Uploadcare pricing

Uploadcare is the complete file infrastructure behind your product: one integration that handles uploads, storage, processing, and delivery for images, video, and documents. It is built for products with real file volume, especially user-generated content, where file handling has to be reliable, secure, and fast at scale.

You get a drop-in uploader, a full API and CLI, and global CDN delivery, so your team ships the product and we run the file handling underneath it.

10,000+ engineering teams, including Zapier, L’Oréal, SoundCloud and Shogun. Read the customer stories.

Absolutely! We’ll price-match your current contracts with CDN and other vendors, and migrate you for free! Get in touch with our sales team to learn more.

Anywhere from a few minutes to a few days, depending on your use case. We offer ready-made libraries for all popular frameworks and take an API-first approach, and our docs and CLI are built for AI-assisted coding, so a coding agent can wire most of it in for you. On top of that, everyone on our support team is an engineer, so you are talking to someone who can actually help you build.

Uploadcare delivers through a global CDN with a 99.99% uptime SLA. If you have an existing CDN contract or need delivery through a specific provider, get in touch.

Yes, but only with a custom plan. Get in touch with our team to discuss the details.

Uploadcare supports any file types: images, videos or documents, up to 5TB each.

Yes. Your users can upload from local files, camera, a link, Dropbox, Google Drive, Google Photos, OneDrive and more, all without you registering an OAuth app of your own. If you’d rather users see your name on the authorization screen, you can register your own app for the cloud sources.

Operations are various actions associated with your files and API usage. Actions like uploading a file, making requests, or requesting transformations on your images are considered operations. Different actions have different operation costs, If you’re curious about more information on how operations are calculated you can read this article.

In Uploadcare, “Traffic” refers to the data transferred both from Uploadcare CDN to your end-users and between Uploadcare CDN and Uploadcare’s servers.

Uploadcare offers image and video optimization tools, which are quite handy because they help you significantly reduce your traffic usage. By optimizing your files, you’re essentially reducing the file size without noticeably affecting the quality, meaning less data needs to be transferred, hence, less traffic used.

When it comes to Storage in Uploadcare, it’s all about the total size of the original files stored in your account. This includes every single image, video, document, or other type of file that you’ve uploaded to Uploadcare. Unlike in some other systems, only the original versions of your files count towards your storage — not any transformations or alterations you might have made.

It’s important to note that this metric is cumulative, meaning it adds up over time. The storage counter doesn’t reset at the start of a new billing cycle.

Yes, we offer a Free plan designed for small-scale projects. It is designed to allow users to explore and experience the features and capabilities of Uploadcare without any cost. However, it’s important to note that the Free plan may have certain limitations compared to our paid subscription plans. If you require additional information about the specific features and limitations of the Free plan, feel free to contact Uploadcare’s sales team.

The Free plan is designed for very small-scale projects, so exceeding its usage limits results in a temporary suspension until the start of the next month. Paid plans raise the limits and let you keep going past them, with the extra usage billed as overage. See billing details for how that works.

We charge for our services through a subscription model. There are two types of fees: Subscription Fees and Usage Fees. The Subscription Fee is paid upfront when you sign up and covers a certain amount of usage for the chosen monthly or annual period.

If you exceed the allowed usage limits in your subscription plan, we will charge Usage Fees at the end of each month.

For more detailed information on the terms and conditions, including the Order Form, taxes, and refund policies, please refer to the full terms of service provided by Uploadcare.

Uploadcare limits are soft, and if you go above them, overage fees will apply automatically. Please contact us to discuss a plan which aligns best with your needs.

Uploadcare currently accepts major credit and debit cards for payment. In addition, if you’re subscribed to the Enterprise plan, you also have the option to make payments via bank transfers.

Please note, alternatives like PayPal, Bitcoin, and similar methods are not currently supported. If you need further information or assistance with payment methods, feel free to get in touch with Uploadcare’s sales team.

Uploadcare values your ownership rights and privacy. All files and data you upload to Uploadcare remain your property. You maintain ownership of your files and data, and Uploadcare merely acts as a service provider to store and handle your files based on your instructions.

Yes, Uploadcare is SOC2 and HIPAA-compliant, ensuring that industry-standard security measures are in place to protect your files and data. As a trusted file management service, Uploadcare prioritizes the security and integrity of your information.

Uploadcare provides a 99.9% Service Level Agreement (SLA) on all paid plans, ensuring high availability and reliability of the services. Additionally, Uploadcare systems maintain over 99.99% monthly uptime figures for most regions.

For more specific details about Uploadcare’s security certifications, compliance standards, and the SLA, check out the Trust Center.

The cost is based on the resolutions and codecs you choose, and the duration of the video. Each rendition is billed separately.

• The base rate is 10 operations per 10 seconds, multiplied by a resolution factor (×1 for 240p–576p, ×2 for 720p–1080p, ×4 for 1440p–2160p) and a codec factor (×1 for H.264, ×2 for H.265).
• The duration is rounded up to the nearest 10 seconds.

For example, a 52-second video with three H.264 renditions (360p, 720p, 1080p) requires: 60 + 120 + 120 = 300 operations.

H.264 is the universal codec. It plays on every browser and device. Encoding cost is ×1, and it’s the safe default for any rendition you want all viewers to receive.

H.265 produces roughly half the file size at the same visual quality. Encoding cost is ×2, but the smaller file size means lower traffic costs every time the video is delivered, which usually offsets the higher encoding cost many times over.

Eight resolution options are available: 240p, 360p, 480p, 576p, 720p, 1080p, 1440p, and 2160p (4K). You also choose between H.264 and H.265 codecs.

• The resolution is based on the smaller side of the video.
• Videos are never upscaled; if the original video is 900p, the highest resolution will remain 900p.
• Selected resolutions larger than the source are skipped.

We round video durations up to the nearest 10-second increment, then bill from that rounded number.

• A 52-second video is rounded up to 60 seconds.
• Billing is then calculated based on this rounded duration.

No. Only the renditions you select are generated.

• Selected resolutions that exceed the original video’s resolution are automatically skipped (e.g., a 900p source will not generate 1080p, 1440p, or 2160p renditions).
• This ensures no unnecessary upscaling.