I used the solution just to learn about the platform, and I used it for a couple of personal websites. Mainly, the websites have a lot of images or galleries. What I liked was that previously, when I was making websites, I had to create a lot of images manually to a certain size to be responsive for screens of different sizes. Then I learned about Cloudinary and how it does it all for you. You can upload your assets to Cloudinary, and it automatically detects the user's browser and sets up the image in the right format to optimize the right size, which is amazing.
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Offers good AI features to users
What is our primary use case?
What needs improvement?
When you're starting off, it can be a little bit overwhelming. I am just gonna look at the screen now. Once you log in, you have a management console and many different things, so you won't really know where to go. The onboarding could be made a bit easier. I did Cloudinary's courses. If you use the tool's UI, there are different icons on the left screen, and you won't know where to go first and what is important. The UX can be improved a bit.
When you open the product's management console, it can just be a little bit overwhelming at first until you figure it out. Cloudinary just needs to relook at how to simplify the tool or use the tool's guidance walkthroughs for new users.
The product needs to get noticed, it is important to have someone from Cloudinary on Stack Overflow or Syntax.fm and talk with the developer community.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Cloudinary for six months. I am a customer of the tool.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I have not seen any bugs or breakdowns. The tool's performance when the site loads up is good. Stability-wise, I rate the solution a ten out of ten.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
I am using the tool for myself. In my organization, where I work, they don't use Cloudinary. In our company, we do have a kind of CDN, but it is not the same sort of use as Cloudinary. All our assets are of a fixed size and dimension.
How was the initial setup?
The ease or difficulty of the product's initial setup phase depends on what you are doing. I think it is fairly easy because there are a lot of samples to show you how things work in the tool. For instance, in my case, I use Netlify to deploy sites, and then there is a plug-in there that integrates with your project, so those kinds of plug-ins are great. I think it is easy enough since there are enough samples to get you going.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
I use the free plan, and that is enough for one or two websites. Though I felt that the product price is reasonable, I don't have any price details of any tools to help me make comparisons.
What other advice do I have?
The tool's automation features save time and resources. Previously, images used to have watermarks, especially the ones in Photoshop, and that was very tedious, but Cloudinary is a huge time saver. Cloudinary automatically optimizes the images for the browser, so instead of making a choice yourself for images like JPEG, PNG, AVIF, or WEBP, the client or end user's browser might support them, but Cloudinary takes that decision for you, and it just serves the right image or the best-optimized image, which is sort of safe. You don't have to go through the steps manually to optimize the size of an image.
When integrating with other tools, the hectic part is just really the time or laboriousness of the process. First of all, you've got to have some sort of image editing tool, and then you have got to be comfortable using it, but luckily, I have a background. I have used Photoshop for many years, but I think it is not so easy for many developers since you may be used to working with codes but not necessarily optimizing images unless you are a designer. I think it solves the aforementioned problem very nicely because you are just focusing on using the API.
It is a really good product. It has some features that I struggled to find elsewhere since you automatically crop your image. It can use AI to determine that there is a person in the image, and we can make that person the focus of the image.
I have only played around with the tool's AI part.
I recommend the tool to others.
I rate the tool a nine out of ten.
Easy to set up and used for posting images
What is most valuable?
I use the solution for posting images.
What needs improvement?
The solution should be made more user-friendly because sometimes it's hard to understand.
For how long have I used the solution?
I have been using Cloudinary for two months.
What do I think about the stability of the solution?
I have faced many bugs while using the solution.
What do I think about the scalability of the solution?
Around five people are using the solution in our organization.
How was the initial setup?
The solution’s initial setup is easy.
What's my experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing?
The solution’s pricing is moderate.
What other advice do I have?
The solution is deployed on the cloud in our organization. I didn't have to use my card to use Cloudinary. I recommend Cloudinary to other users because Amazon is a bit expensive for me. It is easy for somebody new to learn to use Cloudinary for the first time.
Overall, I rate the solution eight and a half out of ten.
Well integrated cloud software for ContentStack users
What do you like best about the product?
Easy to upload, not many bugs, and can create folders to seperate cloud filing.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some uplaods will go directly onto website despite it not being posted on live website version, but because document or image was uplaoded to cloudinary, it can be searhced and viewed live from website repository and information can get leaked early before a live page is made ready.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cloudinary strores a large number of files and images, seperated by categories through our multiple website platforms. It is easy to label and has veyr fast uplaod speeds that make publishing live website changes quick and easy.
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What do you like best about the product?
