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# Cloudinary Documentation

> Cloudinary provides a comprehensive suite of APIs and SDKs for managing, transforming, and delivering media assets in the cloud.

## Documentation Sections

- [Image & Video APIs](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/programmable_media_overview.md)
  - [Get Started](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/programmable_media_overview.md): Learn how to create transformative visual experiences with image and video APIs using Cloudinary Image and Cloudinary Video.
    - [Developer kickstart](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/dev_kickstart.md): Jump into Cloudinary Image & Video APIs with easy-to-complete tasks that help you understand the value and get you up and running with Cloudinary.
      - [Step 1: Register and find credentials](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/dev_kickstart_acct_setup.md): Step 1 of the Cloudinary Image & Video Kickstart: Simple, hands-on developer tasks that help you understand the value and get you up and running with Cloudinary.
      - [Step 2: Load pages faster with optimization](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/dev_kickstart_optimize.md): Step 2 of the Cloudinary Image & Video Kickstart: Simple, hands-on developer tasks that help you understand the value and get you up and running with Cloudinary.
      - [Step 3: Your first transformations](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/dev_kickstart_transform_intro.md): Step 3 of the Cloudinary Image & Video Kickstart: Simple, hands-on developer tasks that help you understand the value and get you up and running with Cloudinary.
      - [Step 4: Resize transformations](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/dev_kickstart_transform_resize.md): Step 4 of the Cloudinary Image & Video Kickstart: Simple, hands-on developer tasks that help you understand the value and get you up and running with Cloudinary.
      - [Step 5: Set up and run your first SDK project](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/dev_kickstart_sdks.md): Step 5 of the Cloudinary Image & Video Developer Kickstart: Simple, hands-on developer tasks that help you understand the value and get you up and running with Cloudinary.
      - [Congrats! You're ready to code!](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/dev_kickstart_finish.md): After completing several hands-on developer tasks that helped you understand the value and how to get up and running with Cloudinary, you're ready to code!
    - [SDK quick starts](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/sdk_quickstarts.md): Get a Cloudinary Image or Cloudinary Video project up and running in your favorite programming language in 5 minutes or less.
    - [Try it!](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/code_explorers_demos_index.md): Try out some code explorers and interactive feature demos that help developers 'play & learn' with Cloudinary functionality.
      - [Code explorers](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/code_explorers.md): Try out some code explorers that help developers 'play & learn' with Cloudinary functionality.
      - [Feature demos](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/feature_demos_index.md): Quick index to inline interactive feature demos that help developers 'play & learn' with Cloudinary functionality.
      - [Postman collections](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/using_cloudinary_postman_collections.md): Learn how to get started with using Cloudinary's Postman Collections to test and run Cloudinary's APIs without the need for your own backend environment.
    - [MCP servers and LLM tools (Beta)](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/cloudinary_llm_mcp.md): Use Cloudinary MCP servers and LLM-friendly docs for LLM clients to perform operations and generate reliable code from markdown-based doc contexts.
    - [VS Code Extension (Beta)](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/cloudinary_vscode_extension.md): Browse, search, upload, and reference Cloudinary media assets directly from Visual Studio Code without switching between your IDE and browser.
    - [Additional onboarding resources](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/onboarding_resources.md): A collection of onboarding materials that can assist developers in a successful Cloudinary onboarding experience.
      - [Service introduction](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/solution_overview.md): An overview of the architecture, Cloudinary Console, and other major elements of the Cloudinary service.
      - [Onboarding FAQ](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/developer_onboarding_faq.md): Answers to the most common questions that developers ask when evaluating or getting started with Cloudinary Image & Video APIs.
        - [What can I do with Cloudinary's Free plan?](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/developer_onboarding_faq_free_plan.md): The Free plan gives access to Cloudinary's robust features, 3 users, access to various support channels with no credit card needed. Visit this FAQ to learn more.
        - [How do Cloudinary credits work?](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/developer_onboarding_faq_credits.md): Cloudinary's credits enable you to flexibly use transformations, storage and/or bandwidth based on your use case. Visit this FAQ to learn more.
