About
Cloudinary is an image and video API platform for uploading, storing, transforming, optimizing, and delivering media assets through APIs, widgets, and a web UI. The platform includes image and video transformations, video transcoding and adaptive streaming, remote fetch, auto-backup, revision tracking, and CDN delivery.
The free offering includes 3 users on 1 account and 25 monthly credits for the image and video APIs. The separate Assets DAM free plan includes 3 users on 1 account and 25 GB of storage, with AI-powered auto-tagging, video support, and asset variation tools.
- 3 users on 1 account
- 25 monthly credits
- 25 GB DAM storage
- Image and video transformations
- Video transcoding and adaptive streaming
- CDN delivery
- Auto-backup and revision tracking
- AI-powered auto-tagging
Free Tier Value
The pricing page shows a Free plan for Image and Video APIs with 25 monthly credits, 3 users/1 account, and no credit card required, plus a separate Free DAM plan with 25 GB storage and no credit card required. Because the free tier is capped and the page does not provide enough pricing detail to reliably convert 25 credits into a dollar amount, the conservative free_tier_value_usd_per_month is null. Feature parity is estimated at 70% since the free plan includes core upload, transformation, delivery, and support capabilities, while clearly higher-tier features like S3 backup, auto-tagging search, custom domains, and enterprise controls are gated above Free.
What's included in the free tier
- Access to upload widget, API, and search.
- Access to remote fetch, auto-backup, and revision tracking.
- Access to image and video transformations.
- Access to video transcoding and adaptive streaming.
- Access to high-performance delivery through a CDN.
- Access to support via forums, tickets, and email.
- Access to free add-ons.
- Access to MCP servers.
- 3 users per account.
- 25 monthly credits.
See Cloudinary pricing for current limits.
Paid plans
Plus
- users
- 3
- accounts
- 2
- monthly credits
- 225
- Backup to your own S3 bucket
- Auto-tagging based search
- Access to free and paid add-ons
- Expedited support
- Allowlist/Blocklist asset access
- Video Bandwidth Boost 2:1
- Role-based multi-user administration
Advanced
- users
- 5
- accounts
- 3
- monthly credits
- 600
- Custom domain (CNAME) support
- Optional HTTPS SSL Certificate
- Authentication Options
Enterprise
- Security and compliance review
- Multi-CDN and enterprise grade infrastructure
- Enterprise SLAs and support
- Designated customer success manager
- Custom contracts and invoicing
- User management (SSO, provisioning API)
Enterprise
- Streamline content operations
- Faster innovation
- Full-team collaboration
- One-file approach
- Collaboration via UI, widget library, REST API or SDK
- Powered by artificial intelligence
Free
- users
- 3
- accounts
- 1
- monthly credits
- 25
- Upload widget, API, and search
- Remote fetch, auto-backup, and revision tracking
- Image and video transformations
- Video transcoding and adaptive streaming
- High performance delivery through a CDN
- Support via forums, tickets, and email
- Access to free add-ons
- Access to MCP servers
Free
- users
- 3
- accounts
- 1
- storage
- 25 GB
- Easy setup
- Auto tagging
- Video support
- Asset variations
Pricing extracted from Cloudinary's pricing page. Always verify current pricing before committing.
