Cloudinary

aid: cloudinary
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/cloudinary/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
name: Cloudinary
deliveryModel:
  model: saas
  open_source: false
  commercial: true
  callable_host: true
  label: Hosted service · you call their endpoint
  confidence: high
  source:
  - openapi
  - pricing
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: freemium
  onboarding: self-serve
  trial: false
  try_now: true
  public: false
  label: Freemium · Self-serve signup
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  - authentication
  - security
  generated: '2026-09-03'
  method: derived
created: '2024-11-13'
modified: '2026-05-30'
type: Index
access: 3rd-Party
position: Consuming
specificationVersion: '0.23'
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/cloudinary.png
kind: company
tags:
- Asset Management
- Digital Asset Management
- Image Processing
- Image Transformation
- Media
- Software-as-a-Service
- Video Processing
tags_raw:
- 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:admin
  name: Cloudinary Admin API
  tags:
  - Administration
  - Asset Management
  - Folders
  - Metadata
  - Webhook
  tags_raw:
  - Administration
  - Asset Management
  - Folders
  - Metadata
  - Webhooks
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/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-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/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
  - APIKeys
  - Provisioning
  - User
  tags_raw:
  - Account Management
  - API Keys
  - Provisioning
  - Users
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/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-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/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-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/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:
  - Event
  - Notification
  - Webhook
  tags_raw:
  - Events
  - Notifications
  - Webhooks
  image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/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.
- aid: cloudinary:cloudinary-backup-api
  name: Cloudinary Backup API
  description: Backup retrieval operations.
  humanURL: https://cloudinary.com/documentation/image_upload_api_reference
  baseURL: https://api.cloudinary.com/v1_1
  tags:
  - Backup
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cloudinary-backup-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cloudinary.com/documentation/image_upload_api_reference
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://cloudinary.com/documentation/upload_images
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/cloudinary-graphql.md
- aid: cloudinary:cloudinary-transformation-api
  name: Cloudinary Transformation API
  description: Apply transformations to existing assets.
  humanURL: https://cloudinary.com/documentation/image_upload_api_reference
  baseURL: https://api.cloudinary.com/v1_1
  tags:
  - Transformation
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cloudinary-transformation-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cloudinary.com/documentation/image_upload_api_reference
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://cloudinary.com/documentation/upload_images
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/cloudinary-graphql.md
- aid: cloudinary:cloudinary-upload-api
  name: Cloudinary Upload API
  description: Asset upload and management.
  humanURL: https://cloudinary.com/documentation/image_upload_api_reference
  baseURL: https://api.cloudinary.com/v1_1
  tags:
  - Upload
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/cloudinary-upload-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://cloudinary.com/documentation/image_upload_api_reference
  - type: GettingStarted
    url: https://cloudinary.com/documentation/upload_images
  - type: GraphQL
    url: graphql/cloudinary-graphql.md
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/cloudinary-capability-edges.yml
  name: Cloudinary Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/cloudinary-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/cloudinary-domain-security.yml
- type: Authentication
  url: authentication/cloudinary-authentication.yml
- 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: LlmsText
  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
- url: https://cloudinary.com/blog/feed
  type: Blog
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com