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by fake-news 1734 days ago
Have you considered imgix? It's like Cloudinary, but with flat pricing per # of origin images. Transformations and bandwidth don't cost extra. It's nice because you don't have to manage yet another stack, just plop in a URL and you're done.

It seems like Cloudflare wants you to predefine all the "variants" (transformations) as specific templates in their GUI, whereas Cloudinary and Imgix are much more flexible and accept specific URL parameters to create those transformations.

EDIT: Actually, Cloudflare supports that too (https://developers.cloudflare.com/image-resizing/url-format), it just wasn't mentioned in this blog post.
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KaoruAoiShiho 1734 days ago
imgix is like 5000x more expensive lol
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fake-news 1732 days ago
How is it more expensive (than Cloudinary, which the parent was talking about)?

Cloudinary uses a credit system and charges by disk space + bandwidth + transformation calls. Its free plan is metered and only good for up to a small number of monthly visitors.

Imgix charges by # of origin images, regardless of their size, and everything is included free. The free plan is up to 1000 source images and bandwidth/disk space are not charged (though fair use limits prob apply?)

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