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What is Cloudinary?

Cloudinary is the image and video platform that enables the world’s most engaging brands to deliver transformative visual experiences at global scale. More than two million users and 10,000 customers, including Adidas, Bleacher Report, Etsy, Fiverr, Grubhub, Minted, Paul Smith and Rivian, rely on Cloudinary to bring their campaigns, apps and sites to life. Backed by an ecosystem of more than 300 partners, integrations and plug-ins, Cloudinary’s AI-powered image and video solutions offer a single source of truth for brands to manage, transform, optimize, and deliver engaging visual content to anyone, anywhere. As a result, brands across all industries are seeing up to a 203% ROI with benefits including faster time to market, higher user satisfaction and increased engagement and conversions. For more information, visit www.cloudinary.com.

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Cloudinary helps brands manage, transform, optimize, and deliver engaging visual experiences at scale.

How do you position yourself against your competitors?

At Cloudinary, we are the experts in managing image, video, 3D at scale. While many point solutions and vendors can store, manage, and deliver visual assets, we help companies accomplish more by harnessing AI to automate essential tasks and workflows spanning the asset lifecycle and do it at scale with a powerful, flexible, and easy-to-use platform.

Recognized as a leader and visionary, our platform helps companies do more with their assets by combining best-of-breed visual media products, including DAM, image editing APIs, and a Video Platform.

What’s different about Cloudinary? It’s the combination of power and ease-of-use that enable you to achieve measurable results that matter.


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Cloudinary is a cloud-based media management platform that specializes in image and video optimization, transformation, and delivery. It enables businesses to efficiently manage their visual content by providing tools for uploading, storing, manipulating, and serving images and videos across various devices and platforms. With features such as automatic format selection, responsive resizing, and content delivery network (CDN) integration, Cloudinary enhances performance and user experience for websites and applications. The platform is widely used by developers, marketers, and content creators to streamline media workflows and improve digital asset management.


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What do you like best about Cloudinary?

Cloudinary is best in class at optimizing images and video in terms of size, compression, format and such. It's super simple manipulating assets via the SDK or the URL.

There is also a useful SDK utility to upload images from a web application.

The support staff is nice. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudinary?

Pricing: Cloudinary's pricing can skyrocket, especially with large files and high traffic. We experienced a bill increase by 10x due to a single large file.

Bundle Packages: Their fixed "bundle" packages lacked flexibility, forcing us to shift to the pricier pay-as-you-go model, which was a considerable drawback. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloudinary solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cloudinary effectively addresses various image management challenges, which provides considerable benefits to us. It offers robust tools for image manipulation, thereby streamlining our editing process and eliminating the need for separate image editing software. Its resizing capabilities also stand out, providing flexibility to adjust image dimensions to fit different use-cases without compromising quality. This feature is particularly useful when addressing diverse platform requirements concerning image sizes.

Moreover, Cloudinary's compression feature significantly optimizes our site's loading time by reducing file sizes without notable loss in quality. This translates to a better user experience by ensuring quicker page load times. Finally, its capability to convert images into different formats as per specific needs adds to its versatility, ensuring we can deliver content compatible with various browsers or platforms. Overall, Cloudinary significantly enhances our image management process, contributing to a better user experience and operational efficiency. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Luca Stefano S.
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Small-Business(50 or fewer emp.)
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What do you like best about Cloudinary?

Simple usage, you just change urls and you are done. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudinary?

Terrible support, completely useless. Even tho I had filled in my company data, they sent me an invoice with the wrong VAT ID and I could not add that to expenses. After more than 3 months, I'm still waiting for them to fix it and issue it correctly.

In addition to that, beware that you will not be able to downgrade to a cheaper plan earlier than 30 days after the event have passed if you had a spike of traffic. This means you get to pay for two months on the bigger plan. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloudinary solving and how is that benefiting you?

Hey, *it was.

Nothing you cannot solve with any other alternative, to be frank. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Upadesh S.
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What do you like best about Cloudinary?

I've been working in the digital marketing field for over a year now and I can confidently say that Cloudinary is the best CDN to implement on your site. Their features are constantly being updated, they offer tools to optimize video delivery and images, and they have a great customer service team. I would highly recommend Cloudinary to anyone looking for a good CDN. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudinary?

It is quite expansive if you want to use your own domain name to serve through the CDN. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloudinary solving and how is that benefiting you?

I am serving the images, videos and script files using the Cloudinary CDN and my website performance has increased and the site loads faster than not using it. It also helped me increase the score of the website in gtmetrix and google insight. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cloudinary?

The product does what it says it does and does it with no exceptions. Have been using it for about five years now. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudinary?

Nothing much to write about here. Their DAM takes a bit of time to understand Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloudinary solving and how is that benefiting you?

The entire image repository of our art website is with Cloudinary. Very flexible payment terms... Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Daniele R.
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What do you like best about Cloudinary?

Cloudinary is a content delivery network that help you devlier your media file in an insanely super advanced way (es. sizing, etc.), but very easy to setup Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudinary?

I completely dislike the fact that you cannot restrict the view of your media only to authenticated user. They say that the security is granted by the fact that the media URLs are generated randomically and are impossible to guess by an attacker. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloudinary solving and how is that benefiting you?

In general Cloudinary solve the problem to delivery media in an efficient way. In my case, on the contrary, it's the only way for my app developed with thunkable, to extract the photo taken from the user and convert it in base 64. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cloudinary?

Cloudinary is a platform we use to store and serve our image assets to different channels. We are satisfied with Cloudinary's API as it lets us easily store, manipulate, and manage images. We can increase operational efficiency by automating our image asset pipeline process. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudinary?

We are happy with our implementation of Cloudinary and our customer support team. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloudinary solving and how is that benefiting you?

Streamline our image asset pipeline and allow for maximum flexibility storing and manipulating individual image assets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Egor B.
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What do you like best about Cloudinary?

Many different image transformation services in one tool are conveniently combined with the booming DAM. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudinary?

Some features are confusing or complex and not always easy to figure out without support. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloudinary solving and how is that benefiting you?

I was able to set up the processing of the original images of paintings with background removal, cropping, and even creating a video from them on the fly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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What do you like best about Cloudinary?

The immense number of asset transformation possibilities make our lives much easier when setting up new projects - no more local hosting of assets is needed.

The customer service & relationship is one of the best we have with service providers - keep up the excellent work!

Cloudinary offers excellent documentation for developers - you can find everything you need perfectly documented. If something is missing, the support comes back in no time with very beneficial answers/solution approaches!

Even the possibility to influence the product's roadmap is given - fantastic! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudinary?

There is nothing to dislike when it comes to Cloudinary - keep up the excellent work you are doing.

We are thrilled with the product and the capabilities provided by Cloudinary! Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloudinary solving and how is that benefiting you?

Dynamic asset hosting for multiple B2C / B2B shops all over the world (which improved the loading speed of these sites enormously), e-mail send-outs, asset transformation for internal customers, personalization of assets in e-mails Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Simone F.
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What do you like best about Cloudinary?

Cloudinary is an excellent service for Images & Video runtime processing to distribute your content via CDN. The Digital Asset Management (DAM) system is built with an intuitive interface that allows every user, with different technical proficiency, to manage and share assets with stakeholders.

Cloudinary has a solid technical background, and developers build it for developers. It provides many features to process assets on demand when consumed on your site, adding on top a reliable CDN to distribute around the globe your content optimized and transformed as you want and need.

Cloudinary is always improving and listening to your needs and very often you have the chance to talk directly with Product Owners and responsible members to suggest changes and have a open exchange on features and usability.

Last but not least, Cloudinary offers an excellent support service, and with the Platinium Support responses to your questions, doubts and technical issues will come in minutes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudinary?

It takes some time to master all the technical features provided by Cloudinary, and they are not always so intuitive to set up and manage. It is definitely recommended to have a technical responsible member in your team to take care of the system because business requirements need to be "translated" in implementation details on the Cloudinary platform.

SDKs and APIs can be improved and in some cases the usage is cumbersome or not intuitive, which means that your development can be slowed down since you need to ask for support to understand the use of some features fully.

DAM feaures can be improved but the company is on it. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cloudinary:

Always involve technical members because it has a steep learning curve in some cases and there're many details to be taken in consideration when setting up your accounts. Ask often support to understand better how to optimize your content delivery. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloudinary solving and how is that benefiting you?

We have ultimately handed over the media asset management to a SaaS system, and our developers barely worry about displaying and optimizing media content in our platform. We also simplified the architecture of our ecosystem unifying in a single system DAM and distribution of media. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

JA
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Enterprise(> 1000 emp.)
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What do you like best about Cloudinary?

Great product! We like photo edit features from URL. It takes some time to learn how to use it, but it has excellent documentation and helpful learning resources.

Great customer support! If We have any questions, the answer comes quickly, and it's always precise - up to a point - with deep thought on the best solution for our issue. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Cloudinary?

WEB GUI for named transformations is not as simple to use, and we can't edit change transformation by editing its URL. Instead, we must use GUI, and sometimes it's not so handy, but it does not affect the day-to-day work. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Recommendations to others considering Cloudinary:

Excellent service! Fast, reliable, and secure image and video CDN with automatic transformations capabilities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Cloudinary solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use Cloudinary to store and deliver images to multiple systems, including WEB pages and mobile apps. Doing this with Cloudinary allows us to transform photos based on device size and create compositions of numerous images - we use this feature a lot. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.