AI Image Cleaner vs Cloudinary
Pricing
AI Image Cleaner: 10 free credits (about 5 cleans), Basic $6/mo, Pro $12/mo
Cloudinary: Free tier, from $99/mo
Description
AI Image Cleaner: Browser tool that erases people, objects, text and watermarks from photos: you paint over the area and AI fills in the background
Cloudinary: Image and video API: upload, transform, optimize, and deliver media via URL parameters
Pros
- You choose exactly what to remove by painting over it
- Works in the browser, and you can upload and paint before creating an account
- Credit packs never expire, and failed jobs return their credits
- Transform images on the fly via URL (resize, crop, watermark), no server-side processing
- Free tier includes 25,000 transformations and 25GB storage
- Automatic format and quality optimization cuts page load times
Cons
- Run by an individual sole trader who is not named on the site
- The free credits cover about five cleans, once, and exports are capped at 2048 pixels
- Does one job only, so cropping, resizing and other edits need another editor
- Pricing is confusing (based on transformations, bandwidth, and storage combined)
- Jump from free to $99/month is steep with no middle tier
- Can get expensive fast once you have significant media content
Details
AI Image Cleaner removes things you do not want from a photo. You upload a JPEG or PNG, paint over the person, object, text or watermark, and AI inpainting fills the area to match the surrounding background. You can upload and paint without an account; generating a result needs a Google sign-in.
It suits a founder who needs to tidy product photos, screenshots or social images now and then without opening a full photo editor. Exports go up to 2048 pixels.
Each clean uses 2 credits, and a new account gets 10 credits once, about five cleans. Basic costs $6 a month for 60 credits and Pro $12 a month for 200 credits, with a lower price on yearly billing. Credit packs, sold separately, never expire. The terms say the service is run by an individual sole trader.
Cloudinary handles the annoying parts of dealing with images: uploading, storing, resizing, optimizing, and delivering them fast. Change an image from 2000x2000 to 400x400? Just change the URL parameters. Convert to WebP for smaller files? Also a URL parameter. No image processing code needed.
The free tier is generous enough for a small app. The problem is the jump: there is nothing between free and $99/month. If your app is image-heavy (a marketplace, a portfolio site, a social app), factor this cost in early. For simpler needs, you might get away with self-hosted sharp/imagemagick and a CDN.
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