Cloudinary Reviews & Product Details

Cloudinary is very easy to use and I use it very regularly. I use Cloudinary to store images, which are then uploaded to my website via a URL.

I use Cloudinary to compress images, which helps to reduce the file size and takes up less space on our website, which saves us more money by reducing the website bandwidth usage. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I have not seen any downsides to using Cloudinary. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I’ve been using Cloudinary for some time now, and what I really appreciate is how much it simplifies my workflow. I can upload an image and Cloudinary automatically handles all the complex tasks—optimisation, resizing, format conversion, and more—without any need for complicated setup or extra effort on my part.

The URL-based transformations are a standout feature for me. Adjusting quality, aspect ratios, dimensions, and formats is as easy as adding a few parameters, which is incredibly convenient. This not only saves me time but also keeps my workflow organised, eliminating the need to create or maintain cumbersome image pipelines myself.

In terms of performance, Cloudinary is very reliable. Their CDN delivers images quickly, and I’ve noticed that pages on our website load faster and feel lighter because of the optimised images they provide.

All in all, Cloudinary makes managing images effortless, allowing me to concentrate on designing and building rather than dealing with asset management. It’s efficient, dependable, and truly valuable for anyone who works with visuals, even occasionally. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of my main frustrations with Cloudinary is how disorganized things can become when several people share the same account. When designers, developers, and content editors are all uploading and modifying assets, the situation can quickly spiral out of control. Naming conventions are often ignored, folders become cluttered, duplicate files accumulate, and it’s all too easy for someone to accidentally overwrite something important.

Cloudinary doesn’t provide many safeguards to prevent these issues, either. If your team lacks strong organization, the platform simply mirrors that disorder, turning the asset library into a bit of a jungle. With strict processes, it’s possible to keep things under control, but without them, managing assets can be quite a headache. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cloudinary makes it incredibly easy to manage and deliver digital assets at scale. I especially appreciate how intuitive the interface is and how quickly I can upload, organize, and transform images. The automatic image optimization and built-in CDN significantly improve performance without requiring extra development time. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While Cloudinary is powerful, the pricing can get expensive quickly, especially for small teams or startups. Some advanced features require a learning curve, and documentation, although extensive, can be overwhelming for beginners. The UI could also benefit from a modern refresh. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cloudinary is not just a CDN, but the de facto standard platform for images and video on the web. It is easy to use for developers, marketers and creatives and has dramatically reduced complications with delivering the right media to the right device at the right time. As a small business, media management will never be a profit center for us, so ease of implementation and integration are key for us and Cloudinary delivers. Additionally, new features and functionality only serve to increase our ROI as our adoption continues. The value for our teams and our business is undeniable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cost and sticker shock is definitely a concern, but overall value outweighs cost completely for us. A portion of the AI features are not relevant to our business. Mass update of image paths is not a trivial, so initial setup is critical. Stock Wordpress integration leaves something to be desired. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cloudinary offers dynamic image manipulation and a robust API, supported by comprehensive public documentation. Its user-friendly interface makes it accessible to everyone in the company, and it serves as a single source of truth for all digital assets. I also appreciate Cloudinary’s commitment to keeping up with the evolving technology landscape. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I wouldn't say I dislike it, but I do wish it were more affordable for us, given that the base product includes plenty of features that are certainly valuable but that I haven't gotten to take advantage of due to my specific business needs. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I love that Cloudinary has a generous starter tier that helped our small greenfield startup get off the ground. It's great how it supports a wide range of SDKs for any language or platform, which is a huge time-saver for us as a Ruby-on-Rails platform, especially since Cloudinary supports Ruby and Rails out of the box. The UI is friendly and makes it super easy to manage and tag our uploaded assets, so we can confidently delete outdated variants without worrying about impacting production assets. Cloudinary's integration with ActiveStorage is a seamless drop-in solution, which made it extremely easy to set up by just installing it and copying their sample configuration. These features make Cloudinary incredibly valuable to our workflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The pricing does ramp up quickly. Once you start hitting thresholds, it gets comparatively expensive versus other solutions. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The digital DAM makes it easy for us to share assets across our company. The API is very robust and feature-rich, allowing us to carry out all of the dev work that's needed.

The developer support and customer support team are very knowledgable and quick to respond to any issues we have had.

The SDKs allow us to quickly and easy implement uploads into our existing system with ease. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There is no S3-compliant APIs that allow us to modify existing credentials, we had to completely refresh our integrations which involved an element of dev time.

We have experienced a few bugs with misleading errors from the edge and CDN, which have involved a few developer support team members. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The ease of use, its very easy to create a transformation thats used often (named transformation) and apply it to all assets, then I can just tweak the transformation and I dont have to manually change each asset.

Documentation is clear so its easy to implement and integrate with my current React app Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Only the price and pricing model, the storage would never go down (makes sense) but for it to be bundled on the same credits as the bandwidth and transformations it makes it more difficult to manage every month.

Customer Support answers quick whenever there are issues, however for the same issue I could be in contact with more than 5 different agents, and sometimes they dont have the same response, so I just give up.

I still dont know exactly how their caching works, since in theory once an asset and its transformation are cached on cloudflare, any request should just pick from the cache and not count towards my spending, however the daily usage is still up and down, meaning there are still calls going to cloudinary and not through the cache. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really appreciate how Cloudinary allows me to store images on the cloud with ease and retrieve them without needing to compress or edit them beforehand. The ability to store images using their API and then request them simply by calling the URL with appropriate parameters is incredibly convenient. Cloudinary handles transformations and other tasks in the background, which saves me a lot of time and effort. Furthermore, setting up Cloudinary was quite straightforward, and its integration through API calls is greatly simplified, especially with the assistance of AI. Overall, I enjoy the service a lot because it performs exceptionally well, even though I have mentioned some minor concerns. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I find the UI of Cloudinary to be somewhat complicated and feel that it could be more modern and user-friendly. Additionally, I feel that the pricing can become quite high once a certain threshold is reached. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I greatly appreciate Cloudinary for its ability to easily sort and share all our visual photos and videos, which is crucial for our campaigns that involve many different media. The sorting feature using metadata is particularly remarkable, it allows me to quickly find what I need and saves us valuable time. Moreover, the simplicity of using Cloudinary, especially during the initial setup, was very pleasant. The installation was done easily and quickly, which facilitated adoption by our team. Overall, these elements make Cloudinary very valuable for our daily activities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When I browse through all the visuals, they sometimes take a while to display. Improving this aspect would be a plus. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.