cdnjs vs Cloudinary

cdnjs is a free web and API service for adding JavaScript, CSS and font resources to web projects. Libraries can be referenced with script or link tags, so projects do not need a build step or npm installation. Files are delivered through Cloudflare’s global network, which cdnjs lists as having more than 330 edge locations. HTTP/3, HTTP/2 and QUIC are supported, along with Brotli and GZIP compression. cdnjs is HSTS preloaded and supplies Subresource Integrity hashes for script and link tags. Its community-curated catalog lists 4,616 libraries. After approval, automation checks npm or GitHub for new versions and manages minification, compression, hash generation and publishing. The service does not pull arbitrary libraries on demand. An unauthenticated API is available at https://api.cdnjs.com. The listed cdnjs plan costs nothing.

Cloudinary is a media platform for managing images and video through APIs, from ingestion and storage to moderation, search, transformation and delivery. It also supports workflow automation and digital asset management through Cloudinary Assets, which uses AI agents to organize, find and moderate assets. Listed media tools include image and video transformations, video transcoding, adaptive streaming, CDN delivery, smart crop, intelligent optimization, AI vision, generative fill and restore, background replacement and image generation.

The Free plan is billed forever at free and includes three users, one account and 25 monthly credits. It also includes an upload widget, API, search and MCP server access. The stated limits are 20 MB per file and 225 GB of bandwidth. Plus is listed at $89 per month (yearly) or $99 per month (monthly); Advanced is $224 per month (yearly) or $249 per month (monthly). Enterprise pricing is custom. Platforms are API, extension and web.