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ImageKit, Optimizely, Mylio, Cloudinary

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 · Runs on your own servers

If the files genuinely cannot leave your infrastructure, this is not a close race — the platforms marked No below should not be on the call at all.

ImageKit

No

Optimizely

No

Mylio

Yes

Cloudinary

No

Everything else

ImageKit
Optimizely
Mylio
Cloudinary
Verdict
Not checked
Not checked
Not checked
Not checked
Price published
Yes
No
No
Yes
Billed on
Bandwidth, storage and user seats, with published per-unit rates above the limits
Quoted per customer
Personal, Family and Business plans; no amounts on the page
Credits: one credit is 1,000 transformations, or 1 GB of storage, or 1 GB of video bandwidth
Deployment
Cloud
Cloud
On-premise, Cloud
Cloud
Free plan
Yes
No
No
Yes
Free trial
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Transparency index
70%
0%
50%
60%
Most common complaint
Several units are metered at once: bandwidth, storage, video units and seats
Not one tier and not one figure on the pricing page
Three plans are named and none is priced on the pricing page
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” 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.
Optimizely Not one tier and not one figure on the pricing page — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
Mylio Three plans are named and none is priced on the pricing page — 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.

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