Cloudinary is the end-to-end solution for all your image and video needs. With Cloudinary you will:
- Eliminate all media related R&D work
- Improve your end user's experience
- Leverage cutting-edge image capabilities
- Speed up time to market of new products
- Reduce your IT costs by up to 90%
- Grow your product to any scale
Image upload
Upload any image type (JPG, PNG, Animated GIF, PSD, WebP, JPEG-XR, SVG and others). Upload videos, PDF and Office documents, and any other file type.
Use Cloudinary's image API to upload files from your back-end application. Support uploading directly from your visitors' browsers, iOS or Android mobile apps without any server-side component. Alternatively, fetch images in realtime using URLs from around the web.
Upload anywhere from a few images to millions of images a day. Cloudinary takes care of your upload scale with zero hassle and no headaches.
Cloudinary offers secure upload API, interactive manual uploads and customizable upload widgets you can embed in your website or mobile app.
Cloud storage
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Your files are stored safely in the cloud
With Cloudinary your images are stored in a highly available, redundant, cloud-based persistent storage, with revision tracking and automatic backup.
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Store as many files as you need
Cloudinary allows you to store anywhere from a few files to millions of files, from a few bytes to many Terabytes and more.
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Store the files wherever you need it
Leverage Cloudinary's internal storage mechanisms or your own AWS S3 bucket for storage. Alternatively, you can keep utilizing your existing storage solution and have your files manipulated on-the-fly from their original location.
Powerful administration
Gain important insights on your images with usage reports, in-depth analytics and actionable advice. Setup and tweak every aspect of your image pipeline's behavior. Assign role-based access to all your team members.
Use Cloudinary's online web interface to interactively manage your media library wherever you are. Sift through your images with powerful browsing and advanced searching. Moderate your images manually or automatically. Tag your images or organize them in folders and much more.
Use RESTful APIs to simplify and speed-up your move to the cloud. Automate all your image management and house-keeping. Cloudinary's SDKs offer streamlined integration for your specific development framework.
Image manipulations and transformations
Upload a full-sized image once and let Cloudinary generate different sized image versions from the original, on-the-fly or in advance. Manipulate your images dynamically to perfectly fit your graphic design across every device and resolution.
Images are processed ultra fast in the cloud, with no local software installation or ongoing maintenance required.
Vast array of image manipulation capabilities:
- Resize and Crop
- Optimized JPEG Custom Crop
- Face Thumbnail
- Rotated Circular Thumbnail
- Effects and Zoom
- Image Overlay Watermark
- Optimized WebP
- Text Overlay, Border, Shadow
- Scale
- Fill
- Fit
- Pad
- Crop
- Limit
- Percentage Based
- Custom Coordinates
- Face Cropping
- Face Thumbnail
- Face Blurring
- Face Overlays
- Multiple Faces Cropping
- Multiple Faces Thumbnail
- Pixelate Faces
- Image Rotation
- Arbitrary Rotation
- Automatic Rotation
- Vertical Flip
- Horizontal Flip
- Rounded Corners
- Ellipses
- Circles
- Sepia
- Increase Saturation
- Decrease Saturation
- Grayscale
- Black & White
- Change Hue
- Change Brightness
- Change Contrast
- Blur
- Sharpen
- Vibrance
- Oil Paint
- Pixelate
- Vignette
- Auto Color
- Auto Brightness
- Image Overlay
- Image Underlay
- Watermarks
- Text Overlay
- Text Styles
- Custom shape cropping
- Thumbnail Creation
- Page Extraction
- Thumbnail Manipulation
- Word Document Thumbnail
- Sprite PNG
- Normalize Dimensions
- Manipulte Sprite Members
- JPG 90% Quality
- JPG 50% Quality
- Semi-transparent PNG
- GIF
- WebP
- JPEG-XR
- Facebook Profile, Face Thumbnail, Sepia Effect, Rotation, Watermark
- Video Thumbnail, Face Cropping, Rounded Corners, Decrease Saturation
- Uploaded Images, Multiple Overlays, Gravity Based Square Filling, Custom Coordinates
- Facebook Pictures, Multiple Overlays, Face Detection, Rotation, Flipping, Hue Changes
Fast delivery
Cloudinary uses best of breed lossy and lossless image size and image quality optimizations, including automatic WebP and JPEG-XR support as well as JPG, PNG, SVG and animated GIF optimization algorithms.
