# Page 3 | Cloudinary Reviews 2026. Verified Reviews, Pros & Cons | Capterra > Page 3 - Is Cloudinary the right Cloud Storage solution for you? Explore 84 verified user reviews from people in industries like yours to make a confident choice. Source: https://www.capterra.com/p/135074/Cloudinary/reviews --- Cloudinary 4.7 (84) [View alternatives](https://www.capterra.com/p/135074/Cloudinary/alternatives/) Provider data verified by our Software Research team, and reviews moderated by our Reviews Verification team. [Learn more](https://www.capterra.com/our-story/) * * * Last updated March 31st, 2026 # Page 3 - Reviews of Cloudinary ## Showing most helpful reviews Showing 51-75 of 84 Reviews Sort by: Most Helpful Rating Company Size Reviewer's Role Length of Use Frequency of Use RB Ryan B. SEO manager Automotive Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Cloudinary review" August 14, 2023 5.0 Very easy to use and pretty self intuitive, would recommend to anyone looking for a digital asset management platform Pros The ability to set 'quality' parameters across images to compress the file size along with the height and width. Essential for SEO image optimisation and page speed (Core Web Vitals) Cons As an SEO setting up quality parameters is relatively simple but for other users who focus more on content or uploading content it can be quite difficult for them verify how big the image file is. Would be good if Cloudinary could surface the image file size on the parameter URL or even file size savings Review Source PP Paul P. CTO Computer Software Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Exactly what we needed" March 11, 2021 5.0 Pros I've been building SaaS products for years and never found a great digital asset management solution that worked for our end clients and wasn't prohibitively expensive. We generally rolled our own solution on top of AWS or something similar. Cloudinary is the the first affordable solution that has both a great API and SDKs as well as a great user interface. And, the available transformations mean that we don't have to do any image processing on our end. This is a great solution for serverless architectures. Cons The pricing, while very reasonable, was a little hard to understand at first. That said, they moved to a "credits" system that allows us the flexibility to use the product our way and get the most value for our credits. Reason for choosing Cloudinary Priced right, easy to integrate into our product, highly available, and very flexible with plenty of transformations and the ability to compose multiple transformations. Review Source Frank R. Co-Founder, CTO and Product Lead Hospitality Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Cloudinary serves up your images admirably with powerful features to spare" January 29, 2019 4.0 Cloudinary provides an indispensable service for anyone managing an image-heavy website. It's also incredibly reliable and works seamlessly once it's been set up. Replicating Cloudinary's features would be a tall order for any development team. Pros Serving up photos can be a real headache when you account for the different sizes you need to serve up to different devices and situations. Cloudinary handles most of that complexity, allowing you to simply set a series of flags that will handle everything from compressions settings to cropping factors. I wouldn't know where to start if I needed to do all of that in-house. Cons Cloudinary has so many features and what seems to be a few different ways to set it up, that I sometimes feel I'm not getting the most out of it. Its pricing plans can also be slightly mismatched depending on your site traffic, especially when you have high storage needs. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Access the image from cloud instead of local. Information Technology and Services Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Access the image from cloud instead of local." May 29, 2020 5.0 Overall best experience.Helps me in my project page speed improvement. Pros Using the cloudinary images and fonts in my web development projects for accessing the image and fonts from server instead of my local static images.As it will load the image and font much faster and also store in the cache.It helps in page speed improvement for the website.Much recommended 😊 Cons Everything is perfect only.Using this regularly and not facing any issues. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Junior Web Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Feature-rich, flexible, and just a joy to work with." March 7, 2018 5.0 Pros You can get exactly the image size, type, and crop you want, purely by modifying the URL. You can organize your assets into folders, and you can store any file type you need. I use it to store PDFs, ZIP files, and, of course, images. Cons The media library admin tool is not the most intuitive to use. The back/forward buttons on my mouse don't go back in state (I have to use the nav links in the UI to navigate back from an image to the folder its contained in, etc). Updating images can also be a pain. I've found that if I delete and re-upload an updated image, I can't click to go into editing it/generating a URL to serve it with unless I open it in a new tab. