A simple API to handle any file in your app.

Receive, transform, or deliver any file with our API without owning or managing infrastructure.

✓ 5 GB free usage every month
✓ No credit card required

Over 25,000 startups & enterprises from 135 countries have trusted us to convert more than 192 000 000 GB of media since 2009. Have specific needs? We specialize in that.

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How can Transloadit boost your file handling?

Handle user uploads.
Serverless

Combine Uppy.io with Transloadit and
offer file handling like never before.

Pick locally or from Dropbox & friends
Resumes after bad Wi-Fi & crashes
Crop & resize in-browser
Easier on batteries & data plans
Open source and Free forever
Reject viruses
Optimize and store in your S3 bucket
Own your data

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$ npm i @uppy/core @uppy/dashboard @uppy/remote-sources @uppy/transloadit

import Uppy from '@uppy/core'
import Dashboard from '@uppy/dashboard'
import RemoteSources from '@uppy/remote-sources'
import Transloadit, { COMPANION_URL } from '@uppy/transloadit'

const uppy = new Uppy()
  .use(Dashboard)
  .use(RemoteSources, { companionUrl: COMPANION_URL })
  .use(Transloadit, {
    waitForEncoding: true,
    alwaysRunAssembly: true,
    assemblyOptions: {
      params: {
        template_id: 'YOUR_TEMPLATE_ID',
        auth: {
          key: 'YOUR_TRANSLOADIT_KEY',
        },
      },
    },
  })

Deliver images faster. Transform on the fly

Transloadit can serve files from a data center close to your user, wherever that may be.

Up to 20x faster image delivery
Instant URL-based transformations
Short and secure URLs
Works with existing storage
Complex transforms via Templates
No code — save time and budget
Avoid abuse with Signatures

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Automate processing
millions of files

Have large media asset libraries that need to be transcoded? Transloadit makes light work of this with our highly scalable platform.

File sizes up to 200GB are supported
Import from any cloud bucket
Convert and optimize files in parallel
Export to any cloud bucket
Integrates with any programming language
Command-line tool available
Leverage AI to make media searchable
50 more features available

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Your files

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Why use Transloadit?

Free up development & server capacity

Encoding platforms require ongoing investment to deal with encoding, scaling, and stack headaches. We let you free up development & server capacity.
Automate your media workflows

Combine 73 features (Robots) to create workflows unique to your business. An elegant declarative JSON language makes this fool- and bullet proof.
Globally distributed, uptime 99.99%

Globally distributed, highly available, and scales to match any traffic. For 15 years in a row, that has paid off in an uptime of > 99.99%. See Server Status
Fantastic Support

We pride ourselves in providing outstanding and timely support right from our developers, to all of our customers.

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Don't take our word for it

I'm not usually one for fanboy-ism but Transloadit is one service I would recommend without hesitation. Their product and customer support is outstanding.

Dave Perrett
CTO Shuttlerock

Having a solution for both uploading and transcoding has been a godsend for the current scale that we are at five years after first choosing Transloadit.

Jon Wong
Engineer Coursera

Using Transloadit saves development and maintenance. Being able to focus on our product instead of reinventing the wheel cannot be understated.

Matt Sumner
Developer thoughtbot

Three lucky quotes? Check out overwhelmingly positive customer feedback since 2009.

Powerful file processing

Video Encoding

Choose from a variety of video encoding features to maximize file compatibility across platforms, as well as enrich video with effects, loops, watermarks, and more, to get the most out of your video content.

Resize and encode into various formats
Auto-correct badly rotated videos
Extract thumbnails
Watermark videos or surround them with a frame
+50 other video encoding features

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Image Manipulation

Tailor your image content to fit your specific needs by making use of our various image manipulation features. Transloadit can convert, resize and crop images, and much more.

Convert images into various formats
Apply effects and watermarks to images
Crop, rotate and resizes images via smart strategies
Optimize images, reducing size by up to 80% without quality loss
+ Many other image manipulation features

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Document Processing

Processing documents can be a tedious and time-consuming task, so why not let us take care of that? Transloadit offers a wide array of features to automate your document processing needs, saving you both time and money.

Convert document files into PDF format
Make screenshots of URLs and HTML files
Convert PDF pages into images
Overlay videos with dynamic artwork, generated with HTML & JS
+ Many other document processing features

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Audio Encoding

Utilize a versatile toolkit of audio encoding features to maximize file compatibility across platforms, and enrich audio tracks with effects, loops, overlays, and more, to get the most out of your audio content.

Loop audio tracks
Generate waveform images from audio files
Concatenate two audio files
Normalