🆚 Azure CDN vs. Cloudinary

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

📈 Azure CDN is twice as popular as Cloudinary.
🌎 Azure CDN is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.
🌍 Cloudinary is more popular in Indonesia, Slovakia, and Russia.

Azure CDN

Cloudinary

Type

Content delivery network

About

Azure Content Delivery Network is a global solution for delivering high-bandwidth content by caching it at strategically placed physical nodes across the world.

Azure CDN Standard (classic) will be retired on September 30, 2027, and Microsoft advises migrating to Azure Front Door.

Cloudinary is a cloud-based image and video API platform that provides tools for uploading, managing, transforming, optimizing, and delivering digital media assets.

It offers automatic image and video optimization, on-the-fly transformations through URL parameters, AI-based features such as background removal and object detection, adaptive bitrate streaming, a media library with asset versioning and access control, and global CDN delivery.

Headquarters

Redmond, Washington, United States

Santa Clara, California, United States

Website

azure.microsoft.com

cloudinary.com #1,359

Pricing

Free version ✔️First 30 days

Outbound data transfers (first 10TB)$0.081/GB

10–50 TB$0.075/GB

50–150 TB$0.056/GB

Free version ✔️

Plus$99/month

Advanced$249/month

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

Azure CDN technology is 1.9 times more popular than Cloudinary.

Total websites

Market share

CDN

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Azure CDN is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia, while Cloudinary is more popular in Indonesia, Slovakia, and Russia.

United States

United Kingdom

Australia

Germany

Netherlands

Canada

Indonesia

France

Norway

Sweden

Awards

⭐ 4th most popular in Denmark in the CDN category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Norway in the CDN category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Turkey in the CDN category.
⭐ 4th most popular in Ireland in the CDN category.
⭐ 5th most popular in the Netherlands in the CDN category.

🥇 Most popular in the United States in the DAM category.
🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the Image Optimization category.
🥇 Most popular in Indonesia in the DAM category.
🥇 Most popular in the United Kingdom in the DAM category.
🥇 Most popular in France in the DAM category.

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Azure CDN is more popular among sites focused on business, online shopping, and marketing and merchandising, while Cloudinary is more commonly used on Internet services, blogs and wiki, and art, culture and heritage sites.

Business

Online Shopping

Marketing/Merchandising

Fashion/Beauty

Travel

Health

Education/Reference

Finance/Banking

Real Estate

Internet Services