One API Platform for Images, Video & Audio
Bytescale is the all-in-one platform for file storage, media processing APIs, and content delivery.
Why developers 
Bytescale:
Flexible storage
Bring your existing storage and media assets to Bytescale, or use Bytescale's storage for performance and simplicity. You can switch storage at any time.
Built-in storage: Works out of the box. Get up and running immediately. SOC 2 compliant.
External storage: AWS S3, Google Storage, Cloudflare R2, and DigitalOcean Spaces.
Reverse proxy support: process images, videos, and audio hosted elsewhere via HTTP.
Built for developers
Bytescale gives developers a single cloud platform to upload, store, transform, optimize, and serve media files to billions of users.
Simple APIs, SDKs & Widgets
Build new features in minutes, not days, with Bytescale's simple APIs, SDKs, and widgets, which are designed to speed up feature development.
Enjoy SDKs that allow you to upload files in 3 lines of code and simple URL APIs to transform media on the fly.
Remarkable performance
Serve optimized images, videos, and audio, with Bytescale's worldwide CDN, real-time media processing APIs, and next-gen media formats.
Up to 90% smaller images, videos & audio
~10ms latency: edge-cache hits
~200ms latency: perma-cache hits*
* Bytescale uses a permanent cache to return processed images, videos and audio near-instantly on all edge-cache misses, forever.
Image processing APIs
Resize, crop, convert, optimize, and watermark images with simple URL commands.
Optimize images: WebP, AVIF, BlurHash & more.
Convert images: HEIC, GIF, JPG, PDF & more.
Resize & crop images: supports auto cropping.
BlurHash, WebP, AVIF & more
Upgrade your web app to the latest image technologies, from BlurHash image placeholders, to WebP and AVIF.
BlurHash: for instant image placeholders.
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
Resize, trim, crop, convert, and optimize your videos with simple URL commands.
Optimize & convert videos: set bitrate & more.
Video thumbnails: automatic & manual.
Real-time transcoding: playback in seconds.
Stream videos on demand
Stream your videos to millions of viewers in seconds, with adaptive bitrate (ABR) and real-time transcoding.
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
Convert, optimize, and concatenate audio files with our real-time audio processing APIs.
Convert audio: from almost any input format.
Optimize audio: set sample rate, bitrate, etc.
Real-time transcoding: playback in seconds.
Serve audio to millions
Stream audio content to millions of listeners in seconds, with adaptive bitrate (ABR) and real-time transcoding.
Adaptive Bitrate (ABR): offer your users multiple bitrates and quality settings.
HTTP Live Streaming (HLS): reduce bandwidth usage, playback latency, and buffering.
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.
Optimized content delivery
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