Cloudinary
About Cloudinary
Cloudinary is an end-to-end image management solution for websites and mobile apps. The app supports image uploads, cloud storage, image manipulations, image optimization for the web, and delivery. Cloudinary offers APIs and flexible admin capabilities to integrate with new and existing web and mobile applications.
Cloudinary lets users upload and store an unlimited number of images privately and securely and includes automatic backup and historical revisions. Users can manipulate images using a wide variety of options such as applying effects, resizing, cropping, face detection, watermarks and more.
Images are served via Akamai's worldwide CDN for fast delivery that is responsive and optimized for any device. Cloudinary acts as digital asset management solution with a media library that uses RESTful APIs and SDKs to automate image management. Users can also access advanced analytics and reports to optimize and understand images performance.
Key benefits of Cloudinary
- Secure upload API, version management, remote upload from public URLs, direct uploading from browser, image transformation on upload, supports private images .
- Multiple image transformations such as format conversion, rounded corners, opacity manipulation, image flipping, image borders, arbitrary image rotation, automatic rotation based on aspect-ratio or EXIF data.
- Multiple image filters & effects such as grayscale, black & white, sepia, brightness, contrast, saturation, hue, oil paint, vignette and pixelate, gradient fade, blur, improve, tilt shift, sharpen, color channels, vibrance, fill light and more.
- Supported image formats: JPG, PNG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, ICO, PDF, EPS, PSD, SVG, WebP.
- PDF to image conversion, merge multiple images, animated GIFs, social network profile picture extraction, & video thumbnail extraction.
- Automatic image optimization such as WebP delivery on supported browsers, dynamic JPG quality control and automatic stripping of image metadata.
- Integration with your development framework, supporting Ruby on Rails, PHP, Node.js, Angular, .Net, Python & Django, jQuery, Java, Scala, Android, iOS and more.
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- Industry: Marketing & Advertising
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 1-5 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Great solution for media files
Reviewed on 2025/01/23
Amazing solution for managing media assets.
Amazing solution for managing media assets.
Pros
Easy for media uploads and transformations.
Cons
Pricing can get high for larger storage needs.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Monthly for 1+ year
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
Great Cloud Storage Provider
Reviewed on 2022/06/25
I primarily use Cloudinary for cloud storage for web applications I build and deploy on Heroku....
I primarily use Cloudinary for cloud storage for web applications I build and deploy on Heroku. Since initially using it, I’ve begun storing many types of files within it.
Pros
Cloudinary’s powerful API allows any developer to easily implement file storage for any kind of internet-connected app quickly. It’s API takes it a step further and allows for transformations when retrieving photo type files.
Cons
The onboarding process could be improved. At first, it wasn’t easy to find the information needed to connect to the API. Once you know where to find it, things are much easier.
- Industry: Information Technology & Services
- Company size: 2–10 Employees
- Used Daily for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10
It's most remarkable features is its ability to help you keep collaborations, edits, and...
Reviewed on 2025/02/21
Cloudinary changed the way I handle the media assets. There, I used it to tweak images used in a...
Cloudinary changed the way I handle the media assets. There, I used it to tweak images used in a marketing campaign, and the CDN guaranteed rapid delivery to anyone on any device. It has now become an essential tool to keep your website interesting and in good shape.
Pros
My favorite thing is Image and Video Optimization. For example, I used it to resize and compress images for my site that resulted in a 30% improvement in page load times. The AI-assisted features (automatic cropping, background removal, etc.) are very helpful.
Cons
Pricing may catch up businesses with big media libraries, and there is a steep learning curve for advanced features such as transformations and API integrations.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: 51–200 Employees
- Used Weekly for 2+ years
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- Likelihood to recommend 6.0 /10
Performs well, but is overpriced
Reviewed on 2024/12/02
It works well, and loads links fast. Our developers like it. It's just not worth it from a cost...
It works well, and loads links fast. Our developers like it. It's just not worth it from a cost perspective though.
Pros
We were locked into a lower legacy rate which made using Cloudinary a really good deal. It was simple and easy to use, and the links would load fairly quickly.
Cons
It really doesn't make sense price wise compared to many other competitors. If we weren't locked into a legacy rate, we would not use Cloudinary. The UI is also quite dated.
- Industry: Computer Software
- Company size: Self Employed
- Used Daily for 6-12 months
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- Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10
Loaded features, but complicated and unorganized documentation
Reviewed on 2022/10/01
Been using it in production for about 1-2 years now, but have since moved on to another image...
Been using it in production for about 1-2 years now, but have since moved on to another image service for ease of use (Imagekit.io).
Pros
Easily able to transform images and generate various versions of it for content creation. A decent form is available for support questions, but turnaround time can be long.
Cons
Cloudinary's documentation is loaded with content, but not well organized and can be difficult to find what you are looking for. It's similar to the disorganization like AWS documentation. The search tool is not easy to use and does not find the relevant information you are searching for. There is no discord server available where one could get instant feedback or help with issues. Not easy to use with modern SSR platforms like Nuxt/NextJS.
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ImageKit.ioReasons for Switching to Cloudinary
I ended up going with Imagekit.io because the imagekit docs were much cleaner and better to use, as well as the user interface. The product features and performance are about the same with Imagekit.io and cheaper, too!Cloudinary FAQs
Below are some frequently asked questions for Cloudinary.Q. What type of pricing plans does Cloudinary offer?
Cloudinary offers the following pricing plans:
- Starting from: US$99.00/month
- Pricing model: Free Version, Subscription
- Free Trial: Available
Q. Who are the typical users of Cloudinary?
Cloudinary has the following typical customers:
Self Employed, 2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500
Q. What languages does Cloudinary support?
Cloudinary supports the following languages:
English
Q. Does Cloudinary support mobile devices?
Cloudinary supports the following devices:
Q. What other apps does Cloudinary integrate with?
We do not have any information about what integrations Cloudinary has
Q. What level of support does Cloudinary offer?
Cloudinary offers the following support options:
Email/Help Desk, FAQs/Forum, Knowledge Base, 24/7 (Live rep), Chat
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