Cloudinary vs deCDN

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Cloudinary compared with deCDN
Detail	Cloudinary	deCDN
What it does	AI-native platform for automating image and video management, transformation, and delivery at scale	Decentralized content delivery network where anyone can serve bytes and clients pay per megabyte in USDC
Stage	Established	Not given
Founded	2012	Not given
Based in	US	Not given
Pricing model	Freemium	Paid
Pricing	Free plan: 25 monthly credits, 3 users, 1 account. Plus plan: $99/month (monthly) or $89/month (yearly), 225 monthly credits, 3 users, 2 accounts. Advanced plan: $249/month (monthly) or $224/month (yearly), 600 monthly credits, 5 users, 3 accounts. Enterprise and DAM plans: Custom pricing. One credi	Per-megabyte settlement in USDC; target network price $0.01/GB; node operators set their own per-megabyte rates signed into each quote
Key features	AI-powered image and video transformations Smart image cropping with AI Video transcoding and adaptive streaming AI-powered moderation agent Global CDN delivery Multi-user role-based administration Auto-tagging based search S3 bucket backup integration	BLAKE3 chunk verification for every byte Multi-node parallel downloads for files over 64 MiB Automatic resumption on connection drop Per-node price negotiation in USDC Price ceiling enforcement on client side No wallet or crypto required for users SDK support for macOS, Linux, Windows On-chain CapacityBond registry for node discovery Public on-chain content blacklist governance Node bond enforcement for quote integrity
What makes it different	AI-native since founding with agents and GenAI throughout the entire visual media lifecycle Supports unlimited uploads, transformations, and deliveries at any scale Trusted by 4 million developers and 13,000 leading brands globally One unified platform covering entire visual media lifecycle from ingest to delivery	Open market with nodes competing on every request instead of vendor lock-in Pay only for verified bytes that actually arrive Supply scales with demand instead of fixed provisioning No exposure of origin storage to the network
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	91 no change since last check	10 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	54	2
Citation Flow (Majestic)	57	15
Referring domains (Majestic)	55408	4

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