I am indeed founder of Gumlet. Here are few reasons which makes it superior.

- cheaper pricing and no minimum monthly payments

- global image processing locations - ensures lowest latency regardless of location of your users

- no lock-in and wide variety of cloud storage support including DigitalOcean Spaces

- prompt support - less than 8 hour response time for all users

- GIF support

- especially compared to kraken, we charge only $0.1 per GB compared to their lowest pricing of $1 per GB

- strong enterprise focus - lot of features planned for enterprise support.

Thanks for the straightforward reply!

Are there plans for a self-hosted option? Some business might be scared of being so dependent on Gumlet's uptime for their mission critical image processing.

Gumlet seems to cater towards processing images on the fly, which is what a lot of your competitors also do. It might be interested to also cater towards using Gumlet as a service to pre-process images as part of a pipeline.

I am just thinking aloud, I have no real basis for these ideas at the moment. Just my two cents.

I wish you the best of luck and I'll keep Gumlet in mind, the homepage looks very sleek.

That's a good idea. We will consider it if we find appropriate customers for the same. Meanwhile, for uptime, we provide 99.9% uptime SLA which we have been able to maintain since our launch.

Am I able to give an arbitrary URL to an image for processing/display in the browser? I’ve been using a self hosted option called Imaginary [0] but am getting tired of self hosting it.

[0] https://github.com/h2non/imaginary

You can indeed do it. We call that a "web proxy" source. It's easy to setup and get started. Please try it out and ping us in customer chat if you need any help.