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: kin@apievangelist.com