Cloudinary Reviews & Product Details

I like the ease of signup and very generous free tier.

I regularly run workshops in which participants build a starter web application which allows users to upload images through the browser on mobile phones.

I like the cloudinary dashboard which immidiatelly presents a code example to integrate the upload into a node.js application.

We also use cloudinary as CDN for pdf documents and host all media presented on our corporate website geolytix.com on cloudinary. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Having to install the cloudinary node package is somewhat cumbersome and completely unnecessary. It is fairly easy to sign an url for upload to the cloudinary API directly from the browser. The trickiest bit was to find the example.

The media explorer interface is somewhat long in the tooth. Batch uploads could be smoother.

I'd prefer if the file name would be retained when uploading an image through the media explorer interface into a folder. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The free tier has about 5 years worth of my photos and shows no signs of reaching the cost plans. I use it so often that I actually developed an npm package that will programmatically watch my Screenshots directory, then copy the markdown-formatted image to my clipboard that I use in my static site generated personal blog. It's extremely easy to use, and has integrations for literally any framework out there. The documentation is amazing as well. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Literally not a single thing. Well, actually, the UI post logging in doesn't have a lot of use, and I think most would prefer to be redirected to their media library, rather than what it currently does. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Optimisation and automatic generation of images adapted to each device. A real plus for easily optimising the user experience and the KPIs associated with CoreWeb Vitals. The solution is easy to integrate thanks to the wide range of frameworks supported. It's a tool that knows how to make itself invisible while providing real added value. It's becoming an essential part of our day-to-day business. The support team is very responsive, and I've used it to deal with invoicing issues and have always received a fast, efficient response. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Monitoring of consumption and usage could be improved. The indicators are fairly poor. It would also be good to be able to filter out unhelpful bots that consume credits. Caching is very good, sometimes too good. It's quite difficult to make an image cache expire. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What I like and appreciate most about Cloudinary is the ability to resize images, work on their quality, especially when dealing with the demand for product promotion images. Often we receive images with low proportion and dimension, Cloudinary assists in editing these images, making them much more applicable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I believe that the price of the premium plan is an obstacle, it requires an investment, as the free plan is limited. The understanding of the tool as well, I believe that clearer and more interactive documents and manuals help in understanding how to use the tool at its best performance. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wanted a CDN that I could control by manually adding URLs in the places I wanted to add URLs, and I discovered Cloudinary way back in 2013, and I've been using it ever since. The ease of implementing links has always been the best feature of Cloudinary for me. I actually use Cloudinary daily on several of my WordPress sites.

When I say "ease of implementation," I mean upload image, click overlay on uploaded image to get shareable link and add shareable link to the post or page or share it directly with someone or on social media. I like that I can create folders within folders to keep my media organized and easy to find. I have a lot of media. Whew!

Even though it has a lot of bells and whistles, I mainly use the Asset Management and Access Control.

I find the console well-organized with a dashboard that is easy to navigate, and I like that I can easily convert my images to WebP from JPG, PNG or SVG. Although I only upload videos in MP4 format, Cloudinary can handle other formats, too, like WebM and HLS.

Cloudinaryeasily integrates well with the REST API and Node.js, React, Vue.js, Angular, PHP, Python and Ruby.

Customer support is stellar. Any time I've ever contacted customer support, I get help within hours instead of having to wait days and days to hear back from someone. I always feel a little guilty when asking them for help, because my account is so old that I'm still only paying $10 a month for it! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

In my 12 years of use, I can't think of anything I dislike about Cloudinary. Everything I want it to do, it does. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There’s no better solution for asset management. Being able to control how your assets are not just rendered, but their delivery, is incredibly critical in this modern web world. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really don’t dislike anything, however their interface went for user-friendly over being able to find the controls you need. After years, I still get lost. Docs need better organization. Everything needed is available and intuitive, but cumbersome for seasoned developers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love Cloudinary's on the fly transformations which can be activated by writing only a few words on the image or video url. At my job we rely heavily on it for video and image optimizations. No other vendor comes close when it comes to providing this service. This allows images to load fast and keeps our google site speed scores in great standards. Cloudinary has some great advanced features as well as custom widgets, and advanced video cropping options. Cloudinary offers tons of options and has great documentation available online. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The Cloudinary JS automatically updates. I would rather have control on when it updates as it can break things when using their widget. (This does not impact hosted images and videos that are in Cloudinary.) Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Ease of use and robust cross-platform integration has made Cloudinary an indispensable asset for the online presence of Bass Pro Shops. Moving from Adobe Scene7 to Cloudinary was made easy by expert technical support and good communcation with Cloudinary's engineers. Several teams in Digital Production work daily in Cloudinary to support web initiatives and build product imagery for online and retail purposes. We literally could not function without Cloudinary. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Complaints or dislikes are minimal. Asset searches can be a bit tedious and Cloudinary didn't have an out-of-box solution for a video sitemap. But, those have been minor concerns and Cloudinary has been quick to help us with any issues that have come up. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The free tier is a gneours stepping stone to growth. Scaling into robust image and video solutions is easy. Whether using their dedictaed player for videos or crafting your wown the potential is limitless and performant. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The docuementaion is rich but a little hard to navigate. The pricing structure is a little hard to understand, but I havent met the upper limits of my pro account and I'm well within the limit. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

This was so easy to setup, install, and load the SDK into my software. We were able to scale our application to accept millions of user images very quickly. Integration took just a few hours and the support and documentation on their website is very easy to follow. They have so many features for image transformations that saved us countless hours of cusotm development. We used Cloudinary daily for 8 years. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The only downside is their admin control panel - which they keep changing the UI so it's hard for me to find things. Once I get used to sofware I don't expect such dramatic changes to the control panel. Other than that, no issues - a great product. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.