ImageKit, Cloudinary, imgix, Wedia

Side by side on what we have verified on each vendor’s own pages. Where a fact was not checked, the table says so rather than leaving a blank that reads as “no”.

What decides it · Publishes a price

One of these tells you the order of magnitude before you speak to anyone, and the others do not. That difference sets how long your evaluation takes, whatever the software does.

ImageKit

Yes

Cloudinary

Yes

imgix

Yes

Wedia

Everything else

ImageKit

Cloudinary

imgix

Wedia

Verdict

An image and video CDN with an API-first asset library, built for fast developer integration, billed on flat monthly tiers with per-GB overage once bandwidth or storage limits are exceeded.

A developer-facing image and video transformation API and CDN, billed from one pooled credit balance covering storage, transformations and bandwidth together.

Not checked

A DAM, PIM-adjacent and brand-portal platform for large multi-brand enterprises (Michelin, Decathlon, Bayer-scale customers), quote-priced and built around a dedicated admin who configures it.

Price published

Yes

Billed on

Bandwidth, storage and user seats, with published per-unit rates above the limits

Credits: one credit is 1,000 transformations, or 1 GB of storage, or 1 GB of video bandwidth

Consumption-based credits, sold in monthly tiers ($25–$500/mo self-serve, custom above that). Credits are spent on Management (2 credits/GB/month for stored assets), Delivery (1 credit/GB bandwidth), and Transformation (variable by operation). Per-credit rate drops as plan tier rises ($0.25 down to $0.12, monthly billing; slightly cheaper on annual commitment). Each plan also states an implied storage/bandwidth cap in GB.

Quoted per customer

Deployment

Cloud

Free plan

Yes

Free trial

Yes

Transparency index

70%

60%

Not checked

Most common complaint

Several units are metered at once: bandwidth, storage, video units and seats

Prices are published for the API but not for the DAM, so the product being compared with a DAM still has no price

Not checked

Neither tiers nor ranges — only a form and a demo

“Not checked” means exactly that: we have not verified it, not that the platform lacks it. Every other value was read off the vendor’s own pages on the date shown on each platform page.

What to ask on the demo

One question per platform, drawn from what actually goes wrong with it — not a generic checklist. Vendors run the demo; this hands the agenda back to you.

ImageKit Several units are metered at once: bandwidth, storage, video units and seats — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.

Cloudinary Prices are published for the API but not for the DAM, so the product being compared with a DAM still has no price — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.

Wedia Neither tiers nor ranges — only a form and a demo — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.

No email required — the page prints as it stands.