Cloudinary vs. Dalet Flex

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cloudinary
Score 8.4 out of 10
N/A
Cloudinary 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
Dalet Flex
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
The Dalet Flex (formerly Ooyala Flex Media Platform) aims to connect and power the entire content supply chain, from the initial pre-production through to distribution. It provides sophisticated workflow management, shared metadata infrastructure, and APIs to connect and orchestrate the entire media supply chain. It enables broadcasters, operators, and media companies to import, manage, deliver, and monetize their content. According to the vendor, Dalet Flex has become the media factory…N/A
Pricing
CloudinaryDalet Flex
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
No answers on this topic
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CloudinaryDalet Flex
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoYes
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
CloudinaryDalet Flex
Reporting & Analytics
Comparison of Reporting & Analytics features of Product A and Product B
Cloudinary
9.0
1 Ratings
27% above category average
Dalet Flex
-
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 Product A and Product B
Cloudinary
9.6
1 Ratings
15% above category average
Dalet Flex
-
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
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CloudinaryDalet Flex
Small Businesses
Adobe Bridge
Adobe Bridge
Score 8.9 out of 10
Adobe Bridge
Adobe Bridge
Score 8.9 out of 10
Medium-sized Companies
MediaValet
MediaValet
Score 9.9 out of 10
MediaValet
MediaValet
Score 9.9 out of 10
Enterprises
MediaValet
MediaValet
Score 9.9 out of 10
MediaValet
MediaValet
Score 9.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
CloudinaryDalet Flex
Likelihood to Recommend
10.0
(7 ratings)
8.0
(2 ratings)
Usability
10.0
(2 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
Support Rating
9.0
(3 ratings)
-
(0 ratings)
User Testimonials
CloudinaryDalet Flex
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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Dalet
Ooyala provides the opportunity to scale and manage multiple services and platforms in the organization with its integration services with internal tools like Slack and multiple other applications. Also, it helps you understand the views, reach, and engagement with the videos that help you define your next campaign strategy. In my experience, Ooyala could be less appropriate for managing URLs and unreliability may make you upload videos more than once.
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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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Dalet
  • It's intuitive and easy to use.
  • Ooyala Now is the only product I have seen to date that shows me real-time usage.
  • I like the people.
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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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Dalet
  • Ooyala's integration with the ad serving platform is not as good in terms of user interface and user experience.
  • The user interface could be improved (making it more like YouTube and Vimeo).
  • The feature that provides scheduling could be improved to be seamless for publishing to Instagram.
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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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Dalet
No answers on this topic
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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Dalet
No answers on this topic
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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Dalet
We have used all the rival products. Ooyala has been our favourite for years, but feel like they have stalled in new product development.
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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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Dalet
  • Ooyala certainly helped improve ROI.
  • It also provides a strong capability for integration with other marketing automation tools for improved digital marketing ROI.
  • Reduction in cost of operations can be easily achieved with integrations with multiple software applications.
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