Cloudinary Advanced, $ 224.00/mo. on CDN

Advanced has been added on Nov 30, 2018

🔌 Domains Allowed :	unlimited
💳 Payment Methods :	Credit / Debit / Prepaid Cards
🔨 Control Panel :	[In-house]
✍️ Support Options :	EmailHelp DeskPhone / Toll-FreeForum
🌏 Server Locations :	United States
⚑ Targeting :	CA FR DE IL PL SG UK US

screenshot of Advanced from cloudinary.com

See also initial Advanced plan location on their website!

📜 Plan description

Better choice for teams with rich media requirements

Credits * 600

Maximum number of users 5
Maximum number of accounts 1
Admin API limit (per hour) 2000
Maximum image file size 40 MB
Maximum raw file size 40 MB
Maximum image megapixels 50 MP
Maximum total number of megapixels in all frames 200 MP
Maximum video file size 1000 MB
Maximum online video manipulation size 100 MB

* 1 Credit equals 1000 transformations or 1GB of managed storage or 1GB of viewing bandwidth or 500 SD video processing seconds or 250 HD video processing seconds. Credit-based pricing offers flexibility when you have varying needs in terms of transformations, storage, video, or bandwidth.

Features

Custom domain (CNAME) support
Optional HTTPS SSL Certificate
Role-based multi-user administration
Error reports

Backup to your own S3 bucket
Auto-tagging based search
Auto-tagging add-on
Video transcription add-on
OCR text detection add-on
AI-based image moderation add-on
Celebrity detection add-on
Other third party add-ons
Expedited support

Upload widget and API
DAM media library
Search via the UI or API
Remote fetch
Automatic backup and revision tracking
Tons of image and video manipulations
Video transcoding and adaptive streaming
Automatic optimization
High performance delivery through a CDN
Powerful dashboard and online reports
Custom branding for upload widget
RESTful APIs
Support - forums, tickets and email

📄 Editorial Review

Cloudinary is a specialized cloud media management and delivery platform, not a traditional web host with shared cPanel plans or VPS servers. Founded in 2012 by developers Itai Lahan, Tal Lev-Ami, and Nadav Soferman, the company focuses on solving one problem very deeply: hosting, transforming, optimizing, and delivering images, videos, and other rich media at scale for websites and applications.

Instead of classic "web hosting" packages, Cloudinary offers a platform built around API-driven products:

Image & Video APIs (Programmable Media) – core services that let developers upload, store, transform, and deliver media through REST APIs and SDKs. Typical use cases include resizing, cropping, format conversion, adaptive bitrate streaming, subtitles, overlays, and AI-based enhancements.
Digital Asset Management (Cloudinary Assets / DAM) – a higher-level product aimed at marketing, creative, and content teams. It provides a searchable media library, structured metadata, AI auto-tagging, approval workflows, access control, and sharing tools, all integrated with the same delivery and optimization engine.
MediaFlows and workflow automation – low-code workflows that help teams automate common tasks (ingestion, approvals, transformation pipelines, publishing) without writing everything from scratch.
Integrations and add-ons – connectors for popular frameworks and platforms (React, Vue, Angular, WordPress, various e-commerce and CMS stacks) plus AI add-ons for auto-tagging, background removal, content moderation, and more.

From a hosting buyer’s perspective, Cloudinary effectively acts as a specialized media CDN and object storage layer that plugs into existing web or application hosting. Websites and apps typically keep their HTML, database, and business logic on a general-purpose host, but offload all heavy image and video handling to Cloudinary’s platform. This approach is particularly attractive for e-commerce, media, SaaS, and high-traffic sites where page speed, media quality, and automation matter more than generic "disk space + bandwidth" totals.

Cloudinary’s positioning is therefore very different from commodity shared hosting. There are no classic Linux or Windows shared accounts, no domain registration, and no email hosting. Instead, they provide APIs, a SaaS console, and a global delivery network that sit alongside whatever hosting provider a customer already uses.

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