For indie developers # Image hosting for people who ship alone. I'm an indie dev myself, and PixelVault is the tool I need and use: upload an image, get a CDN URL, resize it with query params. No credit pools, no origin to configure, no sales call. [Get started](/docs/)  ### Free, and it stays free 200 MB storage, 500 uploads/month, 1 GB bandwidth. No credit card, no trial clock. Side projects shouldn't come with a billing page. ### Zero egress fees A Hacker News spike won't turn into a surprise bill. Serving images costs you nothing extra, ever. ### One call to upload POST a file, get a permanent CDN URL back. Works from curl, the CLI, or any language with an HTTP client. No bucket, no CORS, no IAM. ### Transforms in the URL Resize, crop, and convert to WebP/AVIF with `?w=400&fit=cover&fmt=webp`. No per-transformation credits and no image pipeline to maintain. [See live examples](/images/). ### Pricing you can hold in your head Free, then $9 or $29 a month. One flat plan, not a credit pool you have to forecast. See [pricing](/pricing/). ### Works with your coding agent MCP server, `llms.txt`, and OpenAPI, so Claude Code or Cursor can upload screenshots without you copy-pasting. See [image hosting for AI agents](/for-ai-agents/). ### No lock-in Export your whole project as a tar archive, free, any time. If you outgrow us, you leave with your images. ### A real API REST with an OpenAPI 3.1 spec, idempotent uploads, and structured errors. Read the [image hosting API](/image-hosting-api/) overview. ### Lighter than the big platforms Cloudinary, ImageKit, and imgix are built for enterprise media teams. If you mostly host, resize, and convert, see how we compare to [ImageKit](/alternatives/imagekit/). ## Recipes that work today Replace the path with your own image. Each variant is generated on the first request, then cached at the edge for a year. ### Upload with one command No account needed to try it. The link lasts 30 days; add an API key to keep images permanently. ``` curl -F "file=@screenshot.png" https://api.pixelvault.dev/v1/images ``` Copy The JSON response carries the CDN `url`. ### Responsive images with srcset Three widths from one upload; the browser picks the one it needs. ``` ``` Copy 400, 800 and 1200 are exact supported widths. Other values snap up to the nearest one. ### Import from a URL Let the server fetch a public image instead of uploading bytes. Add `dedupe` to skip files you already have. ``` curl https://api.pixelvault.dev/v1/images \ -H "Authorization: Bearer $PIXELVAULT_API_KEY" \ -H "Content-Type: application/json" \ -d '{"url":"https://example.com/photo.jpg","dedupe":true}' ``` Copy The URL must be direct: redirects are refused, and some hosts block server-side fetches. ## Host your first image in 30 seconds Free tier, no credit card. If something's missing, email me. [Read the quickstart](/docs/)