The Tinify ecosystem

images processed

Live total across compress, resize, crop, and convert.

free operations every month

Only successful operations count toward usage.

cheaper than TinyPNG at 10,000 operations

Tinify Pro at $29 vs TinyPNG pay-as-you-go at $85.50 a month.

Every surface

Pick where the image lives.

Browser, terminal, codebase, CI, or an AI agent. Every path calls the same versioned API, counts operations the same way, and keeps the same honest results.

Web tools

Compress, resize, crop, and convert in the browser, with no account and up to 50 files per batch.

Free, no signup
AVIF, WebP, JPEG, PNG, and GIF
Files deleted after two hours

Compress Resize Crop Convert

Image API

The same engine over a versioned HTTP API with idempotent requests and a stable error model.

500 free operations every month
Only successful operations count
Download URLs expire after two hours

cURLPOST /images/compress

curl -X POST https://api.tinify.dev/api/v1/images/compress \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer tnf_live_..." \
  -F "file=@hero.png" -F "quality_mode=balanced"

Read the API docs

MCP server

Give Claude, Cursor, Codex, and any MCP client five image tools backed by the API.

Runs over stdio with npx
Node.js 20 or newer
Same 500 free operations

Terminal

claude mcp add tinify -e TINIFY_API_KEY=tnf_live_... -- npx -y @tinify-dev/mcp

MCP setup @tinify-dev/mcp on npm

JavaScript SDK

A zero-dependency TypeScript client for compress, resize, crop, convert, usage, and batches.

Dual ESM and CommonJS build
Idempotency keys added for you
Typed errors from real API codes

npm

npm i @tinify-dev/client

@tinify-dev/client on npm Source on GitHub

CLI

Compress a folder of images from the terminal. The SDK ships a binary, so there is nothing extra to install.

Bundled with the SDK
Glob inputs, writes *.min.png next to each file
compress, resize, crop, convert

Terminal

npx @tinify-dev/client compress *.png

@tinify-dev/client on npm

GitHub Action

Compress images in CI and only rewrite files that actually get smaller.

check or write mode
Sticky per-file pull request comment
Never grows a file, never pushes on its own

workflow.yml

- uses: tinify-dev/compress-action@v1
  with:
    api_key: ${{ secrets.TINIFY_API_KEY }}
    mode: check
    comment: true

Action on GitHub CI setup guide

Claude Code plugin

Add the MCP server to Claude Code from the plugin marketplace in two commands.

Wraps @tinify-dev/mcp
Runs inside Claude Code
Same tools, same free tier

Claude Code

/plugin marketplace add Stianlars1/tinify-claude-plugin
/plugin install tinify@tinify

Plugin details Plugin on GitHub

Compare and pricing

Honest cost math against TinyPNG, ShortPixel, and Kraken.io, run at your own volume.

Per-operation pricing, not per byte
66% cheaper than TinyPNG at 10,000 operations
Free for 500 operations a month

Compare Pricing

Honest by design

The same promises on every surface.

The rules that make the web tools trustworthy are the rules the API, SDK, and agents inherit. Nothing changes when you automate.

Compression never returns a larger file

When an encoded result would be bigger, the API returns the original and marks it optimized: false. This holds for compression only; resize and convert report changes plainly.

Files are deleted after two hours

Uploads and results expire two hours after processing. Nothing is retained, and file names and image contents are never used for analytics.

Only successful operations count

A failed operation is free. The 500 monthly operations and every paid plan count completed work, not attempts.

No ads, no watermarks, no signup

The web tools run in the browser without an account. Paid plans add volume, not features held back from the free tier.

Start with 500 free operations.

Create a key, or read the docs first. Only successful operations count, and the free tier resets every month.

Create a free API key Read the docs