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Cloudinary is a cloud-based service that provides comprehensive solutions for managing digital media assets, including images and videos, for websites and mobile applications. The platform exposes REST APIs for uploading and transforming media, administering assets and product environments, provisioning users and accounts, and configuring granular permissions. APIs use Basic Authentication with API key and secret over HTTPS.
7 APIs
16 Features
Asset Management Digital Asset Management Image Processing Image Transformation Media SaaS Video Processing
The Upload API exposes methods for uploading and managing assets, including advanced upload options, CRUD operations on assets, metadata management, eager and on-the-fly transfo...
The Admin API supports bulk asset management (search, retrieval, update, delete, restore), and CRUD management of folders, metadata fields, metadata rules, upload presets, trans...
The Search API exposes Lucene-style query expressions across asset metadata, tags, contextual metadata, structured metadata, and AI-derived tags. Supports sorting, aggregation, ...
The Provisioning API enables enterprise account-level management of product environments (sub-accounts), users, user groups, and API keys. Authentication uses provisioning API k...
The Permissions API assigns granular permissions to principals (users, groups, API keys) by roles or directly. Supports folder-scoped, asset- scoped, and product-environment-sco...
The Transformation URL API delivers and transforms images and videos by composing parameters into the delivery URL path (/{cloud_name}/{resource_type}/{type}/{transformations}/{...
Cloudinary fires HTTP webhook notifications for upload completion, eager transformation completion, AI moderation outcomes, asset deletion, and backup events. Notifications incl...
Free: 25 monthly credits with all core features
Plus at $99/mo: 225 credits, S3 backup, auto-tagging
Advanced at $249/mo: 600 credits, custom domain, SSL
Enterprise: custom credits, multi-CDN, dedicated CSM
Credits = sum of transformations + storage + bandwidth
Image and video transformation API
URL-based on-the-fly transformations
Video transcoding and adaptive bitrate streaming
Upload API with auto-tagging
Admin API: 500 req/hr Free, 2K req/hr Paid
Bulk delete up to 1,000 resources/request
AI-powered transformations (background removal, generative fill)
Auto-format and auto-quality for delivery
Programmable Media SDKs (JS, mobile, server)
Digital Asset Management (DAM) with workflows
Multi-CDN delivery (Akamai + Fastly + others on Enterprise)
AsyncAPI description of Cloudinary's outbound notification (webhook) surface. Cloudinary delivers event notifications by issuing HTTP POST requests with a JSON body to a notific...
ASYNCAPI
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aid: cloudinary
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cloudinary/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Cloudinary
created: '2024-11-13'
modified: '2026-05-30'
type: Index
access: 3rd-Party
position: Consumer
specificationVersion: '0.19'
image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
kind: company
tags:
- Asset Management
- Digital Asset Management
- Image Processing
- Image Transformation
- Media
- SaaS
- Video Processing
description: >-
Cloudinary is a cloud-based service that provides comprehensive solutions for managing digital media assets, including
images and videos, for websites and mobile applications. The platform exposes REST APIs for uploading and transforming
media, administering assets and product environments, provisioning users and accounts, and configuring granular
permissions. APIs use Basic Authentication with API key and secret over HTTPS.
apis:
- aid: cloudinary:upload
name: Cloudinary Upload API
tags:
- Asset Upload
- Image Processing
- Media
- Transformation
image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
baseURL: https://api.cloudinary.com/v1_1
humanURL: https://cloudinary.com/documentation/image_upload_api_reference
properties:
- url: https://cloudinary.com/documentation/image_upload_api_reference
type: Documentation
- url: https://cloudinary.com/documentation/upload_images
type: GettingStarted
- url: openapi/cloudinary-openapi.yml
type: OpenAPI
description: >-
The Upload API exposes methods for uploading and managing assets, including advanced upload options, CRUD
operations on assets, metadata management, eager and on-the-fly transformations, signed and unsigned uploads, and
creation of new asset variants from existing originals. Endpoints are versioned under
/v1_1/:cloud_name/:resource_type and use HTTP Basic Auth with API key and secret.
