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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    Cloudinary

    Score9 out of 10
    N/ACloudinary is an image and video management tool enabling users to manage, optimize, and deliver images, videos and other media across every device and channel.

    $49

    per month

    Contentful

    Score7.6 out of 10
    N/AContentful is a cloud based CMS solution that provides the ability to manage content across multiple platforms.The editing interface allows for managing content interactively and provides developers the ability to deliver the content with the programming language and template framework of their choice.

    $0

    Pricing
    CloudinaryContentful
    Editions & Modules
    Media Optimizer - Scale
    $49
    per month
    Programmable Media - Plus
    $99
    per month
    Programmable Media - Advanced
    $249
    per month
    Programmable Media - Enterprise
    Custom Pricing
    Digital Asset Management
    Custom Pricing
    Lite
    $300
    per month
    Community
    Free
    Enterprise
    Custom
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    CloudinaryContentful
    Free Trial
    NoYes
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesYes
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoYes
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeOptional
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    Community Pulse
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    Cloudinary
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    Key User Insights
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    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    CloudinaryContentful
    Reporting & Analytics
    Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Cloudinary and Contentful
    Feature
    Cloudinary
    9.0
    1 Ratings
    24% above category average
    Contentful
    -
    Ratings
    Dashboards9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Standard reports9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Data exportability9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content analytics9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    DAM Features
    Comparison of DAM Features features of Cloudinary and Contentful
    Feature
    Cloudinary
    9.6
    1 Ratings
    16% above category average
    Contentful
    -
    Ratings
    Uploading assets10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Downloading assets10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Categories9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Asset storage10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Asset sharing10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Asset search10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Tagging system9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Content editing9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Metadata9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    User access9.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    DAM Integrations10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    DAM API10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Security
    Comparison of Security features of Cloudinary and Contentful
    Feature
    Cloudinary
    -
    Ratings
    Contentful
    8.5
    10 Ratings
    3% above category average
    Role-based user permissions00 Ratings8.510 Ratings
    Platform & Infrastructure
    Comparison of Platform & Infrastructure features of Cloudinary and Contentful
    Feature
    Cloudinary
    -
    Ratings
    Contentful
    9.5
    12 Ratings
    20% above category average
    API00 Ratings9.311 Ratings
    Internationalization / multi-language00 Ratings9.79 Ratings
    Web Content Creation
    Comparison of Web Content Creation features of Cloudinary and Contentful
    Feature
    Cloudinary
    -
    Ratings
    Contentful
    7.8
    13 Ratings
    1% below category average
    WYSIWYG editor00 Ratings7.34 Ratings
    Code quality / cleanliness00 Ratings9.58 Ratings
    Admin section00 Ratings9.311 Ratings
    Page templates00 Ratings7.64 Ratings
    Library of website themes00 Ratings7.52 Ratings
    Mobile optimization / responsive design00 Ratings4.57 Ratings
    Publishing workflow00 Ratings9.312 Ratings
    Form generator00 Ratings7.01 Ratings
    Web Content Management
    Comparison of Web Content Management features of Cloudinary and Contentful
    Feature
    Cloudinary
    -
    Ratings
    Contentful
    9.4
    12 Ratings
    22% above category average
    Content taxonomy00 Ratings10.011 Ratings
    SEO support00 Ratings10.09 Ratings
    Bulk management00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
    Availability / breadth of extensions00 Ratings9.08 Ratings
    Community / comment management00 Ratings9.01 Ratings
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    Score7.7 out of 10
    Enterprises
    Acquia DAM (Widen)
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    User Ratings
    CloudinaryContentful
    Likelihood to Recommend
    10.0
    (7 ratings)
    8.3
    (13 ratings)
    Usability
    10.0
    (2 ratings)
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    Support Rating
    9.0
    (3 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    CloudinaryContentful
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Cloudinary
    Cloudinary handles pretty much anything you have related to images. From serving them up efficiently to adding transformations on the fly, there's really little this service doesn't do. Their pricing plans allow you to grow into the right levels and their website dashboards are very helpful. I would easily recommend this for all but the simplest of use cases.
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    Contentful
    It's a great all rounder for content projects. It's easy in the basics and powerful in the complex, data heavy scenarios. Extending the platform is straightforward and the SDK gives you everything you need. If you have many many varying content types , it gets expensive and perhaps not the best choice .
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    Pros
    Cloudinary
    • Cloudinary is the best in the market for photo and video transformations.
    • Cloudinary takes customer's requests for special features and implements them very quickly.
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    Contentful
    • Flexible. This CMS can be easily extended and provide access to dynamic content
    • Simple. The WYSWG is very easy to work with and identifying pages and content in the system is fairly easy
    • Clean Interface. The interface is clean and uncluttered keeping focus on the content and not other factors.
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    Cons
    Cloudinary
    • Their API does require URLs that can get quite lengthy and not always easy to parse on sight.
    • Documentation on how transformations work and what they actually do to your image could be clearer (what does force_strip actually mean?).
    • Although a free tier exists and is quite generous, should you need to acquire a premium plan for your needs the pricing at scale can climb quickly.
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    Contentful
    • Contentful uses "references" to allow you to build very modular content. If I have a "slider" content type, I can create a "slide" content type which references a "button" content type, and so forth. This works well, but I occasionally wish there was a better solution for one-off content, like a settings page. Currently, this is done for creating an entire content type called "settings" with a single entry. Not a big deal, but not ideal, either.
    • There are a few quirks with GatsbyJS integration, etc, but these issues are being fixed and improved upon very quickly.
    • A minor gripe, but Contentful does not have a way to organize fields within an entry. Entries with many fields are somewhat tiresome to scroll through.
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    Usability
    Cloudinary
    Cloudinary is very easy to use and offers fast way to upload your images, files and videos to their servers. Then they give you quick ways t implement those files or images onto your website using their API or just a normal URL. They also give you very fast ways to make edits to those files and include them in the url.
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    Contentful
    It is a very easy to use and configure application. I find that it is on the user to manage the content after the models have been created, yet I still do not encounter issues finding or creating new components for our site. It is easy to set up and easy to navigate.
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    Support Rating
    Cloudinary
    We rarely use their support. But when we need it they are always there. They provide great consultation and suggestions to help us manage our costs and resources better. In the last 8 years perhaps we have contacted them 3 or 4 times - which is really really great
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    Contentful
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    Alternatives Considered
    Cloudinary
    Cloudinary seemed to be the most sophisticated with the most documentation and platform support. Other solutions seemed to be a lot harder to implement, however, due to the good documentation and API samples on their GitHub we were able to implement it nicely. Additionally, they have a lot of really well-known brands using them like Wired, Sky News, and eBay which gave us a lot of confidence that this was a good robust solution to use and to help others with
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    Contentful
    Easy to use and much more organized as a single platform versus multi. The layout is clean and easy to read and we don’t have to worry about certain users safe guarding data or content then losing it when they leave the company. It’s a one stop shop for imagery
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    Return on Investment
    Cloudinary
    • Images are essential to our product and using Cloudinary has allowed us to serve them up in a cost-effective and efficient way. Not having to worry about your images frees you up to tackle the real challenges for your product.
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    Contentful
    • Contentful has saved us valuable development time that was previously spent doing deploys for minor content updates.
    • Contentful has helped us maintain consistent documentation, reducing time needed to review for consistency.
    • Can't say we've really experienced any negative ROI impacts from using Contentful, but we've run into some limitations in adding too many content models and the next pricing tier is substantially more expensive.
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