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Firesize vs Kraken.io: What are the differences?
What is Firesize? On the fly image resizing. No code required. Built-in CDN. Firesize is a hosted image processing proxy. It's focused on doing one thing fast: resizing and cropping images on demand. It's a simple url based API allows you to quickly generate images on demand.
What is Kraken.io? Image optimization and compression API. Kraken supports JPEG, PNG and GIF files. You can optimize your images in two ways - by providing an URL of the image you want to optimize or by uploading an image file directly to Kraken API.
Firesize and Kraken.io belong to "Image Processing and Management" category of the tech stack.
Some of the features offered by Firesize are:
- Processing options specified via URL
- URL signing (for security)
- Process images from anywhere (no uploading to Firesize required)
On the other hand, Kraken.io provides the following key features:
- Developer-Friendly API
- WordPress Plugin
- Dedicated Infrastructure
Firesize is an open source tool with 92 GitHub stars and 40 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Firesize's open source repository on GitHub.
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