        - [What is the image impressions metric?](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/developer_onboarding_faq_image_impressions.md): Understand how Cloudinary calculates your image impressions and how that impacts your overall credit usage.
        - [How do I upgrade or downgrade my Cloudinary account?](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/developer_onboarding_faq_upgrade_downgrade.md): Cloudinary's console makes it easy to see when you should upgrade and to select a new plan that meets your needs. You can also downgrade if needed. Visit this FAQ to learn more.
        - [Who can help with specific questions?](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/developer_onboarding_faq_who_can_help.md): Report issues in our public SDK libraries or reach out to our Customer Support for direct answers to specific questions. Visit this FAQ to learn more.
        - [Where are my uploaded assets stored? Can I keep uploading to my own storage bucket?](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/developer_onboarding_faq_storage.md): Your assets can be stored and/or backed up on our S3 or Google Cloud buckets or your own. Visit this FAQ to learn more.
        - [Where do I find my product environment credentials?](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/developer_onboarding_faq_find_credentials.md): Get your cloud name, API key, API secret credentials from the API Keys settings page. Visit this FAQ to learn more about credential management options.
        - [How do I migrate all my existing images and videos to Cloudinary?](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/developer_onboarding_faq_migrate_assets.md): There are a variety of options to migrate your existing assets to Cloudinary. Visit this FAQ to learn more.
        - [How do I deliver the most optimized assets?](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/developer_onboarding_faq_optimize.md): Cloudinary offers many features to help you decrease file size and ensure fast delivery while maintaining the needed level of quality. Visit this FAQ to learn more.
        - [Why is an old image/video still showing in my site after I replaced it with a new one?](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/developer_onboarding_faq_overwriting_assets.md): Cloudinary caches assets on the CDN for best performance. There are several ways to replace these cached assets when needed. Visit this FAQ to learn more.
        - [How do I control which users access my Cloudinary account and what they can do?](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/developer_onboarding_faq_user_access.md): You can set up 2FA or SAML login, define users with different roles and permissions, and more. Visit this FAQ to learn more.
        - [What security measures are available to prevent misuse of my account?](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/developer_onboarding_faq_account_security.md): There is a very large set of security settings and features that you can combine and customize for preventing misuse of your account. Visit this FAQ to learn more.
        - [How can I track my credit usage?](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/developer_onboarding_faq_track_credits.md): The Cloudinary Console provides data, graphs, breakdown details, and reports for monitoring your credit usage. Visit this FAQ to learn more.
        - [Aside from credits, what other usage allowances should I be aware of?](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/developer_onboarding_faq_usage_limits.md): There are a number of account and usage allowances in addition to credits that you should track. Visit this FAQ to learn more.
        - [How can I monitor account and service availability?](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/developer_onboarding_faq_availability.md): Incidents impacting service availability or performance are rare, but you can monitor them programmatically or on the status page. Visit this FAQ to learn more.
      - [Enterprise onboarding FAQ](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/enterprise_onboarding_faq.md): Answers to the most common questions that organizations ask when evaluating or getting started with Cloudinary Image & Video products
      - [Migration guide](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/migration.md): A guide for migrating your assets to your Cloudinary product environment.
      - [Glossary](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/cloudinary_glossary.md): What's a qualifier transformation? What's an upload preset? Find quick definitions of the terms you need to know to work with Cloudinary Programmable Media.
  - [Guides](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/programmable_media_guides.md): Learn how to use Cloudinary features, apply cross-feature use cases, and view code samples for all supported programming languages.
    - [Cloudinary Image](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/cloudinary_image.md): Cloudinary Image is an AI-based image platform for developers and other stakeholders to deliver endless image variations, optimized and at scale.
      - [Image transformations](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/image_transformations.md): Learn how to dynamically transform images with one line of code: crop, resize, add borders and background, face detection, rich image effects, and more.
        - [Resizing and cropping](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/resizing_and_cropping.md): Learn how to use different resize and crop modes together with various gravity options to transform images dynamically.
