# Cloudinary vs Imgix for image optimization: which do small engineering teams find easier to maintain day to day?

<p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">For a small engineering team, Cloudinary vs imgix really comes down to how much you'll end up maintaining yourself. From the reviews, I'd say Cloudinary is the easier one to live with day to day.</p><ul>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/cloudinary/reviews"><strong>Cloudinary</strong></a>: Reviewers point to near-instant setup, broad SDKs, and URL-based transforms that let you resize and reformat without writing much code. The recurring complaint isn't upkeep, it's that the credit-based pricing is hard to forecast.</li>
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<a class="a a--md" elv="true" href="https://www.g2.com/products/imgix/reviews"><strong>imgix</strong></a>: There's much less recent feedback to go on, and the one detailed account described the standard plugin not being flexible enough, so they built and maintained their own integration, which is exactly the overhead a small team wants to avoid.</li>
</ul><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">So for a team that doesn't want to babysit it, I'd lean Cloudinary and just model the transformation costs up front. imgix can be powerful, but be ready to own more of the integration yourself.</p><p class="elv-tracking-normal elv-text-default elv-font-figtree elv-text-base elv-leading-base elv-font-normal" elv="true">If you've run both, which needed less hands-on upkeep once it was live?</p>

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I compared these two for a piece a while back and the upkeep answer was consistent: Cloudinary is the one you can hand to a team that doesn&#39;t want to think about it, imgix rewards the team that enjoys owning their image pipeline. The hidden upkeep in both is cost monitoring. Transformations multiply quietly, so whoever owns the bill should set up a usage alert in week one.

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