Its a great place for managing, storing and sharing media content like videos and images. Working for the AMS, a large organization, we often have a lot of files to work with. The UI helps me streamline my files and gives me optimized versions of them ready to share with co-workers
What do you dislike about the product?
While I do not bear the costs personally, an individual or small business might not be comfortable using this software due to its high implementation costs
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Delivery of optimised and pixilated videos and images allow me to work effectively and enhance user experience
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What do you like best about the product?
For me, the best part of this was how easy the dashboard set up was. It allows new users as me to navigate without facing any difficulty. Its quite safe and secure in that sense too, which is relieviing to know as a consumer.
What do you dislike about the product?
They dont have a vast variations set. This causes customisation limitations. There are better resources out there in comparison that have more centric customisations to offer
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Helps making/producing high quality videos and statics
Cloudinary is very powerful - but expensive as a CDN for your assets
What do you like best about the product?
Cloudinary is best in class at optimizing images and video in terms of size, compression, format and such. It's super simple manipulating assets via the SDK or the URL.
There is also a useful SDK utility to upload images from a web application.
The support staff is nice.
There is also a useful SDK utility to upload images from a web application.
The support staff is nice.
What do you dislike about the product?
Pricing: Cloudinary's pricing can skyrocket, especially with large files and high traffic. We experienced a bill increase by 10x due to a single large file.
Bundle Packages: Their fixed "bundle" packages lacked flexibility, forcing us to shift to the pricier pay-as-you-go model, which was a considerable drawback.
Bundle Packages: Their fixed "bundle" packages lacked flexibility, forcing us to shift to the pricier pay-as-you-go model, which was a considerable drawback.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Cloudinary effectively addresses various image management challenges, which provides considerable benefits to us. It offers robust tools for image manipulation, thereby streamlining our editing process and eliminating the need for separate image editing software. Its resizing capabilities also stand out, providing flexibility to adjust image dimensions to fit different use-cases without compromising quality. This feature is particularly useful when addressing diverse platform requirements concerning image sizes.
Moreover, Cloudinary's compression feature significantly optimizes our site's loading time by reducing file sizes without notable loss in quality. This translates to a better user experience by ensuring quicker page load times. Finally, its capability to convert images into different formats as per specific needs adds to its versatility, ensuring we can deliver content compatible with various browsers or platforms. Overall, Cloudinary significantly enhances our image management process, contributing to a better user experience and operational efficiency.
Moreover, Cloudinary's compression feature significantly optimizes our site's loading time by reducing file sizes without notable loss in quality. This translates to a better user experience by ensuring quicker page load times. Finally, its capability to convert images into different formats as per specific needs adds to its versatility, ensuring we can deliver content compatible with various browsers or platforms. Overall, Cloudinary significantly enhances our image management process, contributing to a better user experience and operational efficiency.
Great Product - Great Service
What do you like best about the product?
The product does what it says it does and does it with no exceptions. Have been using it for about five years now.
What do you dislike about the product?
Nothing much to write about here. Their DAM takes a bit of time to understand
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
The entire image repository of our art website is with Cloudinary. Very flexible payment terms...
lots of magic in one place
What do you like best about the product?
Many different image transformation services in one tool are conveniently combined with the booming DAM.
What do you dislike about the product?
Some features are confusing or complex and not always easy to figure out without support.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
I was able to set up the processing of the original images of paintings with background removal, cropping, and even creating a video from them on the fly.
Great media management tool with a five-star support service
What do you like best about the product?
- Improvement of performance of our page due to the easy-to-use transformations functionality, multi-CDN, and other different addons
- Clear dashboard that keeps improving
- Statistics and reports that help find issues
- Amazing support service
- Clear dashboard that keeps improving
- Statistics and reports that help find issues
- Amazing support service
What do you dislike about the product?
Cloudinary offers a clear and simple Dashboard that I believe has still a way to go. Cloudinary's API offers so much and I look forward to seeing how the Dashboard and Library keep improving.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
- we are able to control our whole Media Library in one place
- we are able to deliver the media to our users in good quality and the needed format/dimensions with less effort
- we are able to deliver the media to our users in good quality and the needed format/dimensions with less effort
Great service
What do you like best about the product?
It helps optimizing media use, delivering the best possible experience in our devices and reducing latency as much as possible.
Regular reviews with our Account Manager helps in getting the most out of Cloudinary.
Regular reviews with our Account Manager helps in getting the most out of Cloudinary.
What do you dislike about the product?
There is nothing particularly that we dislike, maybe we could ask for better observability and cost reporting.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Media distribution. Latency and good user experience for all our platforms with a really simple API.
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