Cloudinary
Image and video API platform with AI-powered transformations for developers.
About
Cloudinary is an end-to-end media management platform for images and videos, used by developers to handle the full visual media lifecycle on websites and mobile apps. It covers uploads, storage, transformations, optimization, and global delivery through a fast CDN, all driven by a URL-based API and SDKs for JavaScript, Python, Node.js, Ruby, PHP, Java, .NET, iOS, and Android.
Its AI capabilities include automatic content-aware cropping, background removal, image and video auto-tagging, generative fill, and AI visual search. Developers resize, crop, convert formats, apply effects, and transcode video on the fly with transformation parameters, while a built-in digital asset management layer adds organization, permissions, and collaboration. A free plan offers 25GB storage plus 25GB bandwidth per month.
What it can do
- URL-based image and video transformations via API
- AI background removal, auto-tagging, smart cropping, generative fill
- Adaptive bitrate video streaming and transcoding
- Built-in digital asset management with AI search
Setup
Sign up free at cloudinary.com and grab the cloud name, API key, and API secret from the dashboard; integrate via SDK or URL-based transformations.
Prerequisites
A Cloudinary account (free tier available).
Use cases
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Trust score — 9/10
Scored 9/10 (verified tier, metrics-v1). Evidence: Verified via vendor site/docs/GitHub and reputable coverage, wave 133; Trending score 86/100 from researcher assessment.
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