# Cloudinary or Alternative Image API for Dummies **URL:** https://community.thunkable.com/t/cloudinary-or-alternative-image-api-for-dummies/1900509 **Category:** Web API's **Tags:** cloudinary **Created:** [May 29, 2022, 3:03am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/cloudinary-or-alternative-image-api-for-dummies/1900509 "2022-05-29T03:03:51Z") **Posts on this page:** 1 **Showing post:** 8
### Author: ![jared](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/jared/32/138473_2.png) [@jared](https://community.thunkable.com/u/jared) #### Post date: [June 6, 2022, 5:37pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/cloudinary-or-alternative-image-api-for-dummies/1900509/8 "2022-06-06T17:37:04Z")
> [@paulovaz72](#): > > .S. Looks Supabase is cheaper than Cloudnary, right? Well, they are 2 different things. Supabase is a Firebase alternative but I believe you can also host media. Cloudinary is a quality “public” media server but AFAIK at this time, setting up 'user specific" authentication is not possible. The delete function may come later this year, but it’s not a top priority at this time as there are [workarounds available for that.](https://community.thunkable.com/t/solved-creating-a-cloudinary-signature-for-api-post-call/1041893/40) I am wondering why they need to be in specific folders. Would UUID’s not offer enough protection? I know Firebase and S3 allow for easy and programatic folder destinations for your media. Cloudinary too IF you were using the standard API (I believe). It’s a bit silly, but, you may look into uploading to cloudinary, triggering a cloud function to then take the uploaded image, throw it into a folder, delete the original image keeping the newly moved file, resize and add watermark. You might be able to do most of this via Integromat/Make/Zapier/[n8n](https://n8n.io/) and skip adding these actions to a backend. --- _[View the full topic](https://community.thunkable.com/t/cloudinary-or-alternative-image-api-for-dummies/1900509)._