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).
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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 Tigris if teams who will stay inside the monthly 5 GB / 10k Class A / 100k Class B free slice while they open a first Buckets list, then pay Standard at $0.02 / GB-month when objects grow —
Best for
Cloudinary Images you tag and deliver with a public $ tile
Tigris Objects you start at $0 egress
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
Tigris No free plan
Lowest paid
Cloudinary Plus $99
Tigris Archive $0.004
Next step up
Cloudinary Advanced $249
Tigris Infrequent Access $0.01
Runs where
Cloudinary Hosted
Tigris Hosted
Watch out
Cloudinary Free is a credit-capped forever tile
Tigris 5 GB free is Standard only, and it resets monthly
Last checked
Cloudinary 2026-10-23 · cloudinary.com/pricing
Tigris 2026-10-23 · tigrisdata.com/pricing
Which one, then?
Pick Tigris if
teams who will stay inside the monthly 5 GB / 10k Class A / 100k Class B free slice while they open a first Buckets list, then pay Standard at $0.02 / GB-month when objects grow — and who care that egress stays $0.
Read the Tigris page