        - [Placing layers on images](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/layers.md): Place image, text, or other layers on (or under) existing assets to generate new and customized creations on the fly.
        - [Effects and enhancements](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/effects_and_artistic_enhancements.md): Generate and apply a huge variety of effects, filters, and other enhancements to any image on the fly.
        - [Background removal](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/background_removal.md): Use AI to remove the background of your images on the fly or on upload.
        - [Generative AI transformations](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/generative_ai_transformations.md): Use generative AI to seamlessly transform your images on the fly.
        - [Face-detection based transformations](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/face_detection_based_transformations.md): Learn how to transform images using Cloudinary's face-detection algorithms, including cropping, overlaying, blurring and pixelating.
        - [Custom focus areas](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/custom_focus_areas.md): Learn how to specify custom areas of an image to focus on for cropping, overlays and more.
        - [Transformation refiners](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/transformation_refiners.md): Learn how to refine transformations to perfectly match your creative vision.
        - [Animated images](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/animated_images.md): Learn how to create and manage animated images.
        - [Transformations on 3D models](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/transformations_on_3d_models.md): Learn how to perform transformations on 3D models
        - [Conditional transformations](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/conditional_transformations.md): Learn how to conditions to define transformations that are applied only when a specific condition is met.
        - [User-defined variables and arithmetic transformations](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/user_defined_variables.md): Use user-defined variables to keep values separate from image transformation definitions. Use arithmetic expressions to set variable or parameter values.
        - [Custom functions](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/custom_functions.md): Learn how to inject a custom function in the image transformation chain for a delivered image
      - [Image optimization and delivery](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/image_delivery_options.md): Learn how to deliver images and videos in the most optimized and responsive ways, as well as other advanced delivery options.
        - [Optimization overview](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/media_optimization.md): Learn how to deliver optimized images and videos and improve your Core Web Vitals metrics report by getting the best trade-off between file size and visual quality.
        - [Image optimization](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/image_optimization.md): Learn how to deliver optimized images with the smallest possible file size while maintaining visual quality, for improved page load times and user experience.
          - [PDF optimization](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/pdf_optimization.md): Learn how to deliver optimized PDFs with the smallest possible file size while maintaining visual quality, for faster download times.
          - [Optimize by default](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/optimize_by_default_settings.md): Learn about the settings that allow you to deliver your images and videos optimized by default, without having to change your delivery URLs.
        - [Responsive images](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/responsive_images.md): Learn how to dynamically create high quality responsive images for every platform with one line of code - including responsive breakpoints and client hints.
          - [Using HTML and dynamic image transformations](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/responsive_html.md): Learn how to make images responsive using HTML and dynamic image transformations.
          - [Using JavaScript frontend frameworks](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/responsive_client_side_fe_frameworks.md): Learn how to make images responsive using JavaScript frontend frameworks.
          - [Using the cloudinary-core JS library](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/responsive_client_side_js.md): Learn how to make images responsive using the cloudinary-core JS library.
          - [Using client hints](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/responsive_server_side_client_hints.md): Learn how to make images responsive using client hints.
        - [Deliver remote media files](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/fetch_remote_images.md): Retrieve remote media files from any URL, apply transformations, and then deliver the automatically optimized images and videos via CDN.
          - [Social media profile pictures](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/social_media_profile_pictures.md): Fetch and transform Facebook, Twitter and other social media profile pictures with fast delivery via CDN.
        - [PDF and Photoshop files](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/paged_and_layered_media.md): Deliver paged or layered media assets such as PDFs or Photoshop files, including options for delivering or transforming only selected pages or layers.
        - [Media access methods](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/control_access_to_media.md): Learn about the methods available for authentication and media access control of your media assets.
        - [CDN delivery options](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/advanced_url_delivery_options.md): Learn about Cloudinary's CDN-based delivery features, such as custom domains (CNAMEs), Multi-CDN, Fast API, SEO-friendly URLs, and more.
      - [Programmatic image creation](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/create_assets.md): Programmatically create new images for your account.
        - [Animated images](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/creating_animated_images.md): Programmatically create animated images for your account.
