# Uploadcare Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/media/uploadcare/ A file uploader and media CDN billed on operations, where every upload, request and transformation counts as one action against a monthly total. ## Who it suits Upload-heavy products where the work is done TO files rather than served from them. An operation is every upload, API request, transformation, video job and document conversion, so the meter follows the pipeline — and traffic and storage are billed on their own meters rather than drawn from it. Consider something else if You serve a lot and process little. Three meters run at once and Pro is $66 a month for 5,000 operations, 25 GB of traffic and 10 GB of storage, with $1.60 per further thousand operations. The free plan is personal use only, and SOC 2 and HIPAA appear only on Enterprise. ## iScore 68 / 100 (80% interval 64–71), rank 1 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/uploadcare/alternatives/ - Price: 66 (60–72), weight 50%, 5 of 6 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: free_card_required - Trust and compliance: 50 (44–56), weight 30%, 2 of 2 criteria scored - Evidence: 100 (100–100), weight 20%, 4 of 4 criteria scored ## What the documentation says ### Pricing - Free tier: Yes ([source](https://uploadcare.com/pricing/), read 2026-09-15) - Kind of free offer: Free tier ([source](https://uploadcare.com/pricing/), read 2026-09-15) - What the free plan includes: 1,000 operations, 5 GB of traffic and 1 GB of storage a month, with a 500 MB file ceiling — and marked personal use only, which is a licence restriction the other three do not place on their free plans. ([source](https://uploadcare.com/pricing/), read 2026-09-15) - Entry paid plan: $66 a month for Pro, which includes 5,000 operations, 25 GB of traffic and 10 GB of storage. ([source](https://uploadcare.com/pricing/), read 2026-09-15) - Pricing model: Operations, plus traffic and storage on their own meters. An operation is any action taken on a file — uploading, an API request, an image transformation, video processing, document conversion — so the count tracks how much you do to the media rather than how much of it you serve. ([source](https://uploadcare.com/pricing/), read 2026-09-15) - Egress over allowance: $0.35 per GB of traffic above the 25 GB on Pro, and $0.25 above the 125 GB on Business. ([source](https://uploadcare.com/pricing/), read 2026-09-15) - When you exceed a cap: Every meter continues past its allowance at a published per-unit rate rather than stopping — operations, traffic and storage alike. ([source](https://uploadcare.com/pricing/), read 2026-09-15) ### Limits - Storage (entry plan): 10 GB included with Pro, then billed per GB. Storage is its own meter here rather than a draw on a shared pool. ([source](https://uploadcare.com/pricing/), read 2026-09-15) - Included bandwidth: 25 GB of traffic a month on Pro, and 125 GB on Business. ([source](https://uploadcare.com/pricing/), read 2026-09-15) ### Storage - Storage price: $0.35 per GB above the 10 GB included on Pro, and $0.25 above the 50 GB on Business. ([source](https://uploadcare.com/pricing/), read 2026-09-15) - Operations price: $1.60 per 1,000 operations above the 5,000 included on Pro, falling to $0.80 per 1,000 on Business and as low as $0.10 on Enterprise. ([source](https://uploadcare.com/pricing/), read 2026-09-15) ### Compliance - SOC 2: SOC 2 is listed among the Enterprise plan's options, alongside HIPAA. Nothing is claimed for Free, Pro or Business. ([source](https://uploadcare.com/pricing/), read 2026-09-15) - HIPAA: HIPAA is listed among the Enterprise plan's options. Nothing is claimed for the plans below it. ([source](https://uploadcare.com/pricing/), read 2026-09-15) ## Compared with - [Uploadcare vs Cloudinary](https://inetgeek.com/compare/cloudinary-vs-uploadcare/) - [Uploadcare vs imgix](https://inetgeek.com/compare/imgix-vs-uploadcare/) - [Uploadcare vs ImageKit](https://inetgeek.com/compare/imagekit-vs-uploadcare/)