Uploadcare

File uploading, storage, image CDN and processing platform billed by operations (uploads, uncached transformations), traffic and storage.

Uploadcare handles uploads, storage and image delivery. An uncached transformation uses one operation; each upload uses at least two, while cached hits are free. Pro includes 5,000 operations, then charges $1.60 per 1,000. Uploads and transformations share that allowance, so count both. Storage and traffic are billed separately per GB.

Headquarters: 🇨🇦 Canada
Parent jurisdiction: 🇺🇸 United States (parent: Tiugo Technologies)
EU self-serve plan: No / not documented
GDPR DPA: Yes
Billing: subscription
Free tier: 1,000 operations, 5 GB traffic and 1 GB storage per month
Open source: No
Website: uploadcare.com
Source last checked: 2026-10-06
Pricing evidence: Modeled rates

Pricing

Published rates converted using workload assumptions. Read the notes. Assumes 1 MB per original and allocates shared operations to transformations; Free input limits are approximate. How to read these estimates.

Plan	Base fee / month	1k source images	1k transformations	Bandwidth / GB
Free	$0	$0	$0	$0
Pro	$79	$3.55	$1.6	$0.35
Business	$199	$1.85	$0.8	$0.25

Allowances, plan limits & calculation details

Rates are shown at their recorded precision. A zero means no charge in this calculation; the vendor may charge for things we leave out. See the notes for usage assumptions and currency conversions.

Free

Base fee / month: $0
Included source images (thousands): 0
1k source images: $0
Included transformations (thousands): 0
1k transformations: $0
Included bandwidth / month (GB): 0
Bandwidth / GB: $0
Modeled plan limits: ≤ 0.5 unique source images / month (thousands); ≤ 1 transformations / month (thousands); ≤ 5 image bandwidth / month (gb)

Pro

Base fee / month: $79
Included source images (thousands): 0
1k source images: $3.55
Included transformations (thousands): 5
1k transformations: $1.6
Included bandwidth / month (GB): 25
Bandwidth / GB: $0.35

Business

Base fee / month: $199
Included source images (thousands): 0
1k source images: $1.85
Included transformations (thousands): 50
1k transformations: $0.8
Included bandwidth / month (GB): 125
Bandwidth / GB: $0.25

Billed in operations. Pro includes 5,000 operations, 25 GB traffic and 10 GB storage, then $1.60 per 1,000 operations and $0.35/GB for traffic and storage. Business includes 50,000 operations, 125 GB traffic and 50 GB storage, then $0.80 per 1,000 and $0.25/GB. The pricing page shows $66 and $166 per month on yearly billing ("save 16%"). The monthly prices used here ($79, $199) come from third-party listings and match that discount. A non-cached CDN transformation is 1 operation and cached hits are free, so transformations_k = unique renders. Uploading a small file is at least 2 operations (API request + 1 per 100 MB, rounded up), plus 1 more if virus scanning applies (the docs' 20 MB example totals 3). per_1k_source = 2 operations at the overage rate plus 1 GB of storage (~1 MB per image), which assumes the plan's included operations go to transformations. AVIF output costs 1 extra operation per request. The operation pool is shared, so the Free plan's per-input limits are approximate. International transfers are covered by the DPA (SCCs) and the Data Privacy Framework; no EU-only storage option is published. Uploadcare Inc. is a US (Delaware) company and was acquired in January 2024 by Tiugo Technologies (Boston, a PSG portfolio company); its main office is reported to be in Vancouver, Canada.

Managed alternatives

At 50K unique source images / month, 500K transformations / month, 2,000 GB image bandwidth / month. Adjust usage and requirements.

Uploadcare: $13,443/yr estimated.

Bunny Optimizer: $354/yr estimated · $13,089/yr bill differencePublished rates
Cloudflare Images: $2,460/yr estimated · $10,983/yr bill differenceModeled ratesConverts delivery requests to bandwidth assuming 100 KB per delivered image. Cached deliveries still count.
Vercel Image Optimization: $2,880/yr estimated · $10,563/yr bill differenceModeled ratesCache-write cost assumes 100 KB output images. Cache behavior, sizes and regional rates change cost.
Netlify Image CDN: $3,528/yr estimated · $9,915/yr bill differencePublished rates
imgix: $6,393/yr estimated · $7,050/yr bill differenceModeled ratesConverts credits to images and bandwidth assuming 1 MB per origin image; origin-cache retention changes storage cost.

The price difference leaves out migration costs, operating costs and any features you’d need to replace.

Self-hosted options

Operating cost is not estimated. These options are not counted as savings against managed services.

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