Open-source alternative  ·  Media / DAM

Replace Cloudinary with Thumbor + MinIO.

Thumbor for smart image cropping, resizing, and filters. MinIO for S3-compatible object storage. Together they replace cloud media management.

You'd keep~R17 669 to ~R44 471/year

Current licence  ·  Media / DAM

Cloudinary

~R17 669 – ~R44 471/yr

10-user estimate

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Thumbor + MinIO

Self-hosted, R0 licence

You keep ~R44 471/yr

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Today's licence price

2 tiers. Cloudinary's prices.

Vendor-advertised pricing converted to ZAR, 10-user estimate. Pick the tier closest to what your team is on today.

Plus

R17 664/yr

R1 472/month

With Thumbor + MinIO

Keep R17 664/yr

Advanced

R44 472/yr

R3 706/month

With Thumbor + MinIO

Keep R44 472/yr

Enterprise and negotiated pricing varies. Book a free audit for your exact number.

Five years on the books

What the spend looks like compounding.

Cloudinary grows around 10% per year on average. Thumbor + MinIO hosting stays flat. Watch the gap open up.

R0kR19kR39kR58kR78kYear 0Year 1Year 2Year 3Year 4Year 5R71kR12k flatSalesforce (50 users, 10%/yr inflation)SuiteCRM (self-hosted, maintained)

Five-year cumulative saving

R0.27M

Salesforce alone, single tool, 50 users. Stack multiple tools and the maths compounds harder.

How this migration runs

Cloudinary → Thumbor + MinIO, in four moves.

01

Audit

Workflows, customisations, integrations, users. Mapped against the OSS feature set.

02

Plan

Migration sequence, rollback path, parallel-run schedule. You approve every step before we move.

03

Migrate

Stream the data, verify checksums, replay the audit trail. Both stacks run side by side until cutover passes every test.

04

Operate

Documentation in your repo, monitoring on your infra. We stay on as the team that maintains and grows it.

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Free audit. 30 minutes. We map your current setup, surface the real licence costs, and show you the migration in time and rand.