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Cloudinary Image & Video API free hosting

Cloudinary Image & Video API

Hosting the images and short video clips used by a small public website or product prototype.

Facts

Free allowance
25 shared credits/month
Plan limits
Storage, transformations and transfer share one allowance
Storage
One credit corresponds to 1 GB of managed storage, but the 25-credit allowance is shared with bandwidth and processing rather than providing an independent 25 GB storage grant.
Account
Cloudinary account required. The Image & Video API Free plan does not require a credit card.
Retention
Assets are retained while the account remains active within its allocation. Accounts that remain disabled may eventually lose stored assets; no ordinary fixed asset expiry was established.
Custom domain
CNAME custom-domain support is listed for a paid Advanced plan, not the Free offering.
Password protection
Free shared viewer-password entitlement was not established. Advanced authentication options appear in paid-plan descriptions.
Billing
Free forever with no card; 25 shared credits. The Free plan issues warnings and can disable service after repeated over-limit usage rather than establishing an automatic paid overage entitlement.
Execution
Managed file upload, transformation, and CDN delivery only. No custom application process, user-owned MCP server, or agent sandbox execution.

Worth knowing

Media/file delivery only, not website or backend hosting. Storage, transformations and bandwidth share 25 credits: not three separate free quotas. Continued over-limit usage can disable Free service. PDF/ZIP and arbitrary-file delivery may have additional account restrictions; verify your exact format. No user-hosted MCP server or sandbox.

Reviewed 2026-10-12 from official documentation. Deployments have not been tested.

Sources

Official Free pricing ↗Credit calculation and billing rules ↗Media upload documentation ↗
Visit Cloudinary Image & Video API ↗

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