Alternatives and competitors

Sites like Cloudinary

The 20 closest media management API alternatives to Cloudinary, ranked by what they actually offer, and the 28 technologies behind it.

Looking for an alternative to Cloudinary? The closest matches are Zendesk, monday.com and Optimizely. We match sites by what they actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Vote on each alternative and leave a short note to help the next person choose.

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01 · Entity

About Cloudinary

Cloudinary cloudinary.com

Image and Video Platform for Visual Experiences | Cloudinary

Streamline media management and improve user experience by automatically delivering images and videos, enhanced and optimized for every user.

Wikidata: cloud-based image and video API and media management platform

Top 1K · #862 English 28 technologies Crawled Nov 6, 2026
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Summary by Claude

Cloud service and APIs for uploading, storing, transforming, optimizing and delivering images and videos for websites and apps, plus a digital asset management system for organizing media.

Who it’s for
Web developers, e-commerce and marketing content teams
Business model
Subscriptions (usage-based SaaS)

02 · Embedding space

Competitor map

Each alternative by how close its vector is to Cloudinary’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Lines split each axis at the median. Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.

similarity × popularity

pixeldrainFly.ioWeTransferAlibaba CloudRingCentralLinodeImageShackNew RelicOptimizelymonday.com

03 · Nearest neighbours

Alternatives to Cloudinary

Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Cloudinary, thumbs down if it isn’t.

Only in English
  1. 01
    monday.com Top 10K English

    The AI Workspace for People & Agents | monday.com

    Get more work done with AI agents that work side by side with your people. Execute, manage, and operate together on one AI Workspace to drive business results.

  2. 02
    Optimizely optimizely.com Top 1K English

    Optimizely - AI to create and optimize digital experiences

    Everything marketing and digital teams need to create content fast, test and personalize, and prove business impact.

  3. 03
    New Relic newrelic.com Top 1K English

    AI-powered Observability

    New Relic is an AI-powered observability platform that correlates your telemetry across your entire stack, so you can isolate the root cause and reduce MTTR.

  4. 04
    DigitalOcean digitalocean.com Top 1K English

    AI-Native Cloud | DigitalOcean

    Run AI products in production with a unified stack for agents, inference, and cloud—built for control, performance, and economics at scale.

  5. 05
    ImageShack imageshack.com Top 10K English

    ImageShack: Image Hosting & Photo Sharing

    Image hosting and photo storage for your high-res photos. Upload, organize into albums and share anywhere with ImageShack. Plans from $3.99/month.

  6. 06
    Linode linode.com Top 1K English

    The World's Most Distributed Cloud Computing Platform | Akamai

    Build and deliver low-latency, edge native applications on Akamai Connected Cloud.

  7. 07
    RingCentral ringcentral.com Top 10K English

    RingCentral: The Voice of Your Business

    Power the voice of your business with RingCentral Agentic Voice AI, including AI Receptionist (AIR), AI Virtual Assistant (AVA), & AI Conversation Expert (ACE).

  8. 08
    Alibaba Cloud aliyun.com Top 1K English

    Alibaba Cloud: Reliable Secure Cloud Solutions to Empower Your Global Business

    Alibaba Cloud offers a integrated suite of cloud products and services that are reliable and secure, to help you build cloud infrastructure, data centers in multi regions empower your global business. Try for Free.

  9. 09
    WeTransfer wetransfer.com Top 10K English

    WeTransfer | Skicka stora filer snabbt

    Det enkla, snabba och säkra sättet att skicka filer till hela världen utan ett konto. Dela filer, foton och videor idag helt gratis.

  10. 10
    Fly.io fly.io English

    Fly.io | Deploy apps and agents on fast, hardware-isolated VMs

    Deploy apps, agents, and databases on fast, hardware-isolated VMs. Pay only for the seconds they run. Sign up free.

  11. 11
    pixeldrain pixeldrain.com Top 10K English

    Cloud storage and data transfer services ~ pixeldrain

    Pixeldrain is a file transfer service, you can upload any file and you will be given a shareable link right away. pixeldrain also supports previews for images, videos, audio, PDFs and much more.

