Image Foundry vs Cloudflare Images

Resize & Crop

Core resize, crop, and dimension control via Cloudflare Image Resizing.

Feature	Cloudflare	Image Foundry	Notes
Width (`width` / `w`)	✓	✓
Height (`height` / `h`)	✓	✓
Fit Modes (scale-down, contain, cover, crop, pad)	✓	✓	All fit modes mapped
Gravity (auto, center, top, bottom, left, right)	✓	✓	All gravity positions
Focal Point Gravity (`gravity=0.5x0.3`)	✓	✓	Via fp-x / fp-y
Trim (`trim`)	✓	✓	Border trimming
DPR (`dpr`)	✓	✓	1–3x

Output format control and encoding options.

Feature	Cloudflare	Image Foundry	Notes
Output Format (`format` / `f`)	✓	✓	jpg, png, webp, avif, gif
Auto Format (`format=auto`)	✓	✓	Accept-header negotiation
Animation Preservation	✓	✓	anim=true/false
Lossless (`lossless`)	✓	✓	WebP/AVIF lossless
Metadata Stripping (`metadata=none`)	✓	✓	Default behaviour
Metadata Keep (`metadata=keep`)	✓	✓

Quality and compression tuning.

Feature	Cloudflare	Image Foundry	Notes
Quality (`quality` / `q`)	✓	✓	1–100
Compression Default	✓	✓	Auto-compress
Progressive JPEG	✓	✓	Always enabled

Image effects, blur, sharpening, and colour adjustments.

Feature	Cloudflare	Image Foundry	Notes
Blur (`blur`)	✓	✓	Gaussian blur
Sharpen (`sharpen`)	✓	✓
Brightness (`brightness`)	✓	✓
Contrast (`contrast`)	✓	✓
Gamma (`gamma`)	✓	✓
Background Color (`background`)	✓	✓	Hex/CSS colour for padding
Rotation (`rotate`)	✓	✓	90/180/270 degrees
Horizontal Flip	✗	✓	Image Foundry supports h/v flip
Border Overlay	✗	✓	Border/padding via extend

Overlays, face detection, background removal, and AI features.

Feature	Cloudflare	Image Foundry	Notes
Draw Overlay (composite images)	✓	✓	Watermark / blend compositing
Text Overlay	✗	✓	Full text rendering with fonts, colours, alignment
Face Detection & Crop	✗	✓	ML-based face-aware cropping
Face Blur / Pixelate	✗	✓	Privacy features
Background Removal	✗	✓	AI-powered bg-remove
Colour Palette Extraction	✗	✓	JSON/CSS palette output
Duotone / Sepia / Pixelate	✗	✓	Creative filters
Signed URLs (HMAC)	✓	✓

CDN integration, caching, and delivery methods.

Feature	Cloudflare	Image Foundry	Notes
Global CDN	✓	✓	Cloudflare CDN integration
Flexible URL Formats	✓	✓	Query-param + path-based
Polish (auto WebP/AVIF)	✓	✓	auto=format equivalent
Cache Purge	✓	✓
Custom Domains	✓	✓	CNAME + auto SSL
Vary: Accept	✓	✓

Deployment model and operational features.

Feature	Cloudflare	Image Foundry	Notes
Managed SaaS	✓	✓
Self-Hosted Option	✗	✓	Run on your own infra
Open Source (MIT)	✗	✓
S3 / GCS / Azure Sources	◐	✓	CF requires proxy or R2
Web Proxy Sources	✓	✓
Management REST API	✓	✓
Dashboard	✓	✓
Multi-Tenant Support	✗	✓	Built-in tenant isolation
Path-Based URLs (ImageBoss style)	✗	✓	Dual URL format
Cloudflare Workers Required	✓	✗	Image Foundry is standalone