A smart Cloudinary alternative

Cloudinary uses credits for its plans which makes both this comparison, and estimating which plan you’ll need quite tricky. Credits are used for storage, traffic, and computational power (transformations). Sirv’s pricing is based on storage and bandwidth, making it much easier to choose your plan. Transformations aren’t billed, and our support will happily help you choose the right plan for you, or create a custom one. Here are some key points that make Sirv a smarter Cloudinary alternative:

Consumers expect both fast-loading imagery and rich, sophisticated experiences like videos, 360-degree spins, and deep image zoom when making a purchasing decision. Digital asset management is a key feature for many retailers: keeping product media streamlined, easily searchable, and accessible by different teams in and outside the organization is essential.

So what makes Sirv a superior alternative to Cloudinary for e-commerce?

A product gallery is the single most important element of a product detail page. Here are some crucial features that customers expect:

1. Fast loading imagery and media
2. Stellar user experience

You can be the judge which product gallery provides a superior user experience. Here’s a side-by-side comparison of Sirv’s product gallery – Sirv Media Viewer, and Cloudinary’s Product Gallery:

Sirv Media Viewer gives your customers much more streamlined and sophisticated experience compared to Cloudinary’s Product Viewer. This can be clearly seen in the 360-degree spin example. Cloudinary’s implementation has several UX flaws that are strikingly apparent on mobile devices. While trying to move the 360 spin, you can end up scrolling the entire product gallery. Frustrating experience.

Let’s see how Sirv proves to be a better Cloudinary alternative in terms of loading speed. We’ve conducted a test to measure the loading speed impact of Sirv Media Viewer and Cloudinary’s Product Gallery. The test pages contain the same set of media. Here are the test results

Sirv Media Viewer is twice as fast compared to Cloudinary’s media gallery in real-world conditions. This is achieved thanks to tens of years of combined expertise Sirv engineers have in common, building the world’s most advanced product galleries.

Fast and easy integration can be game changing for retailers. Faster time to market and lower development costs can really make a difference in such a competitive landscape.