- aid: cloudinary:admin
name: Cloudinary Admin API
tags:
- Administration
- Asset Management
- Folders
- Metadata
- Webhooks
image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
baseURL: https://api.cloudinary.com/v1_1
humanURL: https://cloudinary.com/documentation/admin_api
properties:
- url: https://cloudinary.com/documentation/admin_api
type: Documentation
description: >-
The Admin API supports bulk asset management (search, retrieval, update, delete, restore), and CRUD management of
folders, metadata fields, metadata rules, upload presets, transformations, streaming profiles, webhooks, mappings
and product environment configuration. Authentication uses HTTP Basic Auth with API key and secret. EU and AP
regional endpoints are available for enterprise customers (api-eu.cloudinary.com, api-ap.cloudinary.com).
- aid: cloudinary:search
name: Cloudinary Search API
tags:
- Asset Discovery
- Search
- Visual Search
image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
baseURL: https://api.cloudinary.com/v1_1
humanURL: https://cloudinary.com/documentation/search_api
properties:
- url: https://cloudinary.com/documentation/search_api
type: Documentation
description: >-
The Search API exposes Lucene-style query expressions across asset metadata, tags, contextual metadata, structured
metadata, and AI-derived tags. Supports sorting, aggregation, pagination via cursors, and saved searches. Visual
search and similarity search use perceptual hashes and embeddings to find visually similar assets.
- aid: cloudinary:provisioning
name: Cloudinary Provisioning API
tags:
- Account Management
- API Keys
- Provisioning
- Users
image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
baseURL: https://api.cloudinary.com/v1_1/provisioning
humanURL: https://cloudinary.com/documentation/provisioning_api
properties:
- url: https://cloudinary.com/documentation/provisioning_api
type: Documentation
description: >-
The Provisioning API enables enterprise account-level management of product environments (sub-accounts), users,
user groups, and API keys. Authentication uses provisioning API key and secret. Useful for onboarding teams,
rotating credentials, and automating environment lifecycle in multi-tenant deployments.
- aid: cloudinary:permissions
name: Cloudinary Permissions API
tags:
- Access Control
- Permissions
- RBAC
- Roles
image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
baseURL: https://api.cloudinary.com/v1_1
humanURL: https://cloudinary.com/documentation/permissions_api
properties:
- url: https://cloudinary.com/documentation/permissions_api
type: Documentation
description: >-
The Permissions API assigns granular permissions to principals (users, groups, API keys) by roles or directly.
Supports folder-scoped, asset- scoped, and product-environment-scoped permission grants and listing.
- aid: cloudinary:transformations
name: Cloudinary Transformation URL API
tags:
- Delivery
- Image Transformation
- URL API
- Video Transformation
image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
baseURL: https://res.cloudinary.com
humanURL: https://cloudinary.com/documentation/transformation_reference
properties:
- url: https://cloudinary.com/documentation/transformation_reference
type: Documentation
description: >-
The Transformation URL API delivers and transforms images and videos by composing parameters into the delivery URL
path (/{cloud_name}/{resource_type}/{type}/{transformations}/{public_id}). Supports resizing, cropping, color and
effect transformations, format conversion, watermarks, overlays, AI-driven content-aware operations, and
conditional transformations.
