Is Cloudinary still free?
Yes Yes. Cloudinary had a free tier on the vendor's public page on 2026-10-05.
The Free plan includes 25 monthly credits shared between transformations, storage and bandwidth, with no credit card required.
Free tier limits and listed figures
| Item | Value on the vendor page |
|---|---|
| Monthly credits | 25 |
| 1 credit as transformations | 1,000 transformations |
| 1 credit as storage | 1GB managed storage |
| 1 credit as bandwidth | 1GB image bandwidth |
| Users | 3 |
| Accounts | 1 |
Card and commercial use
- Credit card required
- No
- Commercial use allowed
- not stated by the vendor
Gotchas
- Storage, bandwidth and transformations all draw from the same 25 credits
- Behaviour after the credits run out is not stated on the pricing page
Recent change
No recent change is noted on the vendor page that was read.
Alternatives to compare
- Is ImageKit still free? Yes
- Is Cloudflare R2 still free? Yes
- Is bunny.net still free? Trial only
More in this category: Storage and CDN.
Source
Vendor page read by software on 2026-10-05, written out as text so you can copy it into your browser:
https://cloudinary.com/pricing