Pricing

Thumbrella Cloud

The free Thumbrella Cloud account is recommend for most users. This include an amazing worldwide edge cache and supports all formats and features of the Thumbrella server. No infrastructure to manage or servers to maintain. The free service provides over 100,000 unique thumbnail renders per month.

Prefer unlimited usage or offline capability? Learn about self-hosting your own server which is free, open-source, and fully featured.

Cloud Free

No payment information needed. Connect your existing developer account in two clicks. The ideal plan for most users.

Edge Cache10 MB
Thumbnails2,600 daily
72,000+ monthly

Cloud Paid

$5/month

Established users can upgrade to the paid plan for even more extensive user limits.

Edge Cache200 MB
Thumbnails12,000 daily
330,000+ monthly

Sponsor

$50/month

A sponsorship subscription is a whole different thing. This includes an amazing licensed docker image and Cloud limits into the millions.

But this is really about supporting the Thumbrella project.

Accounts above their usage limits can still use the Thumbrella api for cached and simple results. Complicated renders will fallback on simpler placeholders in the meantime. The service degrades but contiues to work reasonably.

Every account can create multiple authentication tokens and divide up their quota across each of them. Each token gets custom restrictions and rules.

Comparisons

Most online image services are focused on high quality image editing. This makes them inefficient and expensive for bulk generation of thumbnails. Thumbrella also wins by offering a wide range of supported formats and file types.

	Thumbrella Cloud	Thumbrella Hosted	Cloudinary	Imageboss	Imgix	Cloudflare Images
70k monthly thumbnails	$0	$0	$99 _monthly	$90 _monthly	$75 _monthly	$46 _monthly
300k monthly thumbnails	$5 _monthly	$0	$249 _monthly	$360 _monthly	$300 _monthly	$170 _monthly
Edge caching worldwide	YES		YES	YES	YES	YES
Efficient batch operations	YES	YES
Supports camera formats	YES	YES	YES	heic	heic	YES
Supports videos	YES	YES	YES		YES
Open source server		YES

(Approximate pricing and features as of July 2026)

Free Demo Server

The Thumbrella Demo Gallery has a collection of media and acts as a free server for the media it hosts. No account needed, point any client connect string to https://demo.thumbrella.dev and start making requests.