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4 self-hosted Cloudinary alternatives

Cloudinary is a cloud-based media management platform that stores, transforms, optimizes, and delivers images and videos via APIs and a CDN. It supports on-the-fly format conversions, responsive/adaptive transformations, automated optimization, asset metadata and delivery workflows.

Alternatives to Cloudinary

Pimcore is an open core data and experience management platform combining PIM/MDM, DAM, CMS/DXP, CDP and digital commerce with extensible APIs and modeling tools.

3.8k stars1.5k forkslast commit Actively maintained

Diskover indexes file systems with Elasticsearch to provide fast file search, metadata analytics, and storage visibility across on-prem, NAS, and cloud storage.

1.8k stars184 forksApache-2.0last commit Slowing down

Self-hosted workflow automation for media and file libraries—watch folders, run FFmpeg/metadata steps, and route outputs with a visual flow builder.

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ResourceSpace is an open-source digital asset management (DAM) system for storing, organizing, searching, and securely sharing files with metadata, permissions, and auditing.

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What replacing Cloudinary actually involves

Every option on this page is open source and free to run on your own hardware, so you own the data and there is no subscription to cancel. 1 of 4 shipped a commit in the last six months. Licences in this list: Apache-2.0. In exchange you take on hosting, backups and updates yourself.

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