Alternative to Cloudinary Cloudinary is powerful.
Cloudinary is powerful.
But you're probably paying for features you don't use.
PixelVault gives you fast, reliable image hosting with a clean API — without the $89/mo price tag or the transformation pipeline you never asked for.
PixelVault
Cloudinary
Starting price
Free / $9/mo
Free / $89/mo
Egress fees
None, ever
Bandwidth credits
Agent discovery
llms.txt + OpenAPI
None
API registration
One POST request
Browser signup required
Time to first upload
< 30 seconds
Minutes (dashboard setup)
Image transformations
Not yet (coming soon)
Extensive
When PixelVault is the better choice
You just need hosting
Upload images, get CDN URLs. If you're not using Cloudinary's transformation pipeline, you're paying for complexity you don't need.
You're building with AI agents
Agents can discover, register, and upload to PixelVault autonomously. No browser-based onboarding, no dashboard clicking.
You want predictable costs
Flat pricing with zero egress fees. No credit-based billing, no bandwidth overages, no surprises.
Try PixelVault free
500 MB storage, 1,000 uploads/month, zero egress fees. No credit card.
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