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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

Uploadcare handles file uploads, storage, processing and delivery for web and mobile applications. It began in 2011 and joined Tiugo Technologies in January 2024.

Its media workflow combines upload widgets, APIs, image transformations and on-demand video. Compare the whole file pipeline rather than only the cost of cached bytes.

Network

The service uses a multi-vendor CDN with an additional media-processing layer. Its node count does not provide a cache-city list for a map.

Projects created from September 4, 2025 use a personal delivery subdomain on ucarecd.net; older accounts can retain ucarecdn.com. Custom CNAME and bring-your-own-CDN options depend on your plan and configuration.

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 purge◐ Partial
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: resize, crop, compress and transform through delivery URL operations.
  • Video: uploaded files can become adaptive HLS streams with H.264/H.265 renditions. This requires processing; assets held in an external AWS S3 bucket do not support this adaptive workflow.
  • Access control: signed delivery URLs require a custom CNAME; for HLS, authorization must cover playlists and segments.

Current CDN settings describe normally near-instant invalidation after deletion, with possible delays; an older API reference says deletion does not invalidate cache. Confirm the applicable behavior before relying on purge timing. The dashboard records API access. Ask separately about raw viewer-request logs if your monitoring needs them. Ask separately how live ingest, application protection and edge code will be supplied if your project needs them.

Pricing

Monthly Pro is $79 and Business $199; annual billing shows $66/$166 monthly equivalents.

  • Pro: 5,000 operations, 25 GB delivery and 10 GB storage; overages $1.60/1,000 operations and $0.35/GB for delivery or storage.
  • Business: 50,000 operations, 125 GB delivery and 50 GB storage; overages $0.80/1,000 operations and $0.25/GB for delivery or storage.
  • Free: personal use only, with 1,000 operations, 5 GB delivery and 1 GB storage.

Operations include file/API actions and processing; they cannot be estimated by equating every viewer GET with one operation. Video codec/resolution and custom-domain options can add costs. The calculator accepts your effective delivery quote; add subscription, processing and storage separately.

Developer tools

Upload, REST and URL APIs have downloadable OpenAPI specifications. Official clients and uploader integrations cover several programming languages and web/mobile frameworks; webhooks notify file events. A CLI and migration tooling are also documented.

Keep secret API credentials on the backend. Test upload validation, transformations, delivery domains and signed URLs as separate steps. Ask about Terraform resources and raw viewer-log delivery if your workflow requires them.

When it fits

  • User-generated content with uploads, validation and image variants.
  • Web/mobile apps needing a managed file workflow.
  • On-demand HLS media with explicitly budgeted processing and storage.

Before you choose

  • Include subscription, operations, transfer and storage in the budget.
  • Dashboard API logs are different from raw viewer-request streams.
  • If you need live ingest, DRM or edge code, ask how those requirements will be met before choosing the service.
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