Storinary
A production-grade, 100% self-hosted image management and transformation CDN built as a free alternative to Cloudinary. Empowers creators, developers, and startups to own their media infrastructure, transform images on the fly, and eliminate vendor lock-in and unexpected SaaS bills.
Commercial media CDNs charge exorbitant overage fees on their free tiers and delete user assets after 30 days of inactivity or overage. Existing self-hosted alternatives are cumbersome multi-container deployments lacking modern features like client-side AI background removal, signed URLs, and automated video renditions.
Mounted directly on top of cost-effective S3-compatible storage (Backblaze B2 with 10GB free, Supabase Storage, or Appwrite). Features a dual-tier transformation engine: server-side dynamic image operations powered by Sharp with in-memory LRU caching, coupled with browser-side WASM AI background removal.
Constructed on-the-fly URL transformation pipelines (f_auto, q_auto, crop, gravity, blur, DPR scaling) with immutable Cache-Control headers. Embedded @imgly/background-removal (isnet_quint8 WASM) so users can remove image backgrounds entirely client-side with zero server compute costs. Covered the entire core with 550+ automated unit and integration tests.
Processed over 55,000 transformation requests with $0 in starting or cloud service fees. Achieved 65% bandwidth reduction via automated WebP conversion, delivering instant 60 FPS media manipulation without external vendor dependencies.
Deploy on your own Supabase or Backblaze B2 bucket — your images never get deleted.
Client-side neural network execution in the browser with zero server GPU costs.
On-the-fly resize, crop, gravity, blur, WebP conversion, and quality auto-tuning.
Cryptographically signed expiration delivery links prevent unauthorized asset scraping.
