Immich vs Thumbor
A side-by-side comparison of two self-hosted photo management options
— licensing, setup difficulty, resource needs, and what each one
replaces.
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Compare Thumbor with
choose an app… Syncthing LocalSend MinIO Jellyfin copyparty Puter PhotoPrism croc qBittorrent Spacedrive Nextcloud File Browser SeaweedFS SRS Cloudreve Ente Photos DeepFace Magic Wormhole Navidrome Kodi gallery-dl Koel Jackett Beets PeerTube Transmission Sonarr MeTube Color Thief darktable LibrePhotos Photoview imaginary Google Photos Takeout Helper Lychee Piwigo Memories Hydrus Network Danbooru OwnPhotos Images.weserv.nl ExifCleaner PiGallery2 Photonix ChronoFrame Damselfly Immich Kiosk exifr digiKam HomeGallery Chevereto PictShare Sigal thumbsup nanogallery2 Nextcloud Photos Damselfly Web Photofield Shotwell Server Zenphoto Lutim fgallery SPIS Memtly Mejiro This week in past Coppermine Tonido Photos MyPhotoShare Mediagoblin PhotoStructure Reservo Single File PHP Gallery
Feature Immich Thumbor Category Photo Management Photo Management License AGPL-3.0 MIT Language TypeScript Python Setup difficulty Medium Medium Min. RAM 2,048 MB 512 MB Deployment docker docker GitHub stars ★ 109,945 ★ 10,510 First released 2022 2025 Replaces Google Photos, iCloud Photos —
Why pick each one
Choose Immich if… Excellent mobile apps Fast and feature-rich Very active development Immich details Choose Thumbor if… Released under the MIT license First-class Docker support for quick deployment Mature project with 10.5k GitHub stars Written in Python Thumbor details
Frequently asked questions Is Immich or Thumbor better? Neither is universally better. Immich has the larger community; both share a medium setup difficulty, so the decision comes down to features and licensing.
Are Immich and Thumbor free and open-source? Yes. Immich is licensed under AGPL-3.0 and Thumbor under MIT. Both can be self-hosted at no software cost.
Can I run Immich and Thumbor with Docker? Immich: yes. Thumbor: yes.