Statically vs Cloudinary
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Statically and Cloudinary.
Quick Verdict
3.4/5
Statically
0 reviews
4.0/5
Cloudinary
0 reviews
Cloudinary is rated higher (4.0 vs 3.4). Free CDN for static files from GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Gist, and npm, plus an on-the-fly image optimization endpoint. No sign-up required; public repositories only, 25MB per file. Cloud-based media platform that handles image/video storage, optimization, and delivery. For developers building apps that need responsive images and video without managing infrastructure.
Statically Global CDN for static assets with instant deployment and free tier |  Cloudinary Image and video management with built-in CDN and automation | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.4 (0 reviews) | 4.0 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | free | freemium |
| Starting price | Free | Free tier available |
| Best for | Open-source maintainers, hobby projects, and small sites that need to serve public Git or npm assets and images through a CDN at zero cost, without an uptime contract. | Web and mobile teams whose product surface is media — e-commerce catalogs, listings, user uploads — who want on-the-fly image and video optimization and global delivery without building and operating their own transformation pipeline. |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ✓ | |
| DDoS protection | ✓ | |
| Automated backups | ✓ | |
| Snapshots | ||
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ||
| Free tier | ||
| Data-center locations | ||
| Regions | — | Global — multi-CDN (Akamai, Fastly, Cloudflare); AWS storage worldwide, EEA selectable on Enterprise |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | free tier | free tierapi access |
| Visit Statically → | Visit Cloudinary → | |
Statically
Pros
- + Completely free with no sign-up — just rewrite the URL
- + Supports GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Gist, and npm sources
- + Useful image endpoint: resize, WebP conversion, quality control
- + Delivery via bunny.net and Cloudflare, so edge reach is real
- + Assets stay in your own repository — zero lock-in if you leave
Cons
- - Public repositories only; no private content support
- - No SLA, no support contract, tiny donation-funded team
- - Undocumented bandwidth policy — the quoted '100GB free' figure is unverified
- - Rate limiting 'in cases of abuse' with no published thresholds
- - Undocumented, unpriced 'Pro' tier floating in the docs
Cloudinary
Pros
- + URL-parameter transformations with automatic AVIF/WebP format negotiation remove the need for a home-grown image processing pipeline
- + Single credit meter (1 credit = 1,000 transformations or 1 GB storage or 1 GB bandwidth) keeps pricing understandable, and the Free plan (25 credits/month, no card) is enough for real evaluation
- + Multi-CDN delivery through Akamai, Fastly and Cloudflare, with dynamic multi-CDN routing on Enterprise and IPv6 at the edge
- + Published, third-party-measured uptime and a 99.9% availability commitment for the console and API
- + Strong compliance posture: SOC 2 Type II, DPA with SCCs and EU-US Data Privacy Framework, published sub-processor list, bug bounty and annual pen tests
Cons
- - Usage-based credits scale with traffic; heavy image or video delivery outgrows the fixed tiers with no flat-rate option below Enterprise
- - SLA remedy is weak: credits only below 99.6% availability, paid as a three-day subscription extension capped at 10% of the monthly fee, and delivery is excluded from the availability definition
- - EEA data residency is Enterprise-only; standard plans use default (US-based) AWS infrastructure
- - Proprietary transformation URL syntax and admin API create lock-in; the storage API is not S3-compatible (S3 appears only as a backup target)
- - Shared credit pool across transformations, storage and bandwidth makes monthly costs hard to predict from plan limits alone
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