Uploadcare
Platform for uploading, storing, processing, and delivering media files at scale
- Vendor
- Uploadcare
- Also known as
- uploadcare
Available worldwide
What is Uploadcare?
A file management system that handles uploading, storage, real-time optimization, and CDN delivery of images, videos, and documents for web and mobile applications, with URL-based image transformations.
Uploadcare pricing
We don't have Uploadcare's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.
What Uploadcare does
The capabilities that matter for image optimization, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Architecture model
- Managed cloud API CDN
- On the fly URL parameter resizing and cropping
- ✓
- Auto webp avif format negotiation via browser headers
- ✓
- AI smart crop face detection centering
- ✓
- Lossless and perceptual lossy compression algorithms
- ✓
- Global CDN edge delivery network included
- ✓
- Watermarking and text overlay via URL API
- -
- Video transcoding and gif to mp4 conversion
- ✓
- Svg sanitization and optimization
- -
- Dashboard analytics for bandwidth cache hit ratio
- -
- SOC2 type ii
- ✓
- ISO 27001
- ✓
- Pricing model
- Freemium basic
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Integrations (5)
Independently observed- AWS S3⇄•
- Dropbox←•
- Zapier⇄•
- Facebook←•
- Unsplash←•
Security & compliance
Independently observed- SOC 2 Type II · Type IIactive
- ISO 27001active
- HIPAAactive
Uploadcare alternatives
Other image optimization we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- GumletCloud-based platform for hosting, streaming, and optimizing videos and images with global CDN delivery and built-in securitymedium · 54%
- Fastly Image OptimizerOptimize images on-demand at the edge to improve performance and conversionslow · 28%
- Kraken.ioCloud image compression service to reduce file sizes and improve website performancelow · 37%
- Cloudflare ImagesImage storage, optimization, and global delivery platformlow · 28%
- ImgixURL-based image and video optimization platform with automatic compression, transformation, and global deliverymedium · 53%
- ImageKitlow · 18%
Compare Uploadcare
Side by side against other image optimization, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Uploadcare, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security posture | 80 | 0.07 | 5.8 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 92 | 0.05 | 4.5 | ✓ |
| Price level | 80 | 0.05 | 4.2 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 45 | 0.07 | 3.3 | ✓ |
| Pricing transparency | 25 | 0.08 | 2.1 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 22 | 0.04 | 0.9 | ✓ |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Iso 27001: Yes · Soc2 type ii: Yes · Pricing model: freemium_basic · Architecture model: managed_cloud_api_cdn · Ai smart crop face detection centering: Yes · Global cdn edge delivery network included: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-09-01 · 60% |
Integrations
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Count | 5 | mediumsource · 2026-09-01 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-09-01 · 75% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Sla pct | 99.9 | mediumsource · 2026-09-01 · 60% |
Security
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Certifications | SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA | mediumsource · 2026-09-01 · 60% |
| Gdpr | Yes | highsource · 2026-09-01 · 75% |
| Hipaa | Yes | highsource · 2026-09-01 · 75% |
| Iso27001 | Yes | highsource · 2026-09-01 · 75% |
| Soc2 | Yes | highsource · 2026-09-01 · 75% |
| Trust center | https://uploadcare.com/about/security-whitepaper/ | mediumsource · 2026-09-01 · 60% |