diff --git a/.changeset/060-minify-filter.md b/.changeset/060-minify-filter.md
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..96786f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.changeset/060-minify-filter.md
@@ -0,0 +1,5 @@
+---
+"minimizer-webpack-plugin": minor
+---
+
+Allow a minimizer in `minify` to state its own `filter`.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 7c30a9b..98042d8 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -370,6 +370,22 @@ default one, and the tables in
 [webpack's own minimizers](#webpacks-own-minimizers) for `cssMinify` and
 `htmlMinify`.
 
+`filter(name, info)` states which assets this minimizer is offered — return
+`false` to decline one, and anything else (`undefined` included) to accept. It
+answers for a `filter` property on the minimizer function itself, which is what
+the built-ins carry, so setting it here is how you narrow one of them without
+wrapping it.
+
+```js
+new MinimizerPlugin({
+  minify: {
+    implementation: MinimizerPlugin.sharpMinify,
+    options: { encodeOptions: { jpeg: { quality: 80 } } },
+    filter: (name) => !name.includes("do-not-touch"),
+  },
+});
+```
+
 Two keys are filled in before a minimizer sees them, and only when `options`
 does not set them itself: `ecma`, from
 [`output.environment`](https://webpack.js.org/configuration/output/#outputenvironment),
@@ -441,7 +457,28 @@ module.exports = {
 };
 ```
 
-This is what lets **one plugin instance and one worker pool** handle every
+Each entry carries its own `filter` as well as its own `options`, which is how
+the same minimizer runs twice over different assets:
+
+```js
+new MinimizerPlugin({
+  test: /\.(jpe?g|png)$/i,
+  minify: [
+    {
+      implementation: MinimizerPlugin.sharpMinify,
+      options: { encodeOptions: { jpeg: { quality: 60 } } },
+      filter: (name) => name.includes("thumb"),
+    },
+    {
+      implementation: MinimizerPlugin.sharpMinify,
+      options: { encodeOptions: { jpeg: { quality: 90 } } },
+      filter: (name) => !name.includes("thumb"),
+    },
+  ],
+});
+```
+
+This is also what lets **one plugin instance and one worker pool** handle every
 asset type: each built-in ships with a `filter` matching its natural
 extension, so JS, CSS, HTML and JSON need no second instance. `test` still
 defaults to JS only, so widen it to let the other assets reach the dispatcher:
@@ -1177,7 +1214,9 @@ What this reaches:
   `exportType` but `link`).
 - The text an `asset/source` module embeds, and the payload an `asset/inline`
   module encodes — the payload before it is encoded, so the encoding covers
-  what came back.
+  what came back. **A language written as text only**: an inline `svg` is
+  offered, an inline `png` or `jpeg` is not, so a raster image that becomes a
+  `data:` URI is minified by [`generate`](#generate) rather than here.
 - What a document or a stylesheet nests inside itself: an inline `<style>`,
   every `style=""`, a `<script>` holding JavaScript or JSON, an `<svg>` subtree,
   the document an `<iframe srcdoc>` holds, and the payload of a `url()` `data:`
@@ -1950,6 +1989,32 @@ npm install --save-dev imagemin imagemin-mozjpeg imagemin-pngquant
 > run in the webpack process rather than in the worker pool — they do their own
 > threading. Minimizers configured beside them keep the pool.
 
+#### Images that never become files
+
+`minify` runs over emitted assets, so an image that becomes a `data:` URI
+instead of a file — `asset/inline`, or `asset` under
+[`Rule.parser.dataUrlCondition`](https://webpack.js.org/configuration/module/#ruleparserdataurlcondition)
+— never reaches it. An SVG is the exception, since it is text and webpack
+offers it as [embedded source](#embedded-source).
+
+Put the same minimizer under [`generate`](#generate) and it does reach one: a
+generator runs while the module builds, over the bytes themselves, before
+anything encodes them. It renames nothing unless it answers with a name, so a
+minimizer stays a minimizer there.
+
+```js
+new MinimizerPlugin({
+  test: /\.(jpe?g|png)$/i,
+  generate: { implementation: MinimizerPlugin.sharpMinify },
+});
+```
+
+Do not list the same image minimizer in both for the same assets — an emitted
+one would then be re-encoded twice, which costs time and, for a lossy format,
+quality. `generate` covers inlined and emitted images alike; `minify` is the
+one to keep when nothing is inlined, since it runs after the whole build and
+caches per asset. An `"import"` generator needs **webpack 5.111 or newer**.
