Immich
by Immich · Self-hosted photo and video management on your own server
BenchRank score
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Overview
Immich is self-hosted software for backing up and managing photos and videos on your own server. You install the server yourself and back up from a phone using the Android or iOS app, then browse, search and organise the library through Immich. The site links to a public demo, documentation and a GitHub repository.
- Best for
- People who want to run their own photo and video backup server instead of a hosted service.
- Pricing
- No prices are shown: the apps and server are offered as downloads, and the site sells an optional product key without stating its cost.
- Runs on
- WebSelf-hostedCLI
Strengths and trade-offs
Strengths
- Runs on your own server, so files stay on hardware you control
- Mobile apps for Android and iOS alongside a server download
- Public demo and Discord available before you commit
- Browse, search and organise photos and videos in one place
Trade-offs
- You must supply, run and maintain the server yourself
- The pricing page shows no prices or plan details
- A product key is sold but what it unlocks is not stated
- Captured pages describe features only in broad terms
How Immich markets itself
A structured read of the promise, proof and page design on Immich’s captured homepage.
Homepage capture
“Self-hosted photo and video management solution”
- Angle: Open source / ownership
- Hero: Product screenshot
Pricing
Published plans and prices from Immich’s own pricing page.
How this score is made up
Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.
MCP support
Whether an agent can drive the product through the Model Context Protocol, and how much setup that takes.
API quality
Public API surface: machine-readable spec, official SDKs, documented auth, errors, rate limits and versioning.
Documentation
Publicly reachable docs — coverage, freshness, code samples and machine readability.
Agent friendliness
How readable the site is to an automated client: llms.txt, structured data, server-rendered content, crawler access.
Pricing transparency
Whether real prices are published, self-serve signup exists, and usage costs are knowable without a sales call.
Changelog
A public, dated record of what shipped and when — the clearest signal that a product is still alive.
Marketing site structure
Whether the site answers a buyer's questions: clear positioning, the pages that matter, and accessibility.
Page speed
How fast the site loads for real visitors: Chrome UX Report 75th-percentile LCP, INP and CLS, with a Lighthouse mobile run standing in where a site has too little traffic for field data.
Operational trust
Status page and incident history, security disclosure, compliance and data-processing documentation.
Measured, but not part of the score
Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.
Openness
Source availability, self-hosting, data export and open standards. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — paid SaaS is not worse for being paid SaaS.
Maintenance
Release cadence and repository activity. Scored and shown, but not part of the composite — it is only measurable for open repositories.
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The Immich pages BenchRank reads when it scores the product — its documentation, release notes, status and security pages, and its repository where there is one.
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