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CloudFlare vs Cloudinary: What are the differences?
What is CloudFlare? The Web Performance & Security Company. Cloudflare speeds up and protects millions of websites, APIs, SaaS services, and other properties connected to the Internet.
What is Cloudinary? An end-to-end image & video management solution for your web and mobile applications. Cloudinary is a cloud-based service that streamlines websites and mobile applications' entire image and video management needs - uploads, storage, administration, manipulations, and delivery.
CloudFlare belongs to "Content Delivery Network" category of the tech stack, while Cloudinary can be primarily classified under "Image Processing and Management".
Some of the features offered by CloudFlare are:
- CDN
- WAF (Web Application Firewall)
- DDOS Protection
On the other hand, Cloudinary provides the following key features:
- Upload images to a cloud-based storage
- Upload video to cloud-based storage
- Automatic backup and revision tracking
"Easy setup, great cdn" is the primary reason why developers consider CloudFlare over the competitors, whereas "Easy setup" was stated as the key factor in picking Cloudinary.
Stack Exchange, Lyft, and SendGrid are some of the popular companies that use CloudFlare, whereas Cloudinary is used by Movielala, DrinkIn, and TED. CloudFlare has a broader approval, being mentioned in 2300 company stacks & 712 developers stacks; compared to Cloudinary, which is listed in 114 company stacks and 38 developer stacks.
Pros of CloudFlare
- Easy setup, great cdn423
- Free ssl276
- Easy setup199
- Security190
- Ssl180
- Great cdn98
- Optimizer77
- Simple71
- Great UI44
- Great js cdn28
- HTTP/2 Support12
- Apps12
- DNS Analytics12
- AutoMinify12
- Ipv69
- Rocket Loader9
- Easy9
- IPv6 "One Click"8
- DNSSEC7
- Free GeoIP7
- Amazing performance7
- API7
- Cheapest SSL7
- Fantastic CDN service7
- Nice DNS7
- SSHFP7
- Free and reliable, Faster then anyone else6
- SPDY6
- Asynchronous resource loading5
- Easy Use4
- Performance4
- Global Load Balancing4
- Ubuntu4
- CDN3
- Support for SSHFP records2
- Registrar2
- Web31
- HTTPS3/Quic1
Pros of Cloudinary
- Easy setup37
- Fast image delivery31
- Vast array of image manipulation capabilities26
- Free tier21
- Heroku add-on11
- Reduce development costs9
- Amazing support7
- Heroku plugin6
- Great libraries for all languages6
- Virtually limitless scale6
- Easy to integrate with Rails5
- Cheap4
- Shot setup time3
- Very easy setup3
- Solves alot of image problems.2
- Best in the market and includes free plan1
- Extremely generous free pricing tier1
- Fast image delivery, vast array0
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Cons of CloudFlare
- No support for SSHFP records2
- Expensive when you exceed their fair usage limits2
Cons of Cloudinary
- Paid plan is expensive5
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