+
 #### Lossless and lossy
 
 Images are optimized in one of two modes:
diff --git a/src/index.js b/src/index.js
index 578905c..362e062 100644
--- a/src/index.js
+++ b/src/index.js
@@ -220,7 +220,7 @@ const {
 
 /**
  * @template T
- * @typedef {BasePluginOptions & { minimizer: { implementation: MinimizerImplementation<T>, options: MinimizerOptions<T> }, generator?: { implementation: MinimizerImplementation<T>, options: MinimizerOptions<T> } }} InternalPluginOptions
+ * @typedef {BasePluginOptions & { minimizer: { implementation: MinimizerImplementation<T>, options: MinimizerOptions<T>, filters?: (((name: string, info: AssetInfo) => boolean | undefined) | undefined)[] }, generator?: { implementation: MinimizerImplementation<T>, options: MinimizerOptions<T> } }} InternalPluginOptions
  */
 
 const VALIDATION_CONFIGURATION = {
@@ -287,7 +287,7 @@ class TerserPlugin {
       include,
       exclude,
       minimizer:
-        /** @type {{ implementation: MinimizerImplementation<T>, options: MinimizerOptions<T> }} */
+        /** @type {{ implementation: MinimizerImplementation<T>, options: MinimizerOptions<T>, filters?: (((name: string, info: AssetInfo) => boolean | undefined) | undefined)[] }} */
         (normalizeMinimizers(minify, resolvedMinimizerOptions)),
       // Absent unless asked for: it runs while modules build, where the plugin
       // otherwise does nothing.
@@ -508,15 +508,19 @@ class TerserPlugin {
      */
     const matchingMinimizers = (name, info) => {
       const matched = [];
+      const { filters } = this.options.minimizer;
 
       for (let i = 0; i < implementations.length; i++) {
         const impl = implementations[i];
-
-        if (
-          typeof impl.filter !== "function" ||
-          // eslint-disable-next-line unicorn/no-array-method-this-argument
-          impl.filter(name, info) !== false
-        ) {
+        // What `minify` states about this entry answers for it; the property on
+        // the function is what a minimizer says about itself, and is the
+        // fallback rather than a second filter to satisfy.
+        const filter =
+          filters && typeof filters[i] === "function"
+            ? filters[i]
+            : impl.filter;
+
+        if (typeof filter !== "function" || filter(name, info) !== false) {
           matched.push(i);
         }
       }
diff --git a/src/options.json b/src/options.json
index d1160eb..c91fd78 100644
--- a/src/options.json
+++ b/src/options.json
@@ -212,6 +212,10 @@
                     "description": "Options for this minimizer. Preferred over `minimizerOptions`, which is deprecated; setting both for one minimizer is an error.",
                     "type": "object",
                     "additionalProperties": true
+                  },
+                  "filter": {
+                    "description": "Which assets this minimizer is offered, decided by name and info. Overrides a `filter` on the minimizer function itself.",
+                    "instanceof": "Function"
                   }
                 },
                 "required": ["implementation"]
@@ -231,6 +235,10 @@
               "description": "Options for this minimizer. Preferred over `minimizerOptions`, which is deprecated; setting both for one minimizer is an error.",
               "type": "object",
               "additionalProperties": true
+            },
+            "filter": {
+              "description": "Which assets this minimizer is offered, decided by name and info. Overrides a `filter` on the minimizer function itself.",
+              "instanceof": "Function"
             }
           },
           "required": ["implementation"]
diff --git a/src/utils.js b/src/utils.js
index 105ff9e..e06b757 100644
--- a/src/utils.js
+++ b/src/utils.js
@@ -2446,9 +2446,11 @@ function isDescriptor(entry) {
  * Flattens the objects `minify` may hold into the implementation-and-options
  * pair the rest of the plugin reads, so a descriptor's own `options` and the
  * deprecated `minimizerOptions` end up in one place, aligned by position.
+ * `filters` is parallel to `implementation`, and holds only what a descriptor
+ * stated: an entry left undefined falls back to the function's own `filter`.