- aid: cloudinary:notifications
name: Cloudinary Notifications and Webhooks
tags:
- Events
- Notifications
- Webhooks
image: https://kinlane-productions2.s3.amazonaws.com/apis-json/apis-json-logo.jpg
humanURL: https://cloudinary.com/documentation/notifications
properties:
- url: https://cloudinary.com/documentation/notifications
type: Documentation
- url: asyncapi/cloudinary-notifications-asyncapi.yml
type: AsyncAPI
description: >-
Cloudinary fires HTTP webhook notifications for upload completion, eager transformation completion, AI moderation
outcomes, asset deletion, and backup events. Notifications include signatures for verification and can target
multiple endpoints per product environment.
common:
- type: LinkedIn
url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cloudinary
- type: Website
url: https://cloudinary.com/
- type: Portal
url: https://console.cloudinary.com/
- type: Documentation
url: https://cloudinary.com/documentation
- type: SignUp
url: https://cloudinary.com/users/register_free
- type: Pricing
url: https://cloudinary.com/pricing
- type: StatusPage
url: https://status.cloudinary.com/
- type: GitHub
url: https://github.com/cloudinary
- type: TermsOfService
url: https://cloudinary.com/tos
- type: Privacy
url: https://cloudinary.com/privacy
- type: Features
data:
- 'Free: 25 monthly credits with all core features'
- 'Plus at $99/mo: 225 credits, S3 backup, auto-tagging'
- 'Advanced at $249/mo: 600 credits, custom domain, SSL'
- 'Enterprise: custom credits, multi-CDN, dedicated CSM'
- Credits = sum of transformations + storage + bandwidth
- Image and video transformation API
- URL-based on-the-fly transformations
- Video transcoding and adaptive bitrate streaming
- Upload API with auto-tagging
- 'Admin API: 500 req/hr Free, 2K req/hr Paid'
- Bulk delete up to 1,000 resources/request
- AI-powered transformations (background removal, generative fill)
- Auto-format and auto-quality for delivery
- Programmable Media SDKs (JS, mobile, server)
- Digital Asset Management (DAM) with workflows
- Multi-CDN delivery (Akamai + Fastly + others on Enterprise)
sources:
- https://cloudinary.com/pricing
updated: '2026-05-04'
- type: Integrations
url: https://cloudinary.com/integrations
- type: LLMsTxt
url: https://cloudinary.com/llms.txt
integrations:
- name: AWS
- name: Shopify
- name: Contentful
- name: Syndigo
- name: WordPress
- name: ContentSquare
- name: Actindo
- name: Adobe Commerce
- name: Adobe Creative Cloud Connector
- name: Adobe Workfront
- name: Agility
- name: Akeneo
- name: AltText.ai
- name: Bluestone PIM
- name: 'Braze + Cloudinary: Instant, At-Scale Personalization'
- name: Builder.io
- name: ButterCMS
- name: Chioro (eCube)
- name: CloudCannon
- name: CloudEagle.ai
- name: Commercetools
- name: Conscia
- name: Contentstack
- name: Creative Force
- name: Digital Wave
- name: Dropbox
- name: Drupal
- name: FADEL
- name: Figma
- name: Front-Commerce
- name: Gemini
- name: Gettyimages
- name: Google chrome media library extension
- name: Google Cloud CDN
- name: Google Cloud Storage
- name: Google Translate
- name: Google Workspace
- name: Hootsuite
- name: HubSpot
- name: Hygraph (Graphcms)
- name: Intuiface
- name: iStock
- name: Kontent.ai
- name: LiveStory
- name: Magnolia
- name: Mailchimp (Intuit)
- name: Marketo
- name: Microsoft Office Microsoft 365
- name: Mobius Labs
- name: monday.com
- name: Movidmo
- name: Netlify
- name: Netlify Create (Stackbit)
- name: OpenAI
- name: OpenText for Teamsite (by Klish)
- name: Progress Sitefinity
- name: SalesForce Commerce Cloud
- name: SalesForce Marketing Cloud
- name: SalesForce Page Designer
- name: Sanity
- name: SAP Commerce Extension
- name: Shutterstock
- name: Slack
- name: Smint.io
- name: STEP - Stibo Systems Platform
- name: Storyblok
- name: Uniform
- name: Unsplash
- name: Wrike
- name: Zapier
- name: Ziflow
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: [email protected]