This article will help you to choose your cloud storage provider for your next project or your blog or an event, based on free pricing plans.
The moment you realize that you need to choose a cloud storage provider to use in your project and there are multiple options to choose from and you start searching for storage providers and you find a lot of choices and you want to find something that has a good free plan to start with then you might find Cloudinary and Firebase Cloud Storage.
Cloudinary: pros and cons
Pros
More Storage as you get 25 Monthly Credits: 25k transformations or
25 GB of managed storage or
25 GB of net viewing bandwidthImage and video transformations (e.g.:change the size of your assets)
Video transcoding and adaptive streaming
Better Admin Dashboard (OS-like)
Cons
Smaller Community
There is minimum file size
Has some limitations if you are using it from a javascript frontend like the inability of deleting images.
Firebase Storage: pros and cons
Pros
Wide Community
No minimum file size
Better to use if you have experience with other Firebase services like Firestore or Authentication
Cons
- 5GB Stored
Finally, I hope you enjoyed this article, and if you have other opinions please feel free to comment below or contact me.
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Have any method of cloudinary I can get the link of the image with javascript when it's uploaded? Thanks a lot!