API Platform forImages, Videos & Audio
The best way to serve images, videos, and audio. Trusted by 1000s of developers worldwide.
Why developers 
Bytescale:
Integrate in seconds,
scale to billions
Streamline file uploads, storage, media processing, and content delivery with one cloud platform.
Pick and choose the parts of Bytescale you need:
Image, Video & Audio APIs
Built-in Storage & External Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Optimized content delivery
Serve optimized images, videos, and audio at scale, with global CDN coverage and realtime media APIs.
Up to 90% smaller images, videos, and audio.
~8ms latency: on cache hit.
~200ms latency: on cache miss.*
* Bytescale uses a permanent cache to return processed images, videos and audio near-instantly on CDN cache misses, forever.
High-performance storage
Benefit from simple, fast, enterprise-grade storage with zero setup and no ongoing maintenance.
Reliable and secure: SOC 2 compliant and certified. AES-256 encryption at rest. Multi-zone redundancy.
Permanent cache: eliminates file reprocessing on edge cache misses, resulting in ultra-fast responses.
Edge cache: as low as 8ms responses on edge cache hits from our global content delivery network.
External storage support
Use Bytescale's built-in storage or bring your own storage.
Built-in storage: Works out of the box. Get up and running immediately. SOC 2 compliant.
External storage: AWS S3, Azure Storage, Google Storage, Cloudflare R2, and DigitalOcean Spaces.
Reverse proxy support: optimize and serve images, videos, and audio hosted elsewhere.
Upload Widgets, SDKs & APIs
Need to handle user file uploads?
Need to handle user file uploads? Simplify file uploads with our APIs and SDKs. Start uploading files in seconds from any website or application.
Image processing APIs
Resize, crop, convert, optimize, and watermark images with simple URL commands.
BlurHash, WebP, AVIF & more: next-generation image formats for optimal performance.
Improve performance: improve your website's Google PageSpeed score by reducing Largest Contentful Paint (LCP) with BlurHashes.
Reduce bandwidth by up to 90%: with WebP, AVIF, and configurable image quality and compression.
Video processing APIs
Stream your videos to billions of viewers, with simple video URLs that play videos while they transcode.
Adaptive Bitrate (ABR): stream in multiple bitrates and resolutions for difference devices.
HTTP Live Streaming (HLS): reduce bandwidth usage, playback latency, and buffering.
H.264, H.265, VP8 & VP9: optimized next-generation video codecs.
Audio processing APIs
Stream audio content to billions of listeners in seconds, with adaptive bitrate (ABR) and realtime transcoding.
Convert audio: from almost any input format.
Optimize audio: set sample rate, bitrate, and more.
HLS, AAC, MP3 & WAV: multiple outputs supported.
Public and private assets
Optionally protect your images, videos, and audio using JWT-based auth, to give your app control over file access permissions.
Public file access: serve public assets for your app or website.
Private file access: use JWTs to authorize uploads and downloads via your own API.
Remarkable performance
Optimize and serve images, videos, and audio at lightning-fast speeds
to reduce page load times and improve the UX of your web app.
Realtime Media Processing
External Storage Support
Permanent Caching
600+ Locations
Affordable for everyone
Bytescale outperforms bundled, home-grown, and dedicated image processing solutions in cost efficiency, making it the top choice for large web apps.
Low pricing: $0.25 per 1000 source images*
(Industry average: $5 - $15 per 1000 source images.)
No monthly re-billing: no charge for image optimizations you've already performed.
(Many vendors charge for the number of optimized images requested each month, even if you've optimized them before.)
Adjustable costs: configure processing time vs. bandwidth to suit your app's traffic profile.
Permanent caching
* Bytescale charges based on processing time, which you can control through image compression, image quality, output format, and output dimensions. $0.25 per 1000 images is based on 600ms of processing time per image, which is the approximate time it takes to process a 4000×3000 JPEG into a thumbnail.
Bytescale handled millions of new images per month for our viral marketing campaign. It's a powerful, scalable platform.
— Zeke Sikelianos, Data Scientist, Replicate
Any input media file,
we can handle it.
Start serving optimized images, videos, and audio. Whether you want to upload files to Bytescale, or your files are already hosted elsewhere, Bytescale is the right solution for you.
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Image, Video & Audio Processing
Process media files on-demand and serve the results in milliseconds, with web-optimized output formats.
Media API Reference
Upload Widget, SDKs & APIs
Give your users the best file upload experience with our drop-in widget, which installs in 7 lines of code.
Upload API Reference