{"id":21598,"date":"2017-09-19T12:52:50","date_gmt":"2017-09-19T12:52:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/our_free_plan_quota_just_much_bigger_again"},"modified":"2025-09-26T14:51:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T21:51:56","slug":"our_free_plan_quota_just_much_bigger_again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudinary.com\/blog\/our_free_plan_quota_just_much_bigger_again","title":{"rendered":"Our free plan quota just got much bigger&#8230; again!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-cloudinary-markdown \"><p>We know what it\u2019s like being a start-up, and whether you\u2019re running a new venture, or part of a team in a large company &#8211; we want to make your life easier and your media shine. Our proposal? Kick off your project with <strong>a HUGE free plan<\/strong>, no strings attached.<\/p>\n<p>As websites and apps evolve to be more <strong>media rich<\/strong>, managing and optimizing these images and videos becomes a more significant task for many developers and marketers. This is no easy feat, and one that Cloudinary was specifically <strong>built to solve<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>This actually isn\u2019t the first time we\u2019re doing this. About three years ago we increased our quota in a similar manner. Recently we felt it was time to further expand our free tier, especially as <strong>video<\/strong> is becoming more dominant in the field. By expanding our free tier, you\u2019ll have the opportunity to <strong>do more, for less<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>free plan quota<\/strong> has been updated as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Monthly image and video transformations have been <strong>raised by over 250% to 20,000<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Managed media storage has been <strong>raised by 500% to 10GB<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Media viewing bandwidth has been <strong>raised by 400% to 20GB<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<li>Total images and videos have been <strong>raised by 400% to 300,000<\/strong>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cloudinary-res.cloudinary.com\/image\/upload\/c_fill,h_500\/dpr_auto\/new_free_plan.png\" alt=\"New Free Plan Limits\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"c-transformed-asset\"  width=\"225\" height=\"500\"\/><\/p>\n<p>As part of this change, we\u2019re also unifying our smaller paid tiers. Check out the updated plans in our <a href=\"https:\/\/cloudinary.com\/pricing\">pricing page<\/a>. We will also update our PaaS add-on (Heroku, AWS Marketplace, etc.) plans to be aligned with our direct plans &#8211; we\u2019ll share more details about this in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n<p>Our new expanded free plan is <strong>already available<\/strong>, <a href=\"https:\/\/cloudinary.com\/users\/register_free\">sign up here<\/a> to see how Cloudinary can help you do more for little or no cost at all. 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