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title: "Cloudinary"
description: "Realize the speed, agility and performance of a scalable, composable web architecture with Netlify. Explore the composable web platform now!"
source: "https://www.netlify.com/integrations/cloudinary/build-plugin/"
last_updated: "2026-07-11T03:06:35.000Z"
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## Details

-   Developed byCloudinary
-   Website[cloudinary.com](https://cloudinary.com/)
-   Need Help?[Contact Cloudinary](https://github.com/cloudinary-community/netlify-plugin-cloudinary/issues)
-   More Info
    -   [npm package](https://www.npmjs.com/package/netlify-plugin-cloudinary)
    -   [Review release notes](https://github.com/cloudinary-community/netlify-plugin-cloudinary/releases)
    -   [Read docs](https://github.com/cloudinary-community/netlify-plugin-cloudinary#readme)
    -   [Report an issue](https://github.com/cloudinary-community/netlify-plugin-cloudinary/issues)

Automatically optimize and serve all images served in your Netlify site deploy with [Cloudinary](https://cloudinary.com/).

The Cloudinary plugin hooks into your Netlify build process and sets up images for optimization and delivery. First, the plugin replaces all your on-page, post-compilation images with a Cloudinary-sourced URL, greatly accelerating your initial page load. Next, for comprehensive coverage, Cloudinary redirects assets requested from your images directory to a Cloudinary URL with the default fetch feature or the upload delivery type.

## Helpful Resources

-   [Automatically Optimize Images With Cloudinary’s Netlify Build Plugin](https://cloudinary.com/blog/automatically-optimize-images-with-cloudinarys-netlify-build-plugin/)