Pick Cloudinary if
media / storefront teams who will stay on Free at $0 (no card) while they open a first Analysis pane, then pay Plus at $89 / month yearly ($99 monthly) or Advanced at $224 / month yearly ($249 monthly).
Read the Cloudinary pageCloudinary vs Roboflow
Our take
Pick Cloudinary if media / storefront teams who will stay on Free at $0 (no card) while they open a first Analysis pane, then pay Plus at $89 / month yearly ($99 monthly) or Advanced at $224 / month yearly ($249 monthly). Pick Roboflow if cV teams who will stay on Free ($0 / 10 credits/month) while they self-host Inference, then buy Core at $39/month when cloud train + API credits run out.
Best for
Cloudinary Images you tag and deliver with a public $ tile
Roboflow Credits for images and train jobs, plus a $0 self-host inference binary
Free plan
Cloudinary $0 · , free forever, no credit card. Image and Video APIs. Access to free add-ons and MCP servers on the copy we fetched
Roboflow $0 · /month. No card. 10 credits/month (enough to train ~30 models or run ~80,000 inferences on their example). Unlimited admin seats. 20 projects. Private by default. Weights via Inference / MCP
Lowest paid
Cloudinary Plus $99
Roboflow Enterprise $0.10
Next step up
Cloudinary Advanced $249
Roboflow Extra credits from $4
Runs where
Cloudinary Hosted
Roboflow Local or hosted
Watch out
Cloudinary Free is a credit-capped forever tile
Roboflow Included credits reset
Last checked
Cloudinary 2026-10-23 · cloudinary.com/pricing
Roboflow 2026-10-22 · roboflow.com/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Roboflow if
cV teams who will stay on Free ($0 / 10 credits/month) while they self-host Inference, then buy Core at $39/month when cloud train + API credits run out.
Read the Roboflow page