Cloudinary Developer and User Guides

Image & Video APIs

Last updated: Jan-05-2026

Cloudinary offers a range of guides that describe available features and present common use cases, including detailed code examples in all supported programming languages.

On this page:

Product feature guides
Platform feature guides
Use-case guides
Add-on guides

Product feature guides

Cloudinary Image

Generative AI-powered image APIs for editing, optimization and management at scale

Programmatically upload images, videos, or any other file
Create upload presets to define upload options for various use cases
Embed the Upload Widget in your app

Cloudinary Video

AI-powered Video APIs for transcoding, customizing, and delivering video at scale

Learn about some best practices and use cases for video with Cloudinary
Provide the best video experience for your users with the Cloudinary Video Player
Understand and optimize your video content by analyzing your video delivery metrics

Platform feature guides

Upload

Use Cloudinary's APIs and SDKs to upload your media assets in bulk

Programmatically upload images, videos, or any other file
Create upload presets to define upload options for various use cases
Embed the Upload Widget in your app

Asset Management

Manage and get AI-based analysis of your images and videos

Programmatically search or update assets
Automatically add metadata and moderate assets
Return advanced AI analyses on your stored media

Account Management

Automatically deliver optimal size and quality assets for every device

Automate image and video optimization
Deliver images responsively
Embed the Product Gallery to present your product images and videos

Use-case guides

Retail and E-commerce

Complete guide to managing images and videos for your website and other delivery channels

Discover best practices for retail and e-commerce media management
Streamline your product and non-product asset workflows from upload to delivery
Use AI and transformation tools to personalize and create engaging images and videos

User-Generated Content

Everything you need to know about user-generated images and videos

Automatically moderate content uploaded to your site
Enhance the quality of user-generated images
Standardize media on upload

Accessible Media

Essential techniques and tools for making your images and videos accessible to everyone

Text alternatives to images and videos
Transformations to make content distinguishable
Accessible UI components with keyboard navigation

AI In Action

AI-powered features to effortlessly transform, manage, and moderate your images and videos

Use generative AI to automatically add pixels that integrate seamlessly into the picture
Ensure you keep the content that matters when cropping using AI
Save yourself hours of manually analyzing images by using AI for tagging and moderation

Native Mobile Best Practices