Cloudinary vs ImageKit: free tier limits side by side
The free tier limit rows of Cloudinary and ImageKit, as each vendor's public page listed them. Data collected on 2026-10-05.
Each column keeps the order of that tool's own page. A row puts two items next to each other by position only: they are the same kind of limit only when the item names say so. This page ranks nothing and picks neither tool.
| Cloudinary | ImageKit |
|---|---|
| Monthly credits: 25 | Bandwidth: 20 GB per month |
| 1 credit as transformations: 1,000 transformations | DAM storage: 3 GB |
| 1 credit as storage: 1GB managed storage | Video processing units: 500 per month |
| 1 credit as bandwidth: 1GB image bandwidth | Extension units: 650 per month |
| Users: 3 | User seats: 2 |
| Accounts: 1 | Purge cache requests: 500 per month |
| Custom domain names: 0 |
Tool pages
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