        - [Archives](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/generate_archives.md): Programmatically generate archives of assets in your account.
        - [Sprites](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/sprite_generation.md): Create a single sprite from multiple images to reduce network overhead and bypass download limitations.
        - [Image collages](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/image_collage_generation.md): Learn how to create collages from images in your Cloudinary account.
        - [PDF files from images](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/create_pdf_files_from_images.md): Programmatically create PDF files from images for your account.
        - [Images from text](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/create_images_from_text.md): Programmatically create images from text for your account.
      - [Product Gallery widget](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/product_gallery.md): The Cloudinary Product Gallery enables you to display your products to your users via an interactive UI.
        - [Product Gallery changelog](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/product_gallery_changelog.md): Follow the new features, enhancements, and fixes in each new release of the Cloudinary Product Gallery.
      - [Media Editor widget](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/media_editor.md): The Cloudinary Media Editor enables you to edit your images via an interactive UI.
      - [Image add-ons](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/transformations_addons.md): Learn about the add-ons available for extending Cloudinary's image transformation, optimization, and analysis capabilities.
      - [Troubleshooting and tips](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/cloudinary_image_troubleshooting_tips.md): Troubleshooting guidance and useful tips related to Cloudinary Image.
        - [Images delivered without gzip compression](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/ts_why_are_my_cloudinary_images_delivered_without_gzip_compression_content_encoding.md): Cloudinary gzips only compressible formats. For certain formats like JPG and PNG, applying gzip compression is redundant and may not yield any gain. Furthermore, sometimes it may even result in larger files.
        - [Update a named transformation](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/ts_how_can_i_update_a_named_transformation.md): Learn different methods to update a named transformation in Cloudinary, including using the management console, Admin API, and CLI SDK to regenerate derived assets.
        - [Cloudinary vs Imagga cropping](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/ts_what_is_the_difference_between_cloudinary_automated_cropping_and_imagga_smart_cropping.md): Understand the differences between Cloudinary's built-in content-aware cropping and the Imagga smart cropping add-on, including algorithm differences, configuration options, and quota considerations.
        - [Placeholder images (LQIP)](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/ts_suggested_transformation_options_for_placeholder_images_lqip.md): Suggested transformation options for placeholder images/ LQIP – Cloudinary Support
        - [Common error codes in x-cld-error header](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/ts_what_are_the_common_error_codes_returned_in_the_x_cld_error_header_when_delivering_assets.md): A reference guide to troubleshoot and resolve common x-cld-error codes returned by Cloudinary when delivering assets, with causes and solutions for each error.
    - [Cloudinary Video](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/cloudinary_video.md): Cloudinary Video is an AI-based video platform for developers and other stakeholders that offers a range of video solutions for leading-edge video delivery at scale.
      - [Cloudinary Video Player](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/cloudinary_video_player.md): The Cloudinary Video Player is an HTML5 video player with built-in HLS and video transformations, fast video delivery, and analytics capabilities.
        - [How to embed the Video Player](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/video_player_how_to_embed.md): Learn how easy it is to embed the Video Player in your website or mobile app and deliver videos with adaptive streaming, video transformations, and more.
        - [Video Player customization](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/video_player_customization.md): Customize the Cloudinary Video Player appearance and behavior to match the needs of your site design and branding.
        - [Playlists and recommendations](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/video_player_playlists_recommendations.md): Keep users on your site and expose them to other videos in your collection by creating video playlists and using video recommendations in your Video Player.
        - [HLS and MPEG-DASH](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/video_player_hls_dash.md): Embed the Cloudinary Video Player in your site to stream HLS or MPEG-DASH videos to your users according your their available bandwidth and CPU capacity.
        - [Video Player accessibility](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/video_player_accessibility.md): Understand the features included in the Cloudinary Video Player for WCAG 2.1 AA compliance
        - [Video Player advanced features](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/video_player_advanced_features.md)
          - [Events and analytics](https://cloudinary.com/documentation/video_player_events_analytics.md): Use video player events to trigger other custom behaviors in your application or track the events in Google Analytics or other analytics trackers.