Cloudflare Images vs Filestack
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| Figure | Cloudflare Images | Filestack |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $0.50/mo | $69/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| iOS | — | Yes |
| Android | — | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 2 | 5 |
| Spec score · Image CDN services | 9.2 (#1) | 9.1 (#2) |
| Automatic optimization | Yes | Yes |
| AVIF support | Yes | Yes |
| Company scale | Cloudflare says its systems power 20% of the Internet. | More than 100,000 applications use Filestack. |
| Compliance | Cloudflare states that it is certified to ISO 27001, ISO 27018, and ISO 27701. | Filestack states that it is GDPR and Privacy Shield compliant. |
| Custom domains | The documentation includes support for serving images from custom domains. | Yes |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Headquarters | San Francisco, California, United States | San Antonio, Texas, United States |
| Responsive delivery | Supports responsive images using srcset attributes, URL rewrites, and query parameters. | Filestack provides responsive images and global CDN delivery. |
| Responsive images | Yes | Yes |
| Security controls | Cloudflare recommends WAF, Bot Management, and Rate Limiting to protect image optimization requests from abuse. | Filestack describes TLS encryption in transit, MIME and file-signature validation, malware and virus scanning, HMAC-SHA256 policy signing, tokenized access control, and activity logging. |
| Support | Cloudflare provides an Images community forum and Discord for questions and discussion with developers and the Images team. | The Free plan provides community support, paid Start, Grow, and Scale plans include standard support, and platinum support is an add-on for paid plans. |
| URL transformations | Yes | Yes |
Plans
Filestack
- FreeFree
- Start$69 a month
- Grow$199 a month
- Scale$379 a month
- EnterprisePriced on request
In their own words
Cloudflare Images
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