Are "url transformations" counted as such everytime a user sees a cloudinary served image ?

Anthony Salamin

April 12, 2019 11:12

Hello dear Cloudinary,

 

I have a question mostly regarding pricing. I am not sure how to calculate the number of credit needed since I don't know how the transformations are counted.

1. Let’s suppose I have a home page with up to 50 pictures

2. Each picture would be hosted on Cloudinary and weight no more than 500ko

3. Because I need the website to load as fast as possible, I will use up to 3 “srcset” pictures and those pictures will be lazy loaded when into view only. (in total 4 images, 1 for the src and 3 for the srcset)

4. Each of those “srcset” pictures would be created on the fly by Cloudinary via an url transformation and each of those srcset image will have two url transformations (resize and format or resize and blur)

5. We expected up to max 10.000 (ten thousand) visit a month on the website
   
   

Here is my simplified codepen: https://codepen.io/anthonysalamin/pen/zXozNo?editors=1010

 

If my calculations are right, I would need 50 images x 8 transformation each x 100000 users = 4 millions transformations = 4000 credits ?

 

I guess my questions is:

How much will I have to pay per month ? Which plan best fit my needs ?

 

Thank you !

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  Shirly Manor

  April 12, 2019 19:33

  Hi Anthony,

  The Transformations quota is counted toward every newly created asset, whether it's an original upload or a derived version of it.

  In your case, 50 images x 8 transformation = 400 transformations + 50 new uploads = 450. Also note that monthly quotas (i.e. Transformations and Bandwidth) are being counted within a last-30-days rolling window, therefore it never actually reset but updates every day. In your example, if in the second month you upload just 10 new images it will be 90 transformations(10 new uploads + 8 * 10).

  However, when counting the bandwidth, it's multiple by users who download the images. It's determined by the size of the image and the traffic (how many users access it).

  We created the optimizations transformations in order to optimize your image size.

  Here's a quick video that will explain more -

  [](https://res.cloudinary.com/orlyborly/video/upload/Training/optimizations3.mp4)

  Please let me know if that answered your question or if you have more questions related to this matter or anything else,

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