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Cloudinary

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imgix

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Kraken.io

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Pros of Cloudinary
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Pros of Kraken.io
  • 37
    Easy setup
  • 31
    Fast image delivery
  • 26
    Vast array of image manipulation capabilities
  • 21
    Free tier
  • 11
    Heroku add-on
  • 9
    Reduce development costs
  • 7
    Amazing support
  • 6
    Heroku plugin
  • 6
    Great libraries for all languages
  • 6
    Virtually limitless scale
  • 5
    Easy to integrate with Rails
  • 4
    Cheap
  • 3
    Shot setup time
  • 3
    Very easy setup
  • 2
    Solves alot of image problems.
  • 1
    Best in the market and includes free plan
  • 1
    Extremely generous free pricing tier
  • 0
    Fast image delivery, vast array
  • 28
    Image processing on demand
  • 24
    Easy setup
  • 18
    Smart Cropping
  • 18
    Reduce Development Costs
  • 15
    Efficient
  • 12
    Insanely Fast
  • 11
    Filters, resizing, blur and more as url parameters
  • 10
    Easy to understand pricing
  • 9
    Professional Features and Options
  • 6
    Excellent Face Detection
  • 6
    Lightyears better than ImageMagick
  • 5
    S3 as source
  • 4
    Great for Dynamic Compositing
  • 4
    Scales to your company's needs
  • 1
    Free tier
  • 1
    Amazing support
  • 1
    Great libraries and integrations
  • 1
    Automatic scrset generation
  • 1
    Forward thinking
  • 1
    Video encoding
  • 1
    Fast Image Delivery
  • 6
    Free
  • 1
    Magento plugin

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Cons of Cloudinary
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    Paid plan is expensive
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      What is Cloudinary?

      Cloudinary is a cloud-based service that streamlines websites and mobile applications' entire image and video management needs - uploads, storage, administration, manipulations, and delivery.

      What is imgix?

      imgix is the leading platform for end-to-end visual media processing. With robust APIs, SDKs, and integrations, imgix empowers developers to optimize, transform, manage, and deliver images and videos at scale through simple URL parameters.

      What is Kraken.io?

      It supports JPEG, PNG and GIF files. You can optimize your images in two ways - by providing an URL of the image you want to optimize or by uploading an image file directly to its API.

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