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Software Engineer Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Amazing software to store images and apply transformations" April 25, 2018 4.0 Pros Cloudinay allowed us to easily store all the images that we have in our application. Currently, all our profile images from our application are stored on Cloudinay. Cons Honestly, we did not find anything that we can not do with this application based on the purposes of the application, that is to store and apply transformations to images. Review Source MG Mayank G. CEO, Founder Animation Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Flexible and dynamic digital asset management platform" December 29, 2020 5.0 Cloudinary is a highly flexible digital asset storage and distribution plaform. Pros Cloudinary provides end-to-end solution from digital asset storage, asset size optimization to image resizing by automizing these processes. Cons For plus plan, 225 GB bandwidth for $89per month is pretty high. Alternatives considered [Wedia](https://www.capterra.com/p/146648/Wedia/)[Filecamp](https://www.capterra.com/p/133218/Filecamp/) Reason for choosing Cloudinary Cloudinary offers better limits for a better price. Switched from [Filecamp](https://www.capterra.com/p/133218/Filecamp/) Cloudinary provides better functions for a better price for this reason we switched from Filecamp to Cloudinary. Review Source Richard R. Software Developer Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Great service, does exactly what it advertises" December 21, 2017 5.0 We need to do image storing, optimizing, resizing & manipulation. Rather than do that ourselves, this service does it all for us. It's saved us a lot of time and money. Pros They have lots of clients for use in any language. Their api is intuitive and easy to use. I've had to contact their customer support a handful of times, they've always been super quick to respond and are able to fix my problem. Their service is top notch - sometimes it's a little slow, but that can be fixed with optimizations. Cons It can be a little overwhelming because it does SO MUCH. And their docs could be laid out a little neater. Review Source GB Graham B. Solution Architect Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "The DAM which grows with your requirements" December 10, 2019 5.0 Our clients often need a centralised DAM which can store large quantities of assets. One client wished to run a competition which required them to upload a video from a website, Cloudinary proved the perfect service to integrate with. The development team quickly integrated with the platform and issues during testing were ironed out with the help of the Cloudinary support team. Based on this experience we have rolled out the platform to several other clients over the past 18 months. Pros \- Great support from the Cloudinary development team - Willingness to enhance the product based on your requirements - Good features which can be deployed when required - Good API and widgets available for developers - Competitive pricing Cons \- Some features can be confusing to activate such as automatically transcoding videos - Annual pricing offer was not clear in sign-up process - Web interface needed some experimentation to learn Reason for choosing Cloudinary Support level, integration and generally a great experience with the Cloudinary team. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Ecommerce Business Analyst Sporting Goods Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Cheaper and Easier " October 3, 2019 5.0 The initial demo we got blew us away and the product has continued to be just as advertised. We save money using Cloudinary and our site performs better. I'd recommend it to anyone considering Cloudinary Pros Cloudinary has allowed us to replace our previous asset management software on our site. It is much cheaper and easier to design with. It also integrates much more seamlessly with our order processing tool than the tool we previously used. Cons We really didn't have any issues. Switching to Cloudinary was a no brianer and the transition has been very painless. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Blogger Publishing Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Great API Image and Video Editor and Store" July 18, 2020 4.0 As a blogger I'm free to store my images and work on them in a place unbound to my website. Pros I use Cloudinary to edit and store images I use for my blog. It has many features, more than I use. It provides me an API code (I use html usually), I copy on my blog. Cloudinary gives me reports, so I can see how my images work. The Free Classic Plan is enough for what I need. If I share it with my friends, I get extras for free. The dashboard is friendly and easy to use. Cons I don't see any cons with it. The Plus and Advances Plans are expensive for my pockets, but I don't need them for my work. Review Source Mitch B. Founder Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Cut our file sizes in half! " April 6, 2018 5.0 We cut our user uploaded file sizes in less than half which means faster load times, less server space, and Cloudinary was able to do this for us without any perceivable loss in quality - it all just happens like magic! Pros There is a LOT you can do with Cloudinary, so if image manipulation is your thing you will be very pleasantly surprised once you look at all options you have to work with your data. The reason we went to Cloudinary was to optimize the images, and without any noticeable loss in quality Cloudinary has helped us reduce the image file sizes by 50-60+%, which is a huge space savings for us. Cons The strength of Cloudinary could also be seen as con with so many options to choose from it was a little daunting to get setup initially. Review Source KC Kiril C. CTO Banking Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Innovation" February 22, 2021 5.0 Pros Cloudinary has stayed the most innovative media-based startup during my time using it. They continue to build features to improve the efficiency of their software in the background that's allowing companies like us to reach new speed benchmarks effortlessly. Cons It can be difficult to asses the history of requests flowing through Cloudinary, but this is isn't a production issue anyone should be worrying about. Review Source MA Mehak A. Software Engineer Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Best to store, transform and provides images." April 30, 2020 5.0 My experience of working with the tool was very great. The web site was an image-heavy site and also it had to be responsive so the image transformation made our task very easy and the UI quality was very good as well. Pros Cloudinary is very easy to configure and use. The ability to resize and transform images via parameters in the URL is very useful. It is an absolute necessity for an image-heavy web site if the performance and speed of the site is of concern. It can be used to store and provide other static resources as well as a PDF of guidelines or a zip download or some documents. Cons Could not find any way the tool lacks or is behind from any competitor in the market. There are many features you can choose from and all works perfectly. Review Source CC Chris C. Consultant Internet Used the software for: 2+ years ### "A good service if you need the full package" December 15, 2021 5.0 Pros Fully featured - manipulations, hosting, uploader Cons Very expensive for what it is, though does have a good free tier for hobby projects Review Source AG Anthony G. Group Director Digital Platforms & Applicatrionoos Hospitality Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Easy and effective way to optimise images on the web" March 1, 2021 5.0 Pros Being able to automatically optimise images, as well as serve the best format Cons Setting up CNAMEs is a manual process which takes time. