Pixrush · pre-alpha · May 2026

A drop-in image CDN for indie hackers.

Resize, smart-crop, WebP/AVIF on the fly. Bring your own R2 / S3 / B2. Sub-100ms signed URLs at the edge. Nine dollars a month, not eighty-nine.

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No credit card. Free tier ships with a watermark — upgrade to remove.

One signed URL. Every transform.

Pixrush wraps the battle-tested imgproxy engine with a managed edge, account-scoped HMAC keys, and a dashboard that fits in a tab. Drop a single string into your <img> tag.

example.tsxsigned once · cached forever
<img
  src="https://cdn.pixrush.dev/<sig>/rs:fit:800/q:85/plain/s3://bucket/photo.jpg@webp"
  alt="A clear lens, an honest photo"
  loading="lazy"
/>

Edge-signed in <10 ms

HMAC-SHA256 against your account key, computed on Vercel Edge. The bytes never flow through our gateway.

BYO storage by default

Point us at your R2, S3, B2 — anywhere S3-compatible. Zero egress on Cloudflare R2. We don't lock you in.

WebP, AVIF, smart-crop

Resize, crop, sharpen, blur, watermark. Format negotiation per-request. Pin a format or let us auto-pick.

Pricing

Pay for the URLs you actually serve.

No seat fees. No per-asset surprises. Overage is metered honestly and cuts off before it embarrasses anyone.

Free

$0forever

Watermarked. Try the SDK on your weekend project.

  • 10,000 signed URLs / mo
  • 1 GB bandwidth
  • Free-tier watermark
Choose plan

Starter

$9/ month

The everyday plan for indie SaaS, blogs, and small stores.

  • 100,000 signed URLs / mo
  • 10 GB bandwidth
  • No watermark
Start free

Pro

$29/ month

When traffic justifies a custom CNAME and tighter SLAs.

  • 1,000,000 signed URLs
  • 100 GB bandwidth
  • Custom CNAME
Choose plan

Scale

$99/ month

Volume pricing with engineer-on-call escalation.

  • 10M signed URLs
  • 1 TB bandwidth
  • Support SLA
Choose plan

vs the alternatives

Built for the long tail.

Cloudinary, Imgix, ImageKit, Cloudflare Images — they're all great tools. They're priced for businesses with a procurement team. Pixrush is priced for a side project that pays for itself.

Cloudinary$89/mo

Enterprise pricing for the long tail.

Imgix$75/mo

Complex source-set system.

ImageKit$49/mo

Pricing has crept up.

Cloudflare Images$5/mo + per-image

Opaque per-asset fees.

Pixrush$9/mo

The five things 95% of image-CDN users actually need.