🆚 Cloudinary vs. YouTube

Type

Content delivery network
Video platform

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.

YouTube is the world's largest online video platform and social media service owned by Google that lets users watch, comment on, and upload videos, as well as subscribe to channels.

It supports high-resolution video hosting up to 8K, live streaming with real-time chat and monetization tools, algorithmic recommendations, Shorts for vertical videos, customizable playlists, subtitles, and paid channel memberships.

Headquarters

Santa Clara, California, United States
Mountain View, California, United States

Website

Pricing

Free version ✔️
Plus $99/month
Advanced $249/month
Free version ✔️ Ad-supported
Premium Lite
(ad-free non-music videos)
$8.99
Premium
(ad-free, offline videos, and background play)
Student $8.99/month
Individual $15.99/month
Family
(5 members)
$26.99/month

Categories

CDN › Rank #12
Image Optimization › Rank #3
Video Platforms › Rank #5
Video Platforms › Rank #1
DAM › Rank #1

Popularity

Determined by the number of sites using each technology.

The YouTube video platform is 99 times more popular than Cloudinary.
Total websites

Market share

Video Platforms

Popularity by country

Determined by the number of sites detected from each country.

YouTube is more popular than Cloudinary in all countries.
United States
Germany
United Kingdom
Japan
Spain
France
India
Italy
Brazil
Netherlands

Awards

Popularity by domain category

Determined by the number of sites in each category.

YouTube is more popular than Cloudinary in all market segments.
Business
Marketing/Merchandising
Online Shopping
Education/Reference
Blogs/Wiki
Entertainment
Internet Services
Travel
Health
Non-Profit/Advocacy/NGO

Top sites

Top-ranked sites that use these technologies.

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See also

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