  * @param {EXPECTED_ANY} minify what `minify` was set to
  * @param {EXPECTED_ANY} declared what `minimizerOptions` says
- * @returns {{ implementation: EXPECTED_ANY, options: EXPECTED_ANY }} the pair
+ * @returns {{ implementation: EXPECTED_ANY, options: EXPECTED_ANY, filters?: (((name: string, info: EXPECTED_ANY) => boolean | undefined) | undefined)[] }} the pair, and the filters descriptors stated
  */
 function normalizeMinimizers(minify, declared) {
   // TODO drop the `declared` fallback in the next major release, with the
@@ -2458,6 +2460,10 @@ function normalizeMinimizers(minify, declared) {
       return { implementation: minify, options: declared };
     }
 
+    const filters = minify.map((one) =>
+      isDescriptor(one) ? one.filter : undefined,
+    );
+
     return {
       implementation: minify.map((one) =>
         isDescriptor(one) ? one.implementation : one,
@@ -2467,6 +2473,7 @@ function normalizeMinimizers(minify, declared) {
           ? one.options
           : getMinimizerOptionsAt(declared, index),
       ),
+      ...(filters.some((one) => typeof one === "function") ? { filters } : {}),
     };
   }
 
@@ -2475,6 +2482,9 @@ function normalizeMinimizers(minify, declared) {
       implementation: minify.implementation,
       options:
         typeof minify.options === "undefined" ? declared : minify.options,
+      ...(typeof minify.filter === "function"
+        ? { filters: [minify.filter] }
+        : {}),
     };
   }
 
diff --git a/test/__snapshots__/validate-options.test.js.snap b/test/__snapshots__/validate-options.test.js.snap
index 3c9f4c7..ebb9b02 100644
--- a/test/__snapshots__/validate-options.test.js.snap
+++ b/test/__snapshots__/validate-options.test.js.snap
@@ -132,15 +132,15 @@ exports[`validation validate 9`] = `
 exports[`validation validate 10`] = `
 "Invalid options object. Terser Plugin has been initialized using an options object that does not match the API schema.
  - options.minify should be one of these:
-   function | [function | object { implementation, options? }, ...] (should not have fewer than 1 item) | object { implementation, options? }
+   function | [function | object { implementation, options?, filter? }, ...] (should not have fewer than 1 item) | object { implementation, options?, filter? }
    -> Allows you to override default minify function. Written as an object it states how to run one minimizer, options included.
    -> Read more at https://github.com/webpack/minimizer-webpack-plugin#number
    Details:
     * options.minify should be an instance of function.
     * options.minify should be an array:
-      [function | object { implementation, options? }, ...] (should not have fewer than 1 item)
+      [function | object { implementation, options?, filter? }, ...] (should not have fewer than 1 item)
     * options.minify should be an object:
-      object { implementation, options? }"
+      object { implementation, options?, filter? }"
 `;
 
 exports[`validation validate 11`] = `
diff --git a/test/minify-option.test.js b/test/minify-option.test.js
index 6d60262..946a3fc 100644
--- a/test/minify-option.test.js
+++ b/test/minify-option.test.js
@@ -1699,6 +1699,125 @@ describe("minify option written as an object", () => {
     expect(described.saw.tag).toBe("second");
   });
 
+  /**
+   * @returns {EXPECTED_ANY} a minimizer that records the assets it was handed
+   */
+  function watcher() {
+    /**
+     * @param {{ [file: string]: string }} input input
+     * @param {undefined} sourceMap source map
+     * @param {{ tag?: string }} minimizerOptions the options it was handed
+     * @returns {{ code: string }} the minified result
+     */
+    function minimize(input, sourceMap, minimizerOptions) {
+      const [[name, code]] = Object.entries(input);
+
+      minimize.seen.push(`${name}:${minimizerOptions.tag}`);
+
+      return { code };
+    }
+
+    minimize.supportsWorker = () => false;
+    minimize.seen = [];
+
+    return minimize;
+  }
+
+  /**
+   * @returns {import("webpack").Compiler} a compiler emitting `one.js` and `two.js`
+   */
+  function twoAssets() {
+    return getCompiler({
+      entry: {
+        one: path.resolve(__dirname, "./fixtures/minify/es6.js"),
+        two: path.resolve(__dirname, "./fixtures/minify/es6.js"),
+      },
+    });
+  }
+
+  it("should offer a minimizer only what its own `filter` accepts", async () => {
+    const only = watcher();
+    const compiler = twoAssets();
+
+    new MinimizerPlugin({
+      minify: {
+        implementation: only,
+        options: { tag: "one" },
+        filter: (name) => name === "one.js",
+      },
+    }).apply(compiler);
+
+    const stats = await compile(compiler);
+
+    expect(getErrors(stats)).toEqual([]);
+    expect(only.seen).toEqual(["one.js:one"]);
+  });
+
+  it("should run one minimizer twice, each entry filtered and configured on its own", async () => {
+    const shared = watcher();
+    const compiler = twoAssets();
+
+    // The reason `filter` is a field rather than only a property on the
+    // function: two entries of the same minimizer cannot each carry their own.
