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
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
03 · Nearest neighbours
Alternatives to Cloudinary
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Cloudinary, thumbs down if it isn’t.
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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.
Very close cos 0.912 - 02
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.
Very close cos 0.906 - 03
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.
Very close cos 0.907 - 04
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.
Very close cos 0.903 - 05
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.
Very close cos 0.905 - 06
The World's Most Distributed Cloud Computing Platform | Akamai
Build and deliver low-latency, edge native applications on Akamai Connected Cloud.
- Google Search Console
- Google Workspace
- OneTrust
- Adobe Experience Manager
- Adobe Experience Platform Tags
- Akamai
Very close cos 0.902 - 07
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).
Very close cos 0.903 - 08
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.
Very close cos 0.900 - 09
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.
Very close cos 0.900 - 10
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.
Very close cos 0.896 - 11
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.
Very close cos 0.898 - 12
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.
Very close cos 0.899 - 13
Cloudflare: Build for the agent era
Welcome to Cloudflare - Powering the next generation of applications
Very close cos 0.896 - 14
YouTube
Enjoy the videos and music you love, upload original content, and share it all with friends, family, and the world on YouTube.
Very close cos 0.898 - 15
Cloud Monitoring as a Service | Datadog
See inside any stack, any app, at any scale, anywhere.
Very close cos 0.895 - 16
Vercel Security Checkpoint
American provider of Voice over IP products
Very close cos 0.896 - 17
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.
Close cos 0.893 - 18
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.
Close cos 0.894 - 19
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.
Close cos 0.893 - 20
Control your data governance with an independent cloud. Solutions hosted in the heart of Europe, designed to protect your confidentiality.
Very close cos 0.896
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
- WordPress page source: /wp-content/
- JavaScript libraries
- CSS & UI
- Bootstrap asset https://cloudinary.com/wp-content/themes/cld-2021/assets/js/bootstrap.min.js?ver=4.3.1
- Fonts
- Adobe Fonts asset https://use.typekit.net/
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- 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
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Email delivery
- SendGrid TXT v=spf1 include:_spf.salesforce.com include:_spf.google.com ip4:23.21.…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-1002.awsdns-61.net
- 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
Stack changes
No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Cloudinary adds or drops shows up here.
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 20/20
- Google Workspace 15/20
- Apple Business 13/20
- Microsoft 365 · not on cloudinary.com 12/20
- Atlassian 11/20
- DocuSign · not on cloudinary.com 11/20
- Stripe · not on cloudinary.com 11/20
- OpenAI 9/20
- Adobe 8/20
- OneTrust 8/20
- GlobalSign 8/20
- Google Tag Manager 7/20
- Miro 7/20
- Meta Business Suite · not on cloudinary.com 7/20
- Cloudflare 6/20
- React · not on cloudinary.com 6/20