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Cloudinary pricing
Cloudinary publishes 4 tiers. Below is each one, what it adds over the tier beneath it, and where the ladder stops being worth climbing for most people.
As of 29 August 2026, Cloudinary pricing is free, then $99/month across 4 published tiers. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free, then $99/month
- Model
- Freemium
- Tiers
- 4
- Free tier
- Yes
Cloudinary plans, side by side
Every published tier in ascending order of price, with the number of features each one lists. An absence here means the record does not itemise it, not that the tier lacks it.
| Plan | Price | Features listed | Step up from the tier below |
|---|---|---|---|
| Free | Free | 10 | Entry tier |
| Plus | $99/month | 7 | +$99/month, 7 more features |
| Advanced | $249/month | 4 | +$150/month, 4 more features |
| Enterprise | On request | 7 | Priced on request |
What each tier adds
The set difference between each tier's feature list and the one beneath it. Where a tier lists nothing new, the vendor has either stopped repeating the inherited list or the tier raises limits rather than adding capability, the record does not distinguish the two, so this page does not either.
Free
FreeThe entry tier. It covers upload widget, api, search, remote fetch, auto-backup, revision tracking.
Plus
$99/monthOver Free, this tier adds:
- All Free features
- S3 bucket backup
- Auto-tagging search
- Paid add-ons access
- Expedited support
- Allowlist and blocklist
- Role-based multi-user administration
Advanced
$249/monthOver Plus, this tier adds:
- All Plus features
- Custom domain (CNAME)
- Optional HTTPS SSL
- Authentication options
Enterprise
On requestOver Advanced, this tier adds:
- Multi-CDN infrastructure
- Enterprise SLAs
- Designated success manager
- Custom contracts
- SSO
- Provisioning API
- Security review
Where Cloudinary stops being free
Free, Free
- Upload widget
- API
- Search
- Remote fetch
- Auto-backup
- Revision tracking
- Image and video transformations
- Video transcoding
- CDN delivery
- Community support
Plus, $99/month
The first thing you pay for:
- All Free features
- S3 bucket backup
- Auto-tagging search
- Paid add-ons access
- Expedited support
- Allowlist and blocklist
- Role-based multi-user administration
How that compares in Databases
Across the 3 databases tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $234/month. Cloudinary starts at $99/month, which puts it below the middle of its category.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudinary (this page) | Free, then $99/month | freemium | - | |
| Canary Labs | $3000/year | Per tag band per year | - | vs Cloudinary |
| Presto | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Cloudinary |
| Privacera | On request | quote | - | vs Cloudinary |
| Dremio | Free, then $0.2/hour | Per Dremio Compute Unit consumed | - | vs Cloudinary |
| Solace PubSub+ | Free | quote | - | vs Cloudinary |
| StarRocks | Free | Open source, no licence fee | - | vs Cloudinary |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Cloudinary badges page.
Before you pay for Cloudinary
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: 4 tiers between Free and On request, with the jump itemised above. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Cloudinary runs on not recorded. The full record is on the Cloudinary review, and the rest of the category is under best databases tools.
Cloudinary pricing questions
- How much does Cloudinary cost?
- Cloudinary publishes 4 tiers, from Free for Free up to On request for Enterprise. The entry tier costs nothing.
- Does Cloudinary have a free plan?
- Yes. The Free tier costs nothing and covers upload widget, api, search. Paying starts at $99/month for Plus.
- What is the difference between Free and Plus on Cloudinary?
- Plus costs $99/month against Free, and adds all free features, s3 bucket backup, auto-tagging search, paid add-ons access.
- Is the Enterprise plan on Cloudinary worth it?
- That depends entirely on whether you need what it adds, which on the published record is multi-cdn infrastructure, enterprise slas, designated success manager, custom contracts. It costs On request against $99/month for Plus. Softwr has not used either tier, so this page can tell you what changes, not whether it is worth the difference to you.
- Is Cloudinary expensive for a databases tool?
- It starts below the middle of its category. Across the 3 databases tools in this directory that publish a starting price, the median entry point is $234/month; Cloudinary starts at $99/month.
- Which databases tools can I use without paying?
- 5 of the 8 databases tools listed alongside Cloudinary have a free tier: Presto, Dremio, Solace PubSub+, StarRocks, EMQX.
- What am I actually paying for with Cloudinary?
- The record we hold does not itemise what each tier includes beyond the plan names and prices. The Cloudinary review carries whatever feature detail is available.
- Does Cloudinary charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period for each of its 4 tiers, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Cloudinary prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Cloudinary against before paying?
- The closest databases tools in this directory are Canary Labs, Presto, Privacera, Dremio. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Cloudinary covering price, platforms and features.