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Overview

What is Cloudinary?

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.

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Cloudinary Review

Rating: 10 out of 10
May 9, 2024
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Cloudinary is used as our primary CDN for seamless and fluid delivery of content to our customers. We were in the market for a new CDN and the suite of features that Cloudinar...
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Verified user
Engineer
Cloudinary2 years of experience

Awesome Awesome product - keep it going. YOu make image management a breeze.

Rating: 10 out of 10
August 10, 2021
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Cloudinary takes away a lot of the muck that we need to manage images and creatives. Simplotel is like a Shopify for hotels and our hotel customers upload a large number of im...
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Verified user
C-Level Executive
Cloudinary7 years of experience

Principal Engineer

Rating: 9 out of 10
December 20, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
We are using Cloudinary for our Timeline feature. People post photos and videos, and we transform them to generate different variants for different device groups with better c...
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Manjeet Singh
Professional - Engineering
Engineering
Hike Messenger
Cloudinary3 years of experience

Your one-stop shop for everything images.

Rating: 9 out of 10
July 23, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Cloudinary is being used by the product team to serve up all of the images for our website. On occasions, we also use it as a more general repository for files that need to be...
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Frank Ramirez
C-Level Executive - Engineering
Co-Founder, CTO and Product Lead
SixPlus
Cloudinary3 years of experience

Cloudinary - Possibly the last digital resource manager you will ever need

Rating: 9 out of 10
January 18, 2019
IncentivizedVetted ReviewVerified User
Most high-quality stock images have dense resolutions which translate into large file sizes, which when used on a website can mean a major drag on performance as your users ha...
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Joel Tanzi
Professional - Engineering
Software Engineer
Lockpath, Inc.
Cloudinary2 years of experience
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Pricing

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Media Optimizer - Scale

$49

Cloud
per month

Programmable Media - Plus

$99

Cloud
per month

Programmable Media - Advanced

$249

Cloud
per month

Entry-level set up fee?

  • No setup fee
For the latest information on pricing, visithttps://cloudinary.com/pricing

Offerings

  • Free Trial
  • Free/Freemium Version
  • Premium Consulting/Integration Services

Starting price (does not include set up fee)

  • $49 per month
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Product Demos

Better Assets with Cloudinary & GraphQL (with Domitrius Clark) — Learn With Jason

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AI-Driven Video Delivery Innovations from Cloudinary - MX Matters Episode #1

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Edit Airtable Images in Bulk with Cloudinary

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Automatic Image Optimization on Netlify with the Cloudinary Build Plugin

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Build a Gatsby Transformer Plugin for Cloudinary — Learn With Jason

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Webcam Photo Filters & Effects in React with Cloudinary

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Product Details

What is Cloudinary?

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What is Cloudinary?

Cloudinary Technical Details

Deployment TypesSoftware as a Service (SaaS), Cloud, or Web-Based
Operating SystemsUnspecified
Mobile ApplicationNo

Frequently Asked Questions

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.

Cloudinary starts at $49.

Reviewers rate Support Rating highest, with a score of 9.

The most common users of Cloudinary are from Mid-sized Companies (51-1,000 employees).
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Reviews From Top Reviewers

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Cloudinary the the CDN for Servers Speeds...

Rating: 10 out of 10
Incentivized
August 10, 2021
Verified User
Executive in Corporate
Entertainment Company, 1-10 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cloudinary
4 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We currently use Cloudinary to host image files on both our website and Help website. We love using the service and being able to utilize their API and make changes to images on the fly without having to go back and edit the image again. Also the ability overwrite an image if we need to change one is another great feature. We also host some CSS and video files there which is great that they do more than just images.
Pros
  • A Great CDN
  • Image Hosting
  • File Hosting
Cons
  • Better Navigation in Admin
  • Documentation
  • Integration
Likelihood to Recommend
Cloudinary works best if you are looking for a place to host some files, images and videos for your website to leverage the load of you web server.

Cloudinary is not for people who have heavy video files and need to host thousands of images or files and have them all linked to their website.
Return on Investment
  • Better Load Speed
  • Less Files On Server
  • Better Google PageSpeed
Support Rating
8
Cloudinary has great support and will reply to your requests in a fast amount of time, however their documentation if you need advanced help is very complicated for novice users. Their Documentation seems to be better suited for advanced users and not everyone will understand API usage without more explanation.
Usability
10
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.

Principal Engineer

Rating: 9 out of 10
Incentivized
December 20, 2019
MS
Manjeet Singh
Engineering
Hike Messenger (Internet, 51-200 employees)
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cloudinary
3 years of experience
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Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We are using Cloudinary for our Timeline feature. People post photos and videos, and we transform them to generate different variants for different device groups with better compression. It is used by the Engineering team in the server-side generation of photo/video variant generations. It helps us in optimizing the size of photos and making the user experience better. Network bandwidth gets reduced with it.
Pros
  • 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.
Cons
  • Pricing is a bit high, and this is the area where they need to adjust.
  • They are great in scaling but they may need to do bit more for infinite scaling.
Likelihood to Recommend
It is best for photo/video transformation. We did use it for adaptive streaming of videos with the generation of m3u8 variant files. Async transformation with web hooks works great for larger videos.
Cloudinary Feature Ratings
DAM Features
N/A
N/A
Reporting & Analytics
N/A
N/A
Return on Investment
  • It is best for generating optimal photo/video variants.
  • Network bandwidth decreased, and UX became much better.
Alternatives Considered
We evaluated Bitmovin, Fastly, Anvato, etc. There is no one solution that gives both photo/video transformation with realtime availability.
Support Rating
9
Team responds in very reasonable time. I would say, support is good overall.
Other Software Used

Simple Image Optimization

Rating: 8 out of 10
Incentivized
February 20, 2018
Verified User
Analyst in Engineering
Internet Company, 51-200 employees
Vetted Review
Verified User
Cloudinary
3 years of experience
Use Cases and Deployment Scope
We use cloudinary on our own sites to speed up the delivery of images and video and automatically optimize them for end users browsers. We really like how it can optimize for quality as well as format to reduce the amount of development work we needed to do on the platform which meant that our dev team had less to do.
Pros
  • Automatically optimizes the images format to support user's browser - e.g. Chrome users get WebP formats
  • Automatically optimizes for quality so you can set up a flag to automatically optimize the quality
  • Cool additional things like face detection, or integrating with other APIs are simple - like adding flags to the URL
Cons
  • Currently, they don't have an officially supported Drupal module -so it's quite painful to implement.
  • If you have a site that has a lot of visitors then it's possible to get quite large bills out of the blue if you get a massive spike e.g. black Friday.
  • The UI for the backend and documentation could do with a lot of improvements.
Likelihood to Recommend
If you have an out of the box solution where you can easily manipulate the URLs to add in cloudinary - then it works like a dream. They have built-in support for platforms like Magento and wordpress which means that it can be a case of just downloading and installing. For other platforms like drupal it can be a massive headache to implement and get working fast. There is also SEO that needs to be considered when adopting Cloudinary and a poor implementation can cost your Organic visits!
Return on Investment
  • Faster speed on our website
  • Larger images as a result of us designing for this faster speed
  • Site looks better!
Alternatives Considered
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.
Other Software Used
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