| Vendor | Cloudinary | Esko (MediaBeacon product line) |
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| HQ | USA (San Jose, California); main R&D in Petah Tikva, Israel | Belgium (Esko HQ, Ghent); MediaBeacon originated in Minneapolis, MN (USA) |
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| Founded | 2012 | 1989 |
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| Ownership | independent, privately held (founder-led; secondary investments by Bessemer, Salesforce Ventures, Blackstone Growth) | subsidiary of Esko, part of Veralto (NYSE VLTO) since 2023-09-30 |
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| Deployment | SaaS | SaaS, On-premise |
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| Hosting regions | US, EU, ap | Not public |
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| Pricing model | Assets: Free tier or quote-only Enterprise; Image & Video APIs: public credit-based tiers | quote-only (vendor cloud subscription or on-premise licence) |
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| SSO | SAML | SAML, LDAP |
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| Certifications | SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, ISO14001 | None published |
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| Analyst coverage | Gartner MQ DAM Platforms 2024: Visionary · Gartner MQ DAM Platforms 2025: Visionary · IDC MarketScape Intelligent DAM 2024: Leader | Forrester Wave DAM for CX Q2 2018: Strong Performer |
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| OpenAPI spec | Yes | No |
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| Webhooks (overview) | Yes | No |
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| Official MCP server | Yes5 servers - Asset Management, Environment Config, Structured Metadata, Analysis, MediaFlows; remote OAuth or local npm | No |
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| API base URL | https://api.cloudinary.com/v1_1/{cloud_name}/{action} (api-eu / api-ap for EU, AP) | https://{tenant}/wf/restapi/v2/{endpoint} |
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| Authentication | Basic auth, API key, OAuth 2.0 authorization code, OAuth 2.0 PKCE | API key, Basic auth, session |
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| Token lifetime | OAuth: access 5 min, refresh 3 months (single-use); upload signatures 1 h | API keys permanent by default; expiring keys can be created from workflows |
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| Rate limit | Admin API 500/h (Free) to 5,000/h, custom on Enterprise; HTTP 420; Upload API unlimited | Not public |
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| Pagination | cursor (next_cursor + max_results, max 100 or 500 per method) | page index (pageIndex + pageSize, default 100) on search endpoints |
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| Webhooks (API) | API- and UI-managed triggers, ~28 event types, HMAC-SHA1 / Ed25519 signed, 3 retries | none; server-side workflow triggers on asset events instead |
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| API spec | OpenAPI 3.0.3 / 3.1.0: 12 schemas on GitHub + 3 in docs (15 files in specs/) | none public (JSDoc / Javadoc HTML reference only) |
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| Official SDKs | Node, Python, PHP, Java, Ruby, .NET, Go, Dart, JS/React/Vue/Angular, iOS, Android, Flutter | none official; server-side Workflow JS API and browser Client JS API |
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