Cloudinary vs Gcore CDN

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.

Gcore CDN delivers web content and video for workloads including web applications, ecommerce, games, software assets, and streaming. Its network has more than 210 points of presence across six continents, listed capacity above 200 Tbps, and average worldwide latency of 30 ms. The PAYG plan includes 1 TB of monthly traffic and 10,000 image optimizations per month at free; prices do not include VAT. Traffic over the included allowance costs 0.01 EUR per GB, while requests above 1 billion cost €0.75. Signup is free and does not require a credit card. Security provisions include SSL/TLS encryption with automatic certificate management, L3, L4, and L7 DDoS mitigation, and a web application firewall. Video delivery supports low-latency streaming, up to 4K resolution, DRM, and listed protocols including HLS, MPEG-DASH, HTTP-FLV, and MP4. The service also offers real-time logs and integrations such as Terraform and Grafana monitoring. PAYG includes 24/7 email and chat support; Enterprise uses custom pricing and adds phone support.