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Cloudinary vs Kraken.io: What are the differences?
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; Kraken.io: Image optimization and compression API. Kraken 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 Kraken API.
Cloudinary and Kraken.io can be categorized as "Image Processing and Management" tools.
Some of the features offered by Cloudinary are:
- Upload images to a cloud-based storage
- Upload video to cloud-based storage
- Automatic backup and revision tracking
On the other hand, Kraken.io provides the following key features:
- Developer-Friendly API
- WordPress Plugin
- Dedicated Infrastructure
"Easy setup" is the primary reason why developers consider Cloudinary over the competitors, whereas "Free" was stated as the key factor in picking Kraken.io.
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
Pros of Kraken.io
- Free6
- Magento plugin1
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Cons of Cloudinary
- Paid plan is expensive5