# Cloudinary

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/cloudinary/  
**Website:** https://cloudinary.com/  
**APIs profiled:** 9

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.

## Kin Score — 47.2 / 100 (developing)

Scored 2026-08-20 under rubric 0.12.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 47.2).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 72.2 |
| Contract Quality | 66.3 |
| Governance | 11.4 |
| Contract Governance | 11.4 |
| Operational Transparency | 28.9 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 31.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 60.5 |
| Access Clarity | 60.5 |

## Agent readiness — 30.3 (agent-aware)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | yes |
| Agentic Access | derived |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | yes |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | derived |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Access

Freemium · Self-serve signup — onboarding: self-serve, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: high).

## APIs (9)

- **Cloudinary Admin API** — The Admin API supports bulk asset management (search, retrieval, update, delete, restore), and CRUD management of folders, metadata fields, metadata rules, upload presets, trans...
- **Cloudinary Search API** — The Search API exposes Lucene-style query expressions across asset metadata, tags, contextual metadata, structured metadata, and AI-derived tags. Supports sorting, aggregation, ...
- **Cloudinary Provisioning API** — The Provisioning API enables enterprise account-level management of product environments (sub-accounts), users, user groups, and API keys. Authentication uses provisioning API k...
- **Cloudinary Permissions API** — 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...
- **Cloudinary Transformation URL API** — 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 Notifications and Webhooks** — Cloudinary fires HTTP webhook notifications for upload completion, eager transformation completion, AI moderation outcomes, asset deletion, and backup events. Notifications incl...
- **Cloudinary Backup API** — Backup retrieval operations.
- **Cloudinary Transformation API** — Apply transformations to existing assets.
- **Cloudinary Upload API** — Asset upload and management.

## Agentic access (1)

- **Cloudinary Agentic Access** — 8 operations · 7 acting

## Security (2)

- **Cloudinary Authentication** — http · 1 scheme
- **Cloudinary Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · DMARC

## Plans (1)

- **Cloudinary Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Asset Management, Digital Asset Management, Image Processing, Image Transformation, Media, Software-as-a-Service, Video Processing

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/cloudinary/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.