| Vendor | Cloudinary | Tenovos Corporation |
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| HQ | USA (San Jose, California); main R&D in Petah Tikva, Israel | USA (New York, NY) |
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| Founded | 2012 | 2018 |
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| Ownership | independent, privately held (founder-led; secondary investments by Bessemer, Salesforce Ventures, Blackstone Growth) | independent, VC-backed (S4S Ventures, BDMI, Progress Ventures, Revel Partners, Dublin Capital Partners, UCIG) |
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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 (demo request); Tenovos Glass also listed on AWS Marketplace |
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| SSO | SAML | Not public |
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| Certifications | SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, ISO14001 | SOC2 |
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| Analyst coverage | Gartner MQ DAM Platforms 2024: Visionary · Gartner MQ DAM Platforms 2025: Visionary · IDC MarketScape Intelligent DAM 2024: Leader | IDC MarketScape Worldwide Intelligent DAM 2024: Leader · Forrester Wave DAM for Customer Experience Q1 2022: Strong Performer |
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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.tenovos.io/v1 (v1.5, all customers); UAT: https://api.uat.tenovos.io/v1 |
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| Authentication | Basic auth, API key, OAuth 2.0 authorization code, OAuth 2.0 PKCE | API key, JWT, OAuth 2.0 authorization code |
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| Token lifetime | OAuth: access 5 min, refresh 3 months (single-use); upload signatures 1 h | Access token 1 h; refresh token usable up to 30 days |
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| Rate limit | Admin API 500/h (Free) to 5,000/h, custom on Enterprise; HTTP 420; Upload API unlimited | Not documented; x-ratelimit-limit 60000 / reset 60 seen on a 401 (observed) |
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| Pagination | cursor (next_cursor + max_results, max 100 or 500 per method) | offset from/limit (max 100, search window 10,000); cursor scan for deep paging |
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| Webhooks (API) | API- and UI-managed triggers, ~28 event types, HMAC-SHA1 / Ed25519 signed, 3 retries | API- or admin-UI-managed; HMAC-SHA256 signed; 8 attempts with back-off |
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| API spec | OpenAPI 3.0.3 / 3.1.0: 12 schemas on GitHub + 3 in docs (15 files in specs/) | OpenAPI 3.0 (v1.5, 127 ops) + Content Intelligence API + webhooks OpenAPI 3.1 |
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| Official SDKs | Node, Python, PHP, Java, Ruby, .NET, Go, Dart, JS/React/Vue/Angular, iOS, Android, Flutter | none official (Node.js training samples only) |
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