sharp VS libvips

Compare sharp vs libvips and see what are their differences.

sharp

High performance Node.js image processing, the fastest module to resize JPEG, PNG, WebP, AVIF and TIFF images. Uses the libvips library. (by lovell)
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sharp libvips
96 23
27,769 8,909
- 1.9%
9.4 9.2
5 days ago 8 days ago
JavaScript C
Apache License 2.0 GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0 only
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sharp

Posts with mentions or reviews of sharp. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-11-21.

libvips

Posts with mentions or reviews of libvips. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2024-01-09.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing sharp and libvips you can also consider the following projects:

jimp - An image processing library written entirely in JavaScript for Node, with zero external or native dependencies.

squoosh - Make images smaller using best-in-class codecs, right in the browser.

OpenCV - Open Source Computer Vision Library

gm - GraphicsMagick for node

imagick - Go binding to ImageMagick's MagickWand C API

Next.js - The React Framework

pica - Resize image in browser with high quality and high speed

sveltekit-image-plugin - SvelteKit demo code for using vite-imagetools to add cached, responsive, Next-Gen images to a SvelteKit site with no cumulative layout shift.

imagemin - [Unmaintained] Minify images seamlessly

sharp-libvips - Packaging scripts to prebuild libvips and its dependencies - you're probably looking for https://github.com/lovell/sharp

lwip - Light Weight Image Processor for NodeJS

GD - GD Graphics Library