Uploadcare

Uploadcare is a file-handling platform and API that gives developers a complete pipeline for uploading, storing, transforming, and delivering files — images, videos, and documents — quickly and reliably. Instead of building file uploads, media processing, and delivery infrastructure from scratch, teams drop in Uploadcare’s File Uploader widget and APIs to accept files from users, store them, optimize and transform images on the fly, and serve them through a global CDN. It handles the hard parts of media (resizing, format conversion, compression, secure uploads) so products load faster and developers ship sooner.

The platform covers the full media lifecycle via APIs and a widget. The Upload widget/API accepts files from local devices, URLs, and cloud sources with a polished UX; storage keeps them safe; and on-the-fly image processing (resize, crop, format, quality, effects) plus video processing optimize media for any device. A CDN (working with Cloudflare, Akamai, Fastly) delivers assets fast worldwide, and features like adaptive delivery, whitelabeling, custom CDN/API domains, and security controls suit production use. Its developer-first, usage-based approach — handling upload-to-delivery in one API — differentiates it.

Uploadcare serves developers and product teams that need robust file uploading, image processing, and fast delivery. Pricing is usage-based (uploads, traffic, storage, processing): a Free plan ($0, 3 GB storage, 30 GB traffic, 3,000 uploads, 1,000 operations/month, CDN), a Pro plan around $66/month (with a pay-as-you-grow option from ~$20), a Business plan around $166/month (higher limits, whitelabeling, custom domains), and custom Enterprise; annual billing saves ~16%. It competes with Cloudinary, imgix, Filestack, and Mux, differentiating on end-to-end upload-to-delivery with a strong file uploader.