Show HN: Openinary – Self-hosted image processing like Cloudinary

Posted by fheysen on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @11:01AM
from the show-hn dept.

Hi HN!

I built Openinary because Cloudinary and Uploadcare lock your images and charge per request.

Openinary lets you self-host a full image pipeline: transform, optimize, and cache images on your infra; S3, Cloudflare R2, or any S3-compatible storage.

It’s the only self-hosted Cloudinary-like tool handling both transformations and delivery with a simple URL API (/t/w_800,h_800,f_avif/sample.jpg).

Built with Node.js, Docker-ready.

GitHub: https://github.com/openinary/openinary

Feedback welcome; especially from Cloudinary users wanting the same UX but on their own infra!

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Re:Show HN: Openinary – Self-hosted image processing like Cl... by darrenwestall on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @05:40PM (#46370333)

Any plans to support text overlays? :)

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Re:Show HN: Openinary – Self-hosted image processing like Cl... by darrenwestall on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @05:41PM (#46370341)

(I pay $2k a month to Cloudinary!)

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Re:Show HN: Openinary – Self-hosted image processing like Cl... by fheysen on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @06:32PM (#46370761)

ouch... that’s exactly why I built this!

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Re:Show HN: Openinary – Self-hosted image processing like Cl... by fheysen on Tuesday December 23, 2025 @06:32PM (#46370756)

yes, text overlays are planned :) I'm aiming to match all Cloudinary’s core features (excluding AI) with a compatible URL API!

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