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Web Developer Non-Profit Organization Management Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Fits well in our Node.js website for file uploading" September 30, 2020 4.0 As a web developer who is more of a hobbyist, it's great to have platforms that integrate easily with web apps and allow for a smooth user experience. Pros I am an amateur with Node.js and Express, and integrating Cloudinary with the web app was fairly easy to set up. I wanted an easy way to upload files to the cloud when a user submits a form, and this works. Cons It would be nice to have some more functionality with files that aren't photos. For example, it's possible to upload pdfs and Word docs, but only photos can be previewed on the Cloudinary website, which makes downloading the files necessary to view them. Review Source JLE Jose Luis E. CEO Restaurants Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Terrible support center" December 4, 2018 3.0 Pros Easy to use, quick implementation. Many transformations Cons The support is terrible. 2 years paying, no emails and help needed. Recently I've had a server error (never happened before) and I contacted the support center... once, twice... no response, just the automatic email. 1 month trying to get some help Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Product Computer Software Used the software for: Less than 6 months ### "Cloudinary Review" July 22, 2023 5.0 Pros We use Cloudinary primarily for Image and Video storage, it helps us with secure image and video storage instead of using other on premise solutions or other solutions that are a little harder to use and implement, its also got an ecosystem of products that extend well with each other which is really nice to have. Cons I think the only con with Cloudinary is vendor lock in is very easy to fall into, because they have an ecosystem of video and image products and api's, it can be quite difficult or impossible to mix it with your other solutions. Alternatives considered [Amazon S3](https://www.capterra.com/p/174285/Amazon-S3/)[imgix](https://www.capterra.com/p/207360/imgix/) Review Source Jerry N. Student Computer Software Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "A GO-TO FOR PICTURES AND VIDEOS" September 29, 2019 5.0 Overall, I have had a blast using Cloudinary. It saved me a ton of time and code when I had to incorporate images inside of my code. Pros very easy to use! Saves, edits, and updates pictures and videos easily. Connecting to different databases is relatively easy once you learn how to do it the first time. Cons DIfficult to understand at first. However, after you learn how to use it, you will be fine and on your way to success. Review Source EM Eugene M. Software Developer Computer Software Used the software for: I used a free trial ### "Digital Assets Management Platform" April 9, 2021 4.0 Pros The ease of use and the amazing functionalities. Cons Cost of scaling can be alittle higher for different markets Reason for choosing Cloudinary The ease of use. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer CEO Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 1-2 years ### "Cloudinary is the standard for " February 10, 2021 5.0 We host a software platform that allows our users to upload images. With Cloudinary's solution, we found a great API solution. Pros We liked how Cloudinary was a stable cloud image SaaS with a good reputation. We needed a solid hosting provider, and Cloudinary was a wise choice. Cons The admin dashboard UI leaves something to be desired, but as long as we are able to navigate to the sections we need, it works! Review Source MW Marissa W. Director of Digital Marketing Leisure, Travel & Tourism Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Affordable Cloud Storage" December 18, 2018 4.0 Pros This is an affordable option for hosting our website assets. It's much more affordable than Amazon Web Services. Cons Files are not compressed so it can affect website loading times. Review Source VR Verified Reviewer Used the software for: 6-12 months ### "Cloudinary an excellent tool for managing images" June 16, 2018 4.0 Pros It is a very simple tool, its official website provides an excellent section that explains in detail how to use Cloudinary in many situations, either for the management of images or videos. It has a relatively low cost, that is, it is quite accessible for all types of users and does not require a very expensive computer. Cons It can be a somewhat complex application for a person who is not familiar with this type of software because its interface is complex and the technical support team takes a little time to respond. Review Source BL Brandon L. Client Success Specialist Marketing and Advertising Used the software for: 2+ years ### "Cloudinary Review" November 17, 2022 5.0 Pros Cloudinary is a great tool to use for sharing assets with groups. It is very easy to use and allows you to share media without any problems. This is a great cloud software. Cons Sometimes the search results are a little funky. I have problems finding older work at times, but it generally just takes me a little longer to find them. Review Source Similar Products Featured