Uploadcare
uploadcare.comBuild Difficulty: 3/5
Plan for 1-2 weeks of building with AI assistance
File uploading, processing & delivery for web and mobile apps
How to Replace UploadcareOverview
Features
61 features across 7 categories
Analytics(1)
Track uploads, CDN traffic, locations, bandwidth savings, file types, and API usage
Delivery(6)
Automatically load optimal images for each breakpoint and screen size with universal web component
Use your own domain for CDN links to replace default ucarecdn.com domain
Use your current CDN provider instead of Uploadcare's with custom infrastructure
Use Uploadcare CDN with existing assets by adding prefix to URLs for remote file delivery
Restrict search engine indexing of images and text to prevent SEO impact
Access content from 325,000+ nodes in 135 countries with 99.99% guaranteed uptime using multiple CDN providers (Cloudfront, Akamai, Fastly)
Management(8)
Review all API requests (POST, GET, PUT, DELETE), errors, and infected files
Fetch detailed insights on uploaded files including MIME types, size, resolution, format and metadata
Add custom metadata to files to store order numbers, item IDs, author names etc
Free Migro Tool for automated migration from other file management providers
Add multiple collaborators to projects with access to project files and settings
Create and control projects programmatically
Powerful API to handle all file operations, platform add-ons, storage, webhooks, and custom metadata
Subscribe to file events and trigger corresponding actions within your app
Processing(29)
Reduce data transfer costs for high-traffic videos with on-the-fly conversion to H.264 and AV1 formats
Automatically select optimal image format (WebP, AVIF, PNG, JPEG) based on browser support
Automatically apply levels, contrast, and saturation sharpening to enhance photos
CDN automatically chooses format and quality based on image properties and client's browser capabilities
Automated conversion to AVIF format, a next-gen format that beats JPEG at 30% smaller file size
Use AWS Rekognition DetectLabels to tag people, objects and content classes in images
Automatically and accurately isolate key content in images using remove.bg AI technology
Apply Gaussian Blur or sharpen effects with optional face detection
Create images with rounded corners or as circles
Adjust brightness, contrast, gamma, saturation and deliver grayscale or inverted colors
Accurately convert CMYK to RGB using ICC profile data
Get prevailing colors in an image as JSON with RGB values for color-based search filters
AI-powered smart cropping that detects faces, objects, and corners to determine perfect cropping frame
Convert documents from all popular formats (Microsoft, Apple, OpenDocument, Adobe) and most docs to images
Automatically enhance photos or create distinct look and feel with filters and effects
AI algorithm that returns accurate face coordinates for automatic cropping, blurring, or tagging
Convert animated GIF, WebP or HEIC to modern and efficient MP4 and WebM on the fly
GUI-based image editor with 9 built-in operations including cropping, rotating, color tweaking and photo filtering
Layer images one over another with intuitive URL operations for transparency and positioning
AI-based image analysis that tags people, objects and other content classes in images
Automate image optimization and transformations via URL API with real-time operations
Library of photo filters to add distinct look and feel across website
Request correctly sized images on the fly via URL API with preserved original images
Rotate, flip, mirror images with automatic EXIF-based rotation
Reduce image size by up to 70% with fast compression algorithm that stops before visible artifacts
Content-aware resize that retains original proportions of faces and objects while resizing background
Encode video files to MP4, WEBM, OGG formats with quality adjustment, dimension control, and thumbnail generation
Automated conversion to WebP format with support for transparency and both lossy and lossless compression
Scale objects similarly across multiple images with AI detection and original resolution preservation
Security(3)
Remove EXIF metadata from uploaded images for privacy and compliance
Detect unwanted content and scan files for malware using ClamAV antivirus engine and AI-based NSFW detection
Authenticate users to access specific files with signed URLs containing authentication tokens
Storage(2)
Connect AWS S3 bucket to use all features of Uploadcare with your own storage, including backup and custom storage options
Protect stored files with automatic backups to custom S3 bucket
Uploading(12)
Global infrastructure with accelerated upload nodes that pick the closest nodes to user for maximum speed and reliability
Official API clients for JavaScript, PHP, Python, Ruby, Rails, Java, Golang, Rust, Swift iOS/macOS, Kotlin Android
Directly connect your app to external upload sources via OAuth 2.0 with custom branding
Use your own domain for Upload API and source endpoints
Ready-made, lightweight feature-rich UI widget for file uploading that works with every major JavaScript framework (React, Vue, Angular, Svelte, Next)
Wrappers and libraries for React, Angular, iOS, and Android File Uploaders
Support for files up to 5TB with multipart chunked uploads and concurrent streams
Restrict the types and size of files that can be uploaded to your project via MIME type filtering and file size limiting
Control who can upload files to your project by authenticating upload requests with HMAC/SHA256 signature tokens
Handles direct, multipart and URL uploading, adding custom metadata, and getting malware scanner reports
Allow file uploads from 10+ sources including Google Drive, Dropbox, Box, Facebook and other cloud services
Remove copyright from uploader and use custom CNAMEs with CDN and API
Pricing
Free
- ✓1,000 operations per month
- ✓10 MB max file size
- ✓5 GB traffic per month
- ✓1 GB storage
- ✓Uploading widget and API
- ✓Basic image transformations
- ✓Delivery through CDN
- ✓Signed uploads
- ✓Webhooks
- ✓Personal use only
Pro
Popular- ✓100,000 operations per month
- ✓1 GB max file size
- ✓75 GB traffic per month included, then $0.5 per GB
- ✓50 GB storage included, then $0.5 per GB
- ✓All Free features
- ✓Auto-moderation on upload
- ✓Malicious content filtering
- ✓Automated image optimization
- ✓Content-aware crop and resize
- ✓Automated responsive images
- ✓Document conversion
- ✓Asynchronous video processing
- ✓Adaptive bitrate streaming
- ✓Signed URLs
- ✓3 team members
Business
- ✓250,000 operations per month
- ✓10 GB max file size
- ✓200 GB traffic per month included, then $0.45 per GB
- ✓125 GB storage included, then $0.45 per GB
- ✓All Pro features
- ✓Automated AVIF compression
- ✓Uploading widget whitelabeling
- ✓Custom Upload API domain
- ✓Custom CDN CNAME
- ✓Custom OAuth applications
- ✓Dedicated solution engineer
- ✓Performance & security review
- ✓4 team members
Enterprise
- ✓Custom operations limit
- ✓File size up to 5 TB
- ✓Traffic and storage price match
- ✓Connect AWS S3 Storage
- ✓Use Okta as SSO provider
- ✓Project management API
- ✓Free migration
- ✓Enterprise-grade security
- ✓Enterprise SLAs and support
- ✓HIPAA and SOC2 compliant
- ✓Dedicated solution architect
- ✓Private Slack channel
- ✓All Business features
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Integrations
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