Cloudinary vs Upload.io
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Cloudinary is a cloud-based service that streamlines websites and mobile applications' entire image and video management needs - uploads, storage, administration, manipulations, and delivery. | Bytescale is the best way to serve images, videos, and audio for web apps. Includes: Fast CDN, Storage, and Media Processing APIs. |
Upload images to a cloud-based storage; Upload video to cloud-based storage; Automatic backup and revision tracking; Many image manipulation capabilities & effects; Smart resizing & face detection based thumbnails; Handling PDFs, sprites, watermarks, social profile pictures; Fast CDN delivery with advanced caching; Automatic image optimization; Powerful dashboard, media library and reports; RESTful APIs, intuitive URL based transformations; Image metadata and semantic data extraction; Integration SDKs for web & mobile frameworks; Custom domain (CNAME) support; Authenticated URLs; On-the-fly Video transcoding ; On-the-fly Video overlays; | Image Processing APIs;
Video Processing APIs;
Audio Processing APIs;
Fast CDN;
Permanent Cache Layer;
CDN Mode (Process External Files via HTTP);
External Storage Support (S3, R2, GCP, DigitalOcean);
Beautiful dashboard and charts;
REST APIs;
Lightweight JavaScript SDK;
File Upload Widget;
Custom domain (CNAME) support;
Authenticated URLs |
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What are some alternatives to Cloudinary, Bytescale?
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.
OpenCV
OpenCV was designed for computational efficiency and with a strong focus on real-time applications. Written in optimized C/C++, the library can take advantage of multi-core processing. Enabled with OpenCL, it can take advantage of the hardware acceleration of the underlying heterogeneous compute platform.
ImageKit
ImageKit offers a real-time URL-based API for image & video optimization, streaming, and 50+ transformations to deliver perfect visual experiences on websites and apps. It also comes integrated with a Digital Asset Management solution.
Uploadcare
Uploadcare is file management platform and a CDN for user-generated content. It is a robust file API for uploading, managing, processing, rendering, optimizing, and delivering users’ content.
Transloadit
Transloadit handles file uploading & file processing for your websites and mobile apps. We can process video, audio, images and documents.
Cloudimage
Effortless image resizing, optimization and CDN delivery. Make your site fully responsive and really fast.
scikit-image
scikit-image is a collection of algorithms for image processing.
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.
Uppy
Uppy is a sleek modular file uploader for web browsers. Add it to your app with one line of code, or build a custom version with just the plugins you need via Webpack/Browserify. 100% open source, backed by a company (Transloadit).
ImageEngine
ImageEngine is an intelligent Image CDN that dynamically optimizes image content tailored to the end users device. Using device intelligence at the CDN edge, developers can greatly simplify their image management process while accelerating their site.
