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Cloudinary
AI-native platform for automating image and video management, transformation, and delivery at scale
Cloudinary automates the entire image and video lifecycle, from upload and storage to transformation, optimization, and CDN delivery, powered by AI and advanced
Overview
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Cloudinary is a comprehensive media management platform that helps developers, teams, and enterprises manage, transform, and deliver visual media at scale. The platform covers the entire lifecycle: uploading images and videos to the cloud, automating smart manipulations through APIs and AI, and seamlessly delivering optimized content through a high-performance CDN.
Founded in 2012, Cloudinary serves more than 4 million developers and 13,000 brands across every industry. The platform features AI-powered capabilities including intelligent image cropping, content-aware optimization, and generative editing tools. It offers specialized agents for workflow automation, including workflow, search, taxonomy, and moderation agents that organize and govern media at scale.
Cloudinary's core products include Image API, Video API, a Digital Asset Management system (Cloudinary Assets), workflow automation tools (MediaFlows), and AI-powered moderation. All plans include upload widgets, remote fetch capabilities, image and video transformations, video transcoding, adaptive streaming, and CDN delivery. The platform integrates with major tools including AWS, Shopify, Contentful, Figma, WordPress, and many others.
Capabilities
- 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
Pricing
Pricing model: Freemium
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
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Cloudinary fact sheet
| Community votes | 0 |
|---|---|
| Founded | 2012 |
| Stage | Established |
| Based in | San Jose, United States |
| Website | cloudinary.com |
Cloudinary metrics
Vendor metrics for cloudinary.com: Ahrefs Domain Rating and Majestic link data, with the delta since the last review.
- Domain Rating
- 91
- no change since last check
- Trust Flow
- 54
- no change since last check
- Citation Flow
- 57
- no change since last check
- Referring domains
- 55,408
- no change since last check
- External backlinks
- 52,900,277
- no change since last check
Vendor Domain Rating (Ahrefs) checked 6 Nov 2026, spec changed 25 Oct 2026. Vendor topic: Computers/Organizations (38). Vendor Majestic data checked 25 Oct 2026, spec changed 25 Oct 2026. Link metrics supplied by Majestic. Trust Flow, Citation Flow and Topical Trust Flow are trademarks of Majestic-12 Ltd.
Cloudinary vendor domain
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We read this from the registry's RDAP record on 5 Nov 2026, 07:05 UTC.
- Domain age
- 15 years
- Registered
- Expires
- Registrar
- GoDaddy.com, LLC
- DNSSEC
- Not signed
Cloudinary post-launch report
| Measure | At launch, then latest |
|---|---|
| Domain Rating (Ahrefs) | 91 to 91 no change since launch 25 Oct 2026, then 6 Nov 2026 |
| Trust Flow (Majestic) | 54 first measured 25 Oct 2026 |
| Referring domains (Majestic) | 55,408 first measured 25 Oct 2026 |
Day 11 since launch. Next receipt: day 30, 24 Nov 2026. Many things move these figures, so a change is not proof of cause. Only stored readings are shown.
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Buyer questions
What does Cloudinary do?
Cloudinary is an end-to-end image and video management solution that covers uploads, storage, transformations, optimizations, and delivery through a CDN. It provides APIs and automation capabilities to manipulate media without additional software, integrated with comprehensive administration features.
Can I try Cloudinary before purchasing?
Yes, Cloudinary offers a full-featured free plan with generous usage limits that never expires. Signing up takes only a few seconds and requires no credit card.
What does Cloudinary pricing include?
Cloudinary's pricing covers all end-to-end media costs including management, processing, transformations, effects, manipulations, managed storage, bandwidth, CDN delivery, APIs, SDKs, admin console, support, and availability. It is more cost-effective than in-house management.
Where is uploaded media stored?
Uploaded media is stored on Amazon Web Services (AWS) with multiple backups and multi-region redundancies. Paid plan customers can also back up images to their own S3 bucket, and can use APIs to copy assets to their own storage.
How are video usage limits calculated?
Video storage and bandwidth are counted the same as images. When uploading or manipulating videos, each second of SD video counts as two transformations, while HD video counts as four transformations, regardless of how many times it is viewed.
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