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Cloudinary: The Image and Video API for Developers

Cloudinary is an API-first, cloud-based solution that helps automate all processes related to managing images and videos for the web, from as simple as automatic resize of user generated content to fit specific dimensions through auto-tagging, moderations and a myriad of AI-powered transformations like generative fill, remove, replace, upscale, and many more, that can be combined in thousands of combinations to provide a seamless user experience.

Anything you may need to do with images or videos for the web, Cloudinary does for you. Need a watermark over all of your images? Check. Want to fill images with AI to adapt to wider screens? Check. Want to remove people from multiple images, blur faces or pixelate confidential information? Done!

Cloudinary has countless use cases, and the combinations to get the most value out of the APIs are endless. Sign up and explore!

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I can’t stress enough how core to what we do now is the way all the resizing and getting the right image to the right device just gets done for us by you guys without us needing to put engineering resources against any of that.


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Neil Kimmett

Director of Engineering, ClassPass

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I can’t get over how amazing g_auto is! If you don’t know anything about Cloudinary, you need to start there as it saves you so much time!


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Bettina Dönmez

Digital Product Manager, PUMA

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Because images are automatically optimized through the AI, page load times have been faster. It was certainly 3X faster, compared to a few years ago.


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Sri Kalavacharla

Senior Director, The Neiman Marcus Group

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With Cloudinary, we were able to take advantage of the latest technologies and all the latest image types to serve images optimally back to customers without quality loss, yet while improving performance.


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David Edwards

Head of Technology, River Island

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