# Cloudinary Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/media/cloudinary/ An image and video platform billed in credits, where one credit stands interchangeably for a thousand transformations, a gigabyte of storage or a gigabyte of delivery. ## Who it suits One bill and one currency for images, video and asset management. A credit spends the same on transformations, storage or delivery, so a month heavy on one is absorbed by spending less on another — the only member here where a shifting workload mix does not need a plan change to match it. Consider something else if You need to forecast. A plan has no fixed capacity in anything: 225 credits is 225 GB delivered or 225,000 transformations and never both, and the pricing page does not say what happens when they run out. It is also the most expensive entry here at $99 a month. ## iScore 66 / 100 (80% interval 62–69), rank 3 of 4 in media — interval overlaps the next rank, so this is an ordering, not a finding. inetGeek's own reading, computed from sourced facts against category peers by disclosed rules. Not a provider claim. Intervals are 80%; a provider with few documented facts is pulled toward the category middle rather than scored on what little is known. Method: https://inetgeek.com/iscore/. Full output with every criterion's basis: https://inetgeek.com/scores.json. Every media peer ranked: https://inetgeek.com/media/cloudinary/alternatives/ - Price: 66 (60–72), weight 50%, 4 of 6 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: egress_overage_price, storage_price - Trust and compliance: 50 (44–56), weight 30%, 0 of 2 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: hipaa_eligible, soc2 - Evidence: 88 (88–88), weight 20%, 4 of 4 criteria scored ## What the documentation says ### Pricing - Free tier: Yes ([source](https://cloudinary.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15) - Kind of free offer: Free tier ([source](https://cloudinary.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15) - What the free plan includes: 25 credits a month, across 3 users and 1 account. At the published rate that is 25,000 transformations, or 25 GB of storage, or 25 GB of delivery — whichever mix you spend it on. ([source](https://cloudinary.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15) - Credit card to start: No ([source](https://cloudinary.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15) - Entry paid plan: $99 a month for Plus, or $89 a month billed yearly. That buys 225 monthly credits across 3 users and 2 accounts. ([source](https://cloudinary.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15) - Pricing model: One meter for four resources. A credit buys 1,000 transformations, or 1 GB of managed storage, or 1 GB of image bandwidth, or 2 GB of video bandwidth — mixed and matched against a single monthly limit. Spending credits on one resource leaves fewer for the rest, so a plan's real capacity depends entirely on which of the four you consume. ([source](https://cloudinary.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15) ### Limits - Storage (entry plan): No separate storage allowance. Storage is drawn from the same credit pool at 1 GB per credit, so 225 credits is up to 225 GB stored or 225,000 transformations, and never both. ([source](https://cloudinary.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15) - Included bandwidth: No separate bandwidth allowance. Delivery is drawn from the credit pool at 1 GB of image bandwidth per credit, or 2 GB of video, so the 225-credit Plus plan carries up to 225 GB of image delivery and nothing else. ([source](https://cloudinary.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15) ### Support - Support on entry paid plan: Expedited support on Plus, the entry paid plan. The free plan gets forums, tickets and email. ([source](https://cloudinary.com/pricing), read 2026-09-15) ## Compared with - [Cloudinary vs imgix](https://inetgeek.com/compare/cloudinary-vs-imgix/) - [Cloudinary vs ImageKit](https://inetgeek.com/compare/cloudinary-vs-imagekit/) - [Cloudinary vs Uploadcare](https://inetgeek.com/compare/cloudinary-vs-uploadcare/)