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Your traffic

Choose a workload. We’ll estimate traffic and requests for you.

Estimated monthly costs

USD per month, before tax. Load balancing and unpriced extras are excluded.

What’s included?

Estimates cover cacheable content. Origin and optional services are added only when you enter their rates. Plans differ in features and coverage; check their terms before buying.

Advanced settings
Split traffic between regions

Percentages must total 100%. The same split applies to bytes and requests. CloudFront charges by serving edge location; this is an approximation. Shared free allowances are allocated proportionally.

Origin and optional services

Paid tiers start with this workload; estimates do not include other account traffic. Enter your own effective rates after origin allowances. Reads use request misses; egress uses byte fill. Functions assume one invocation per viewer request. Zero leaves an extra out of the estimate; it does not mean your origin is free.

Compare a quote you received

This is your quote, not a published provider price. Use an effective rate for the selected traffic mix; tiers, included usage and commitments need to be reflected in your inputs. Sharing a scenario includes your quote details.

Presets are starting assumptions, not measured traffic. Video assumes one rendition and segment GETs; playlists, retries and extra audio tracks add requests. Fill is a byte ratio, not a request cache-hit rate. GB = 1 billion bytes; Google bills GiB = 1,073,741,824 bytes; CloudFront estimates use binary GB as a billing assumption.

Overview

Cloudinary manages media from upload through transformation and delivery. It suits teams that need image variants or video processing as well as a CDN.

A delivery-only price comparison misses much of the bill: your media library and transformation workload consume the same credit pool as bandwidth.

Network

Cloudinary uses multiple delivery networks, including Akamai, Fastly and Cloudflare. Check cache behavior and custom-domain requirements with the delivery configuration you plan to use. Test both a new transformation and a cached image from your important audience regions.

Features

FeatureSupported
Web application firewallNot listed
Bot protectionNot listed
DDoS protectionNot listed
Rate limitingNot listed
HTTP/3 (QUIC)Not listed
TLS 1.3Not listed
Tiered cachingNot listed
Origin shieldNot listed
Instant cache purgeNot listed
Serve stale while refreshingNot listed
Serve stale on origin errorsNot listed
Image optimization✓ Supported
On-demand video✓ Supported
Live videoNot listed
Digital rights managementNot listed
HLS / DASH packaging◐ Partial
WebSocketsNot listed
Signed URLs◐ Partial
Edge computeNot listed
Edge functionsNot listed
Key-value storageNot listed
Configuration API✓ Supported
Real-time logsNot listed
Log exportNot listed
Terraform providerNot listed

✓ Supported · Partial: limited or separate-product support · ✗ Not supported · Not listed: unconfirmed. Some features need a separate product or plan.

  • Images: URL-based resizing, cropping, compression and format selection.
  • Video: encoding, optimization and adaptive streaming workflows.
  • Media management: uploads, remote fetching, search and managed storage.

Pricing

Monthly-billed plans include:

  • Free: 25 monthly credits.
  • Plus: $99/month.
  • Advanced: $249/month.

Annual commitments have lower monthly equivalents. A credit covers 1,000 transformations, 1 GB of managed storage or 1 GB of image bandwidth. Paid plans use a different video-bandwidth allowance. Add consumption across those activities, then compare the bundle and overage terms. Custom domains and access options depend on the plan.

Developer tools

Upload through APIs or widgets and generate transformation URLs with official SDKs. Test responsive sizes and format selection with real images before estimating transformed delivery volume. Check custom-domain and signed-delivery requirements for restricted media.

When it fits

  • Product catalogues and user-uploaded media with many variants.
  • Teams wanting storage, processing and delivery managed together.

Before you choose

  • Estimate transformations and stored media as well as traffic.
  • Compare custom-domain and access features at the required plan level.
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