Pricing (video tutorial)

Overview

Wondering how Cloudinary pricing works? This tutorial breaks down the usage-based model: Cloudinary charges for transformations, delivery, and storage, not just how much you store.

Video tutorial

Tutorial contents

This tutorial presents the following topics. Click a timestamp to jump to that part of the video.

Usage-based pricing

0:03	The core idea is that Cloudinary charges based on usage, not just how much you store. Learn more in the Billing and plans guide.

The three components of usage

0:12	Usage is broken into three parts: transformations, delivery, and storage.

Transformations and caching

0:17	The transformation contains the instructions to deliver a modified version of the asset, for example to optimize, resize, or remove a background. You're only charged the first time you apply a particular transformation to a particular asset, because after that, the asset variation is cached.

Delivery and storage

0:28	Every time someone loads your image anywhere in the world, that's delivery. And storing the image counts against storage.

Optimize to pay less

0:37	Here's the twist: the more you optimize, the less you pay for delivery. There's a real incentive to use Cloudinary optimizations to build high-performing websites, get the best value, and keep your costs low.

Monitor your usage

0:50	Monitor your usage in the dashboard and see trends in real time.

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