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Most enterprise image optimization platforms lock you into opaque, usage-based billing that scales against you — the more your traffic grows, the more you pay. Kube by ImageEngine is a different model entirely. It's the first self-hosted image optimization engine that runs inside your own infrastructure, giving you full ownership of your data, your pipeline, and your costs.
Use the estimator below to see exactly how a flat-rate software license compares to per-credit SaaS pricing at your traffic volume.

Monthly image requests
100M
requests / month
5M
25M
50M
100M
250M
500M
1B
2B+
KB
Default: 50 KB per image
%
% of requests that are unique (not cached)
AWS infrastructure rates
$/GB/mo
AWS S3 Standard — default $0.023/GB
$/GB
CloudFront first 10 TB — default $0.085/GB
$/10k req
CloudFront HTTPS — default $0.0075/10k
Compute (Kubernetes nodes)
nodes
EKS worker nodes running Kube pods
$/mo
~$150/mo per c5.xlarge (4 vCPU, 8 GB)
Credit-based SaaS rate
$/credit
Typical SaaS rate: $0.35 – $0.40/credit
Enterprise
Up to 250M requests/mo
ImageEngine Kube
Software license
$1,999
per month · flat rate
AWS infrastructure
$491
S3 storage$11
CDN bandwidth$405
CDN requests$75
Monthly total (TCO)
$2,490
Competitor Credit-based SaaS
Estimated cost
$5,336
per month · usage-based
Bandwidth credits
4,768 cr
Transform credits
10,000 cr
Storage credits
477 cr
Total credits
15,245 cr
Rate
$0.35 / credit
1 credit = 1 GB bandwidth · 1 credit = 1,000 transforms · 1 credit = 1 GB storage
Storage & CDN included in credit cost
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You save with Kube
53%
vs credit-based SaaS · $2,846/mo saved
Annual contract: $23,880/yr — equivalent to 10 months
Scenario Planning
Responsive Breakpoints
Other competitive solutions generate ~5 transform variants per image for responsive breakpoints, multiplying transformation costs by ~1.5× on top of base request charges.
Seasonal Spike (Nov–Dec)
Applies a traffic multiplier to November and December. With per-request pricing, your competitor bill spikes while IEKube stays flat.
Traffic Growth Over 12 Months
0% — no growth
How much additional traffic do you expect by month 12? Per-request billing scales linearly; IEKube tier price stays fixed.
Billing model
Flat monthly license · No per-request fees
Infrastructure
Your S3 + CDN · Full data ownership
SaaS alternatives
Bundle CDN + storage in per-credit pricing
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