+    new MinimizerPlugin({
+      minify: [
+        {
+          implementation: shared,
+          options: { tag: "first" },
+          filter: (name) => name === "one.js",
+        },
+        {
+          implementation: shared,
+          options: { tag: "second" },
+          filter: (name) => name === "two.js",
+        },
+      ],
+    }).apply(compiler);
+
+    const stats = await compile(compiler);
+
+    expect(getErrors(stats)).toEqual([]);
+    expect(shared.seen.sort()).toEqual(["one.js:first", "two.js:second"]);
+  });
+
+  it("should let the `filter` in `minify` answer for one the function carries", async () => {
+    const declining = watcher();
+
+    declining.filter = () => false;
+
+    const compiler = twoAssets();
+
+    new MinimizerPlugin({
+      minify: {
+        implementation: declining,
+        options: { tag: "asked" },
+        filter: (name) => name === "two.js",
+      },
+    }).apply(compiler);
+
+    const stats = await compile(compiler);
+
+    expect(getErrors(stats)).toEqual([]);
+    expect(declining.seen).toEqual(["two.js:asked"]);
+  });
+
+  it("should fall back to the `filter` the function carries", async () => {
+    const own = watcher();
+
+    own.filter = (name) => name === "one.js";
+
+    const compiler = twoAssets();
+
+    new MinimizerPlugin({
+      minify: { implementation: own, options: { tag: "own" } },
+    }).apply(compiler);
+
+    const stats = await compile(compiler);
+
+    expect(getErrors(stats)).toEqual([]);
+    expect(own.seen).toEqual(["one.js:own"]);
+  });
+
   it("should still take them from the deprecated `minimizerOptions`", async () => {
     const first = recorder();
     const compiler = getCompiler();
diff --git a/types/index.d.ts b/types/index.d.ts
index 679938a..6c746ba 100644
--- a/types/index.d.ts
+++ b/types/index.d.ts
@@ -636,6 +636,9 @@ type InternalPluginOptions<T> = BasePluginOptions & {
   minimizer: {
     implementation: MinimizerImplementation<T>;
     options: MinimizerOptions<T>;
+    filters?: (
+      ((name: string, info: AssetInfo) => boolean | undefined) | undefined
+    )[];
   };
   generator?: {
     implementation: MinimizerImplementation<T>;
diff --git a/types/utils.d.ts b/types/utils.d.ts
index 8b32292..65da660 100644
--- a/types/utils.d.ts
+++ b/types/utils.d.ts
@@ -536,9 +536,11 @@ export namespace napiRsImageMinify {
  * Flattens the objects `minify` may hold into the implementation-and-options
  * pair the rest of the plugin reads, so a descriptor's own `options` and the
  * deprecated `minimizerOptions` end up in one place, aligned by position.
+ * `filters` is parallel to `implementation`, and holds only what a descriptor
+ * stated: an entry left undefined falls back to the function's own `filter`.
  * @param {EXPECTED_ANY} minify what `minify` was set to
  * @param {EXPECTED_ANY} declared what `minimizerOptions` says
- * @returns {{ implementation: EXPECTED_ANY, options: EXPECTED_ANY }} the pair
+ * @returns {{ implementation: EXPECTED_ANY, options: EXPECTED_ANY, filters?: (((name: string, info: EXPECTED_ANY) => boolean | undefined) | undefined)[] }} the pair, and the filters descriptors stated
  */
 export function normalizeMinimizers(
   minify: EXPECTED_ANY,
@@ -546,6 +548,9 @@ export function normalizeMinimizers(
 ): {
   implementation: EXPECTED_ANY;
   options: EXPECTED_ANY;
+  filters?: (
+    ((name: string, info: EXPECTED_ANY) => boolean | undefined) | undefined
+  )[];
 };
 /**
  * The version a package reports. Read by walking up from its resolved entry