Have your images optimized based on viewing device, retina display and responsive design. Improve your website loading speed even further with domain sharding, smart image caching and metadata stripping.
Cloudinary's dynamic URL-based image delivery greatly simplify the integration with your website and mobile app.
Customize your delivery URLs, leveraging your own domain and a flexible SEO-friendly naming convention.
All your images are delivered lightning fast from a world-wide Content Delivery Network (CDN).
Cloudinary leverages multiple CDNs, including Akamai, Amazon CloudFront and Fastly, with thousands of world-wide edges.
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End-to-end Video Management
Upload and manage your videos with Cloudinary at any scale using rich APIs or via an interactive online web interface.
Cloudinary's APIs allow you to upload videos from your back-end application or directly from the browser or mobile app. All popular video formats are supported, including: MP4, WebM, FLV, MOV, OGV, 3GP, 3G2, WMV, MPEG, MKV and AVI.
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Cloudinary's dynamic delivery URLs allow you to modify your videos on-the-fly in real-time.
Cloudinary will automatically convert your videos to HTML5 and mobile friendly formats for optimized view on all web browsers and mobile devices.
Transcode your videos to perfectly fit your graphics design and product requirements, with a rich set of video transformation capabilities. Utilize Cloudinary’s video scaling, cropping, trimming, arbitrary rotation, thumbnail generation, conversion from and to animated GIF and much more.
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Cloudinary applies industry best practices to optimize your videos with minimal impact on visual quality. Optimize your videos further with fine-grained control over codecs, bit-rate, and more.
Your videos are served streaming from a leading global content delivery network (CDN).
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Introducing cloud-based service for video upload, real-time manipulation and optimized viewing
Responsive and Retina support
Upload a single high resolution image and let Cloudinary automatically transform it to perfectly fit any HiDPI device and Retina display, at any pixel density (DPR).
Powerful support for responsive design and responsive images using smart, on-the-fly resizing and cropping based on your visitor specific web layout.
Learn more about responsive imagesDigital Asset Management (DAM)
Manage your media library interactively using Cloudinary's powerful online web interface or via comprehensive APIs. Take control of your images' entire lifecycle from initial upload, through processing, to embedding on your website.
- Browse and search your media files.
- Organize your photos usings folders and tags.
- Interactively manipulate your images.
- Manage multiple users and roles.
- Streamlined photo moderation, manual or automatic.
Fetch images on-the-fly from any location
Simple integration
Integration with Cloudinary is as simple as a single line of code using our vast array of open source client libraries.
<%= cl_image_tag("group.jpg", :width => 365, :height => 133, :crop => :fill) %><?php echo cl_image_tag("group.jpg", array("width" => 365, "height" => 133, "crop" => "fill")); ?>
cloudinary.image("group.jpg", { width: 365, height: 133, crop: "fill" })
cloudinary.CloudinaryImage("group.jpg").image(width=365, height=133, crop="fill")
$.cloudinary.image("group.jpg", { width: 365, height: 133, crop: "fill" })
<cl-image public-id="group.jpg" width="365" height="133" crop="fill"/>
cloudinary.url().transformation( new Transformation().width(365).height(133).crop("fill")).imageTag("group.jpg");
cloudinary.Api.UrlImgUp.Transform( new Transformation().Width(365).Height(133).Crop("fill")). BuildImageTag("group.jpg");
cloudinary.url format "jpg" transformation Transformation().w_(100).h_(130).c_("fill") imageTag "group"
[cloudinary url:@"group.jpg" options:@{@"transformation": [[CLTransformation transformation] setParams: @{@"width": @365, @"height": @133, @"crop": @"fill"}]}];
cloudinary.url().transformation( new Transformation().width(365).height(133).crop("fill")).generate("group.jpg");
Single click integration with your favorite PaaS provider.
Third Party Add-ons
Enhance your images even further with powerful functionality offered by our vision and image processing partners. The add-ons are simple to use and fully integrated into Cloudinary's image management pipeline.
Security & Privacy
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Secure and safe cloud-based solution
Cloudinary's high-end cloud-based infrastructure is accessible via secure and authenticated HTTPS APIs, with flexible access key provisioning. All your files are automatically backed-up to a secondary protected location.
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Complete image access control
Upload public and private images accessible via HTTP and HTTPS URLs. Restrict access to images based on specific image transformations, image types and referral sites. Authenticate image access with signed URLs.
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Management console access control
Control access to your online management console with multiple user roles and permissions, leveraging two-factor authentication.