaaS provider
$4,500
per month · usage-based
- Bandwidth credits 4,021
- Transform credits 8,434
- Storage credits 402
- Rate $0.35/credit
✓ ImageEngine Kube
56% less · $2,501/mo back
ImageEngine Kube Price
$1,999
flat monthly fee · tied to your tier, never to traffic
- Infrastructure estimate (your own AWS, at cost) ~ $0
- CDN bandwidth $342
- CDN requests $63
- Compute (K8s nodes) $300
- Estimated monthly total ~ $1,999
Annual contract: $19,990/yr — equivalent to 10 months.
Estimate infrastructure costs
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Example AWS spend to run ImageEngine Kube
Infrastructure is billed by your cloud provider, not us — if you already run your own CDN, these costs may not apply. Turn on the switch above to include an estimate.
- CDN bandwidth $342
- CDN requests $63
- Compute (K8s nodes) $300
- Estimated infrastructure ~ $705/mo
AWS infrastructure rates
- CDN bandwidth
$ /GB
CloudFront first 10 TB: $0.085/GB
CDN requests
$ /10k req
CloudFront HTTPS: $0.0075/10k
Compute (Kubernetes nodes)
Compute nodes
nodes
2 nodes minimum for HA; scale up for high traffic
Cost per node
$ /mo
~ $150/mo per c5.xlarge
Model a scenario
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Project forward: holiday spikes, traffic growth, responsive breakpoints
Responsive breakpoints
Generate ~5 transform variants per image. Multiplies transform credits by ~1.5× on the SaaS side. Kube's license stays flat.
- Seasonal spike (Nov–Dec)
- 1.5× — mild holiday bump
- 2× — typical e-commerce
- 3× — high-traffic event
- 5× — viral / flash sale
Applies a traffic multiplier to Nov and Dec. The SaaS bill spikes with traffic; Kube's license stays flat (only your CDN passes the extra through).
Traffic growth over 12 months
0% — no growth
Traffic you expect to add by month 12. SaaS scales linearly; Kube's license is fixed within your tier (your CDN passes through at cost).
12-month projection
With your scenario applied
You'd save $0 over 12 months
- SaaS (competitor)
- Kube license (flat)
- Infrastructure (variable · stacked)
Advanced settings
Tune image size, cache ratio, competitor pricing
Your workload
- Avg. image size
KB
Default: 50 KB per image
- New / unique images
% of requests that aren't cached
- Credit price (competitor)
$/credit
Typical SaaS rate: $0.35 – $0.40
Billing model
Flat monthly license · No per-request fees
Infrastructure
Your CDN · Full data ownership
SaaS alternatives
Bundle CDN + storage in per-credit pricing
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Most enterprise image optimization platforms lock you into opaque, usage-based billing that scales against you — the more your traffic grows, the more you pay. Kube by ImageEngine is a model entirely different. It's the first self-hosted image optimization engine that runs inside your own infrastructure, giving you full ownership of your data, your pipeline, and your costs.
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