🆚 Cloudinary vs. ShortPixel

Compare technologies based on real-world usage data *

Type

Content delivery network
Image optimization tool

About

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.

ShortPixel is an image optimization service with WebP and AVIF support and CDN delivery.

Headquarters

Santa Clara, California, United States
Bucharest, Romania

Website

Pricing

Free version ✔️
Plus$99/month
Advanced$249/month
Free version ✔️Open source
Unlimited Monthly$9.99/month
Unlimited Yearly$99.90/year

Categories

CDN › Rank #12
CDN › Rank #16
Image Optimization › Rank #4
Image Optimization › Rank #6
DAM › Rank #1

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The Cloudinary CDN is 1.2 times more popular than ShortPixel.
Total websites

Market share

CDN
Image Optimization

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

Cloudinary is more popular in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Indonesia, while ShortPixel is more popular in Germany, Japan, and Spain.
United States
United Kingdom
Germany
Indonesia
Australia
France
Japan
Spain
Netherlands
India

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

Cloudinary is more popular among sites focused on business, marketing and merchandising, and online shopping, while ShortPixel is more commonly used on blogs and wiki, and restaurants sites.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Blogs/Wiki
Travel
Internet Services
Education/Reference
Real Estate
Health
Entertainment

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

Name
Rank
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Rank
#1,237
#12,129
#14,203
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See also

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