Cloudinary Dynamic Media Platform and Digital Asset Management Solution

What do you like best about the product?

I like how Cloudinary makes image and video management simple and efficient. The automatic optimization, fast delivery, and straightforward integration help improve website performance while also saving development time.

What do you dislike about the product?

As my usage grows, the pricing can start to feel a bit expensive, and some of the more advanced features take time to fully understand. I also think the dashboard could be more beginner-friendly, with clearer navigation and an overall layout that’s easier to find your way around.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cloudinary solves the challenge of storing, managing, and optimizing images and videos. It automatically compresses media and delivers it in the right format, which helps improve website loading speed, reduces manual work, and supports a better overall user experience.

What do you like best about the product?

The thing I like most about Cloudinary is that it offers a generous free plan with a good amount of storage. I believe it provides around 25 GB of storage on its free tier, which is quite useful for developers. It allows me to upload, store, and retrieve media files directly through my application with minimal effort.

As a developer, I find Cloudinary extremely useful because I often build applications that require media storage, such as images and other files. It also provides SDKs that make integration with applications much easier. Because of its generous free tier, developer-friendly tools, and ease of integration, Cloudinary is my go-to free solution for media storage.

What do you dislike about the product?

The thing I dislike most about Cloudinary is its web interface. Although the services and features it provides are excellent, I feel that its web UI does not offer the same level of experience. In particular, the way it displays folder structures and uploaded media could be improved. Managing and navigating through folders and finding uploaded files could be more intuitive and user-friendly. Overall, I think Cloudinary has great potential, but its web interface still has room for improvement.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

The main problem Cloudinary solves for me is providing reliable cloud storage for the media files used in my web applications. For example, I once built an interview-mocking platform where I used Cloudinary to store session recordings so that users could access them later. Cloudinary provides an SDK that I could directly integrate into my application, making the process of uploading and retrieving recordings through Cloudinary URLs very simple and convenient. It also provides secure media storage, which is important when handling user-generated content. Its free storage allowance makes it an especially useful solution for developers like me.

Another feature I find extremely useful is its image optimization capability. Cloudinary allows me to optimize images directly through URL transformation parameters. For example, I can reduce an image's quality or adjust its dimensions according to the size at which it will be displayed on my website. This reduces the amount of data that needs to be fetched, improves image-loading speed, and can contribute to better website performance and SEO.

Overall, Cloudinary helps me manage media storage, simplify file uploads and retrieval, and optimize images without having to build these functionalities from scratch.

What do you like best about the product?

What I like best about Cloudinary is how effortlessly it handles media uploads, storage, and on-the-fly URL image transformations for my web and mobile chat application. Integrating the API keys with a React frontend and a C#/.NET backend took very little setup, and the Dynamic folders mode makes organizing user-uploaded chat media and profile avatars super clean without complex backend file-handling code. I also really appreciate the main dashboard's real-time Usage Overview—being able to clearly monitor our 30-day image impressions, transformations, bandwidth in megabytes, and total storage against our 25-credit monthly allowance at a single glance makes tracking resource consumption completely transparent. Automatic format optimization like WebP and AVIF delivery keeps media loading fast on mobile browsers too.

What do you dislike about the product?

What can be a bit confusing at first with Cloudinary is understanding how the unified credit system calculates usage across different metrics—since transformations, net storage, and monthly bandwidth all draw from the same 25-credit pool, a sudden spike in high-resolution image transformations or video processing can burn through credits faster than expected if you do not configure strict eager transformation rules upfront. Also, navigating between the classic Media Library settings, Product Environment tabs, and the newer MediaFlows interface can feel slightly cluttered when you just want to quickly adjust upload presets, webhook notifications, or folder security permissions. Finally, the jump in pricing from the base 25-credit tier to the next paid plan is quite steep for smaller independent web applications.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Cloudinary completely eliminates the headache of building and maintaining our own custom media storage, image resizing pipeline, and CDN delivery infrastructure for our real-time web and mobile chat application. Before integrating Cloudinary's API with our C#/.NET backend and React frontend, storing user-uploaded photos and profile avatars directly on our database server slowed down page loads and consumed too much database storage. Now, images are uploaded directly to our Cloudinary product environment into dynamic folders, automatically compressed, converted into lightweight formats, and resized on the fly via simple URL transformation parameters. This keeps our chat interface responsive on mobile networks while letting me easily track our 30-day transformations, image impressions, and megabytes of bandwidth and storage right from the dashboard.

What do you like best about the product?

Image management/CDN for our Adobe Commerce site is relatively seamless once the integration bugs were worked out. Having a pre-built integration available from the marketplace was helpful.

What do you dislike about the product?

Training for design and marketing staff was a slow process. Cloudinary image management from the UI could be more intuitive for end-user staff.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

We use it as the CDN for our product images and digital assets such as banner images for our website.

What do you like best about the product?

I like its powerful and flexible image and video transformation capabilities. The API is incredibly easy to integrate and the ability to dynamically optimize improves user experience.

What do you dislike about the product?

The pricing structure is expensive as your media library and transformation usage grow, and the sheer number of advanced features and settings can make it a bit difficult for beginners.

What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?

Before, I was struggling with slow page load times and inconsistent image quality across different devices. Cloudinary solves this by automating media optimization and delivering assets. This improves our development team hours of manual image editing work.