Choose Cloudinary ImageKit today
instead of migrating a year later!
Spend over 40% less with ImageKit. Get a world-class media processing and management product that ALSO works with your own storage.
Why choose ImageKit over Cloudinary?
Already using Cloudinary and worried about the migration effort?
We have you covered. ImageKit’s features have helped companies migrate in days, vs. months with zero downtime.
- No need to change Cloudinary parameters. ImageKit’s URL rewriter understands Cloudinary transformations, URL versioning and more.
- ImageKit works with your Cloudinary Backup Storage or any other cloud storage you migrated to.
- For Enterprise accounts managed migration available with Upload APIs and Storage Migration CLI to seamlessly switch to ImageKit’s Media LIbrary.
Migration case study
Swiggy enhanced performance, personalized UX, and saved costs across platforms.
Billions of media assets now get delivered via ImageKit without changing existing URLs.
Pay for only what you use
Forget credits or storage limits, ImageKit plans are made in such a way that you pay for only what you use
| Costing comparison | ImageKit.io | Cloudinary |
|---|---|---|
| Billing parameters | A few billing parameters, i.e., optimized output bandwidth and a one-time charge of video processing units, make this more suitable for a simple media delivery and optimization use case. Only pay for storage if you actually upload assets to ImageKit's Media Library. | A complex credit-based system with numerous billing parameters, i.e., output bandwidth, generated assets storage, number of transformation requests, and video processing units. |
| Consume over 1TB bandwidth or storage? | Enterprise plans in ImageKit at 30%+ discounts that get economical with scale A dedicated customer success person and solution engineer to ensure correct product usage and optimized billing. | High costs, lack of dedicated attention, and slow issue resolution are also the top reasons customers migrate to ImageKit from Cloudinary! |
| Overage | A small increment in monthly costs with our usage-based pricing. Overage available on individual billing items, e.g., bandwidth, user seats, etc. | Rigid pricing plans significantly increase monthly costs. You must shift to the next plan, which costs $249 per month. |
| Free plan |  | |
| Custom domain name on the first paid plan | |  |
| Pay as you go pricing for video transformations | | |
| Unlimited image transformation requests | | |
| Unlimited master images | | |
| Unlimited generated assets storage | | |
Image and video processing API
Perfect images and videos for every requirement in real-time
50+ real-time optimizations, transformations, and streaming capabilities via a URL-based image and video processing API.
Works with your media files the way you want it to
Connect your storage
Even your Cloudinary Backup Bucket!
Even your Cloudinary Backup Bucket!
ImageKit seamlessly integrates with all popular cloud storage and HTTP servers.
Whether you store assets across different locations or you plan to migrate to a new cloud platform, ImageKit guarantees real-time optimized delivery, transformations, and streaming for your videos and images.
Whether you store assets across different locations or you plan to migrate to a new cloud platform, ImageKit guarantees real-time optimized delivery, transformations, and streaming for your videos and images.
Streamline media storage and management with the headless DAM
Diverse workflows for handling media assets often slow down collaboration and time-to-market.
With ImageKit's upload & media APIs, every digital asset, regardless of its source or destination, finds its home in ImageKit's DAM—a unified asset repository that simplifies your business processes across teams and apps.
With ImageKit's upload & media APIs, every digital asset, regardless of its source or destination, finds its home in ImageKit's DAM—a unified asset repository that simplifies your business processes across teams and apps.
Developer-first SDKs & plugins
Built with DevEx at our core—clear APIs, rock-solid SDKs, crystal-clean docs, and dev-to-dev support, so you can ship faster with confidence.