# Add libvips for image processing

**Project:** General | **Board:** Live | **Votes:** 1
**URL:** https://roadmap.ploi.cloud/projects/1-general/items/120-add-libvips-for-image-processing

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My apps are processing a lot of (large) images. Therefore I've been running into some OOM issues with my servers. For performance reasons I'd like to switch to libvips for image processing. I've done some benchmarks to show the difference between the image solutions and libvips is clearly the winner.

### Test Configuration
  
Image: 11.57 MB JPEG
Operations: Crop to aspect ratio → Resize (Lanczos) → Apply mirror bleed (edges + corners)
Iterations: 3 per test

### Results

| Size | Output Dimensions | Imagick | GD | libvips |
|------|-------------------|---------|-----|---------|
| 300×400mm | 4,701 × 5,882 px | 43,724ms | 1,482ms | 233ms |
| 400×500mm | 5,882 × 7,064 px | 5,100ms | 1,855ms | 216ms |
| 450×600mm | 6,473 × 8,245 px | 27,449ms | 2,298ms | 281ms |

### Performance Comparison

| Size | Fastest | vs GD | vs Imagick |
|------|---------|-------|------------|
| 300×400mm | libvips | 6.4x faster | 188x faster |
| 400×500mm | libvips | 8.6x faster | 24x faster |
| 450×600mm | libvips | 8.2x faster | 98x faster |


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## Comments

**Zander van der Meer** (2026-01-16T09:27:10+00:00):
The `vips` extension has been added to the php extensions list!