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Thumbor

Open-source · self-hostable · replaces 1 SaaS tool on os-alt

thumbor/thumbor · alive · ★ 10.5k · last commit 4w ago · 35 open issues

License: MIT

Good fit for Teams who want smart-crop / face detection / feature detection as first-class — Thumbor pioneered this category.

Weak at Python stack with more moving parts than imgproxy; less throughput per CPU on heavy transforms.

In a terminal? npx -y github:SolvoHQ/os-alt-cli cloudinary prints the Cloudinary comparison table including Thumbor. how the CLI works →

Replaces these SaaS

  • Cloudinary · Image / video CDN + on-the-fly transformation

    `docker run -p 8888:8888 minimalcompact/thumbor`. Thumbor URLs follow `/{unsafe|signature}/{operations}/{source-image}` — e.g. `/300x200/smart/example.com/image.jpg` for smart-crop to 300x200. Smart crop uses ML detectors (face/feature). Storage backends include S3, GCS, filesystem; result cache via Redis or Memcached.

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