| Vendor | Cloudinary | MediaValet Inc. |
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| HQ | USA (San Jose, California); main R&D in Petah Tikva, Israel | Canada (Vancouver, BC; US HQ Menlo Park, CA) |
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| Founded | 2012 | 2010 |
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| Ownership | independent, privately held (founder-led; secondary investments by Bessemer, Salesforce Ventures, Blackstone Growth) | PE-backed (STG, acquired 2024-04-02; delisted from TSX) |
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| Target market | Enterprise | Mid-market |
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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 custom configuration (unlimited users; driven by storage, modules, integrations) |
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| SSO | SAML | SAML, OIDC |
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| Certifications | SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, ISO14001 | SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA |
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| Analyst coverage | Gartner MQ DAM Platforms 2024: Visionary · Gartner MQ DAM Platforms 2025: Visionary · IDC MarketScape Intelligent DAM 2024: Leader | G2 DAM Grid Report Spring 2026: Leader (vendor-reported) |
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| OpenAPI spec | Yes | Partial |
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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://api.mediavalet.com |
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| Authentication | Basic auth, API key, OAuth 2.0 authorization code, OAuth 2.0 PKCE | OAuth 2.0 authorization code, oauth2-password, API key |
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| Token lifetime | OAuth: access 5 min, refresh 3 months (single-use); upload signatures 1 h | Access token 1 h (expires_in 3600); auth code 60 s; refresh lifetime not published |
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| Rate limit | Admin API 500/h (Free) to 5,000/h, custom on Enterprise; HTTP 420; Upload API unlimited | Daily request quota on Developer Plan, higher on Enterprise; figures not public |
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| Pagination | cursor (next_cursor + max_results, max 100 or 500 per method) | offset/count query params (count default 50); TotalRecordsFound in envelope |
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| Webhooks (API) | API- and UI-managed triggers, ~28 event types, HMAC-SHA1 / Ed25519 signed, 3 retries | SkyHOOK: API-managed, CloudEvents 1.0, 8 events, webhook or Azure Event Grid |
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| API spec | OpenAPI 3.0.3 / 3.1.0: 12 schemas on GitHub + 3 in docs (15 files in specs/) | Postman collection (362 requests) + APIM operation lists; OpenAPI exports lack paths |
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| Official SDKs | Node, Python, PHP, Java, Ruby, .NET, Go, Dart, JS/React/Vue/Angular, iOS, Android, Flutter | None official (C# upload sample on GitHub) |
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