Cloudinary vs UiChemy
Pricing
Cloudinary: Free tier, from $99/mo
UiChemy: Free plan (1,000 credits/mo), Designer $11/mo ($8/mo billed yearly)
Description
Cloudinary: Image and video API: upload, transform, optimize, and deliver media via URL parameters
UiChemy: Figma and WordPress plugins that turn Figma designs, prompts and AI-built pages into editable Elementor, Gutenberg or Bricks pages
Pros
- 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
- Pages arrive as native Elementor, Gutenberg or Bricks content on your own site and keep working if you stop paying
- Imports from Figma and also from AI builders such as Lovable, Bolt, v0 and Claude
- Free plan with 1,000 credits a month and no card required
Cons
- 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
- Only useful if your site runs on WordPress, and Bricks output needs a paid Bricks license
- Credits reset every month without carrying over, and AI Express conversions cost more credits than Classic Mode
- The free plan allows one site project of up to five pages
Details
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.
UiChemy moves a finished design into WordPress without rebuilding it by hand. You install its Figma plugin and its WordPress plugin, then send a Figma frame to your site, where it arrives as regular Elementor, Gutenberg or Bricks content you can keep editing. It can also bring in pages built with Lovable, Bolt, v0 or Claude, or write a whole site from a prompt or a brief.
It suits a founder who designs in Figma, or builds with an AI tool, but wants the site to live on WordPress. The pages are stored in your own WordPress install, so they keep working if you cancel.
The free plan includes 1,000 credits a month, one Figma seat and one site project. Designer costs $11 a month, or $8 a month billed yearly, and raises those limits. Composer plans, from $5 a month billed yearly, cover only the AI code editor that works inside your page builder, using your own AI key. UiChemy is made by POSIMYTH, and every paid plan has a 14-day money-back guarantee.
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