Cloudinary
Who runs Cloudinary, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest media management API alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
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- Closest alternative
- ImageKit.io
Measured from Cloudinary’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Cloudinary01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Cloudinary
Cloudinary cloudinary.com
Streamline media management and improve user experience by automatically delivering images and videos, enhanced and optimized for every user.
Wikidata: cloud-based image and video API and media management platform
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Cloudinary tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
tracker that follows visitors
1 of the 20 alternatives below have fewer, 11 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- OneTrust
- US company
- 3 tools
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Cloudinary
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Cloudinary, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
Image & Video API, Agentic DAM, Creative Automation: Complete Media Lifecycle Platform | ImageKit.io
Transform and deliver optimized images and videos in real time, manage assets with an agentic DAM that also connects via MCP, and automate on-brand creatives at scale — all in one platform with enterprise-grade capabilities at a predictable price.
Very close - 02
Uploadcare: File Upload, Processing & Delivery Platform
Uploadcare handles file uploading, processing, and delivery for web and mobile apps: a drop-in uploader, image CDN, video delivery, and a URL API.
Very close - 03
Combining Images, Data and Intelligence to Transform Your Business
Redefine how you optimize, edit, and deliver your visual media with tools built for speed, performance, and AI transformation.
Very close - 04
Video API for developers | Mux
Mux helps teams ship high-performance and cost-effective video in minutes, not months. Build better video into anything from websites to platforms to AI workflows.
Very close - 05
Image CDN: Image Optimization, Processing & Hosting • Sirv
Sirv helps you and your team manage, transform, optimize and deliver digital assets for faster websites and apps. Increase your conversions with Sirv today.
Very close - 06
Bynder - The most intuitive enterprise DAM platform
Create, manage, and distribute content at scale with the world's most interconnected digital asset management platform.
Very close - 07
Replicate - Run AI with an API
Run open-source machine learning models with a cloud API
Very close - 08
Image CDN: Resize, Compress and Accelerate • Cloudimage
Cloudimage converts to the best format, optimizes the size quality ratio and delivers your web images to your customers through our rocket fast image CDN network worldwide.
Close - 09
Brandfolder - The Most Usable Digital Asset Management Platform
Manage, distribute, and analyze your digital assets in one place with Brandfolder, the world's most powerfully simple brand asset management software.
Very close - 10
Canto – The leader in digital asset management solutions
Canto is the leading digital asset management solution for organizations worldwide. Canto’s DAM helps you organize, find, and share digital assets with ease.
Very close - 11
The World's Most Distributed Cloud Computing Platform | Akamai
Build and deliver low-latency, edge native applications on Akamai Connected Cloud.
Very close - 12
Amagi | AI-Powered Media Industry Cloud Platform
Amagi, the Media Industry Cloud, simplifies broadcast and streaming operations with AI-powered automation — maximizing reach, engagement, and revenue.
Very close - 13
Gcore | Cloud, Edge, Security, and AI. Unified to the core.
Launch faster, stay protected, and scale on your terms with Gcore. Run cloud, edge, security, and AI on EU-owned infrastructure built for real traffic.
Very close - 14
Smartling | End-to-end localization & translation services for global growth
Smartling connects your brand with customers around the globe. Translate, automate & manage your content across platforms with real-time analytics.
Very close - 15
Rackspace Technology | Where Enterprise AI runs and outcomes scale
As a cloud computing services pioneer, we deliver proven multicloud solutions across your apps, data, and security. Maximize the benefits of modern cloud.
Very close - 16
AI-Native Cloud | DigitalOcean
Run AI products in production with a unified stack for agents, inference, and cloud—built for control, performance, and economics at scale.
Very close - 17
Create and Multistream Live Video | Restream
Restream is a simple live video platform that empowers you to create beautiful videos and multistream them to your favorite channels.
Very close - 18
Box | AI-Powered Content Management, Workflow & Collaboration
Intelligent Content Management makes it easy to automate workflows, collaborate internally and externally, and protect your sensitive data, all on one platform.
Very close - 19
SMS Messaging, Voice, Email, Video & Verification APIs | Sinch
Unlock meaningful conversations across the customer journey with programmable SMS, voice, email, video, & verification APIs!
Very close - 20
The World's #1 Product Management Software
Aha! is the world's #1 product management software. See why 1,000,000+ product builders trust us to build lovable products and be happy doing it.
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Cloudinary’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Cloudinary uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Cloudinary adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 28 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 23 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Cloudinary’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- CMS
- WordPress page source: /wp-content/
- JavaScript libraries
- CSS & UI
- Bootstrap asset https://cloudinary.com/wp-content/themes/cld-2021/assets/js/bootstrap.min.js?ver=4.3.1
- Fonts
- Adobe Fonts asset https://use.typekit.net/
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Live chat & support
- Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.salesforce.com include:_spf.google.com ip4:23.21.…
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust TXT onetrust-domain-verification=144ac5be800f48f7bab3778cbee9baae
- CDN
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a562fd4e1c8462eb-HAM
- jsDelivr asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/algoliasearch@4/dist/algoliasearch.umd.js?ver=1.0.0
- unpkg asset https://unpkg.com/
- Languages & backends
- PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
- Site search
- Algolia page source: algoliasearch
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.salesforce.com include:_spf.google.com ip4:23.21.…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1002.awsdns-61.net
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=dc770567c4b551a01e7bbd3773ab78263937af738…
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=9725Cuj5C2pv0pDl
- Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=4qAEhg1IeneaBDd0dmGEojqrJ5bc7tn0xU2Q8wF…
- Bing Webmaster Tools meta msvalidate.01: D43D2F9F3AF50B5309599A29249A76F3
- Canva TXT canva-site-verification=Kl0q0ZIanShnW8gR52ytWQ
- GlobalSign TXT globalsign-domain-verification=FnXWfFjPqReOGiIH8ITAbUasqKxnix6ftvTUzP…
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: mMjpNjz1ps4PeQV_LLB_GiQ4KRNa0pDgTNO9zTKtK9g
- Miro TXT miro-verification=110e327f5cb83311fd9b95b1ef3b5abd82b800a1
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-52IApjp7nEuw9GlwhJH1cumH
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.salesforce.com include:_spf.google.com ip4:23.21.…
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_YnFdk0a_SVOeQsrFkDAw3w
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Tag Manager 14/20
- Google Workspace 14/20
- Atlassian 13/20
- Apple Business 12/20
- Amazon Route 53 12/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on cloudinary.com 11/20
- OpenAI 9/20
- Cloudflare 9/20
- HubSpot · not on cloudinary.com 8/20
- DocuSign · not on cloudinary.com 8/20
- Next.js · not on cloudinary.com 6/20
- React · not on cloudinary.com 6/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on cloudinary.com 5/20
- Google Fonts 5/20
- Zendesk 5/20