  12. 12
    SoundCloud soundcloud.com Top 1K English

    Stream and listen to music online for free with SoundCloud

    Discover and play over 320 million music tracks. Join the world’s largest online community of artists, bands, DJs, and audio creators.

  13. 13
    Cloudflare cloudflare.com Top 100 English

    Cloudflare: Build for the agent era

    Welcome to Cloudflare - Powering the next generation of applications

  14. 14
    YouTube youtube.com Top 100 English

    YouTube

    Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.

  15. 15
    datadoghq.com Top 1K English

    Cloud Monitoring as a Service | Datadog

    See inside any stack, any app, at any scale, anywhere.

  16. 16
    8x8 8x8.com Top 10K English

    Vercel Security Checkpoint

    American provider of Voice over IP products

  17. 17
    Render render.com English

    Render | The cloud for builders

    Deploy and scale any app or agent from your first user to your billionth. Build faster on intuitive cloud infrastructure for the modern web.

  18. 18
    Fastly fastly.com English

    Powering the best of the internet | Fastly

    Fastly's edge cloud platform delivers faster, safer, and more scalable sites and apps to customers. Elevate your edge CDN, video delivery, security, and more.

  19. 19
    Rackspace Technology rackspace.com Top 10K English

    Rackspace Technology | Where Enterprise AI runs and outcomes scale

    As a cloud computing services pioneer, we deliver proven multicloud solutions across your apps, data, and security. Maximize the benefits of modern cloud.

  20. 20
    Infomaniak SA infomaniak.com Top 10K English

    Control your data governance with an independent cloud. Solutions hosted in the heart of Europe, designed to protect your confidentiality.

Ranked by score: the cosine similarity of each site’s vector to cloudinary.com’s, less a small penalty for generic sites that are close to everything. Highlighted technologies are ones Cloudinary uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the ranking.

04 · Fingerprints

Technology

What Cloudinary is built with, and what its closest competitors use, from its homepage’s code and its DNS records.

Built with

CMS
JavaScript libraries
  • GSAP asset https://cloudinary.com/wp-content/themes/cld-2021/assets/2022/js/gsap/gsap.min.js
  • jQuery asset https://cloudinary.com/wp-content/themes/cld-2021/assets/js/jquery-3.4.1.min.js?ver=3.4.1
CSS & UI
  • Bootstrap asset https://cloudinary.com/wp-content/themes/cld-2021/assets/js/bootstrap.min.js?ver=4.3.1
Fonts
Tag managers
Live chat & support
  • Zendesk TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.salesforce.com include:_spf.google.com ip4:23.21.…
Cookie consent
  • OneTrust TXT onetrust-domain-verification=144ac5be800f48f7bab3778cbee9baae
CDN
  • Cloudflare header cf-ray: a562fd4e1c8462eb-HAM
  • jsDelivr asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/algoliasearch@4/dist/algoliasearch.umd.js?ver=1.0.0
  • unpkg asset https://unpkg.com/
Languages & backends
  • PHP implied by WordPress (page source: /wp-content/)
Site search
  • Algolia page source: algoliasearch
Email hosting
Email delivery
  • SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.salesforce.com include:_spf.google.com ip4:23.21.…
DNS hosting
SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
  • Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=dc770567c4b551a01e7bbd3773ab78263937af738…
  • Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=9725Cuj5C2pv0pDl
  • Atlassian TXT atlassian-domain-verification=4qAEhg1IeneaBDd0dmGEojqrJ5bc7tn0xU2Q8wF…
  • Bing Webmaster Tools meta msvalidate.01: D43D2F9F3AF50B5309599A29249A76F3
  • Canva TXT canva-site-verification=Kl0q0ZIanShnW8gR52ytWQ
  • GlobalSign TXT globalsign-domain-verification=FnXWfFjPqReOGiIH8ITAbUasqKxnix6ftvTUzP…
  • Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: mMjpNjz1ps4PeQV_LLB_GiQ4KRNa0pDgTNO9zTKtK9g
  • Miro TXT miro-verification=110e327f5cb83311fd9b95b1ef3b5abd82b800a1
  • OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-52IApjp7nEuw9GlwhJH1cumH
  • Salesforce TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.salesforce.com include:_spf.google.com ip4:23.21.…
  • Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_YnFdk0a_SVOeQsrFkDAw3w

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