Cloudinary Free Plan: 25 Monthly Credits, No Card Required

Cloudinary’s Free plan is a practical no-cost option for developers, creators and small websites that need hosted image and video processing without starting a paid subscription. Cloudinary’s current official pricing and billing documentation list the plan at $0 and describe it as free forever, with no credit card required. The plan includes 25 credits each month that can be consumed across transformations, managed storage and bandwidth; one credit can represent 1,000 transformations, 1 GB of managed storage or 1 GB of image bandwidth, while Free-plan video bandwidth is also measured at 1 GB per credit. Core features include upload APIs and widgets, image and video transformations, video transcoding, adaptive streaming and CDN delivery. The Free tier is useful for prototypes, personal sites and smaller production workloads, but users should watch monthly credit consumption because storage, transformations and delivery all draw from the same allowance. If usage grows beyond the included allocation, compare the current paid plans before upgrading.