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Improve your media pipelines with the Images binding for Cloudflare Workers

When building a full-stack application, many developers spend a surprising amount of time trying to make sure that the various services they use can communicate and interact with each other. Media-rich applications require image and video pipelines that can integrate seamlessly with the rest of your technology stack.

With this in mind, we’re excited to introduce the Images binding, a way to connect the Images API directly to your Worker and enable new, programmatic workflows. The binding removes unnecessary friction from application development by allowing you to transform, overlay, and encode images within the Cloudflare Developer Platform ecosystem.

In this post, we’ll explain how the Images binding works, as well as the decisions behind local development support. We’ll also walk through an example app that watermarks and encodes a user-uploaded image, then uploads the output directly to an R2 bucket.

Cloudflare Images was designed to help developers build scalable, cost-effective, and reliable image pipelines. You can deliver multiple copies of an image — each resized, manipulated, and encoded based on your needs. Only the original image needs to be stored; different versions are generated dynamically, or as requested by a user’s browser, then subsequently served Continue reading

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What’s new with Cloudflare Media: updates for Calls, Stream, and Images

Our customers use Cloudflare Calls, Stream, and Images to build live, interactive, and real-time experiences for their users. We want to reduce friction by making it easier to get data into our products. This also means providing transparent pricing, so customers can be confident that costs make economic sense for their business, especially as they scale.

Today, we’re introducing four new improvements to help you build media applications with Cloudflare:

• Cloudflare Calls is in open beta with transparent pricing
• Cloudflare Stream has a Live Clipping API to let your viewers instantly clip from ongoing streams
• Cloudflare Images has a pre-built upload widget that you can embed in your application to accept uploads from your users
• Cloudflare Images lets you crop and resize images of people at scale with automatic face cropping

Build real-time video and audio applications with Cloudflare Calls

Cloudflare Calls is now in open beta, and you can activate it from your dashboard. Your usage will be free until May 15, 2024. Starting May 15, 2024, customers with a Calls subscription will receive the first terabyte each month for free, with any usage beyond that charged at $0.05 per real-time gigabyte. Additionally, there are no charges for Continue reading

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Image optimization made simpler and more predictable: we’re merging Cloudflare Images and Image Resizing

Starting November 15, 2023, we’re merging Cloudflare Images and Image Resizing.

All Image Resizing features will be available as part of the Cloudflare Images product. To let you calculate your monthly costs more accurately and reliably, we’re changing how we bill to resize images that aren’t stored at Cloudflare. Our new pricing model will cost $0.50 per 1,000 unique transformations.

For existing Image Resizing customers, you can continue to use the legacy version of Image Resizing. When the merge is live, then you can opt into the new pricing model for more predictable pricing.

In this post, we'll cover why we came to this decision, what's changing, and how these changes might impact you.

Simplifying our products

When you build an application with images, you need to think about three separate operations: storage, optimization, and delivery.

In 2019, we launched Image Resizing, which can optimize and transform any publicly available image on the Internet based on a set of parameters. This enables our customers to deliver variants of a single image for each use case without creating and storing additional copies.

For example, an e-commerce platform for furniture retailers might use the same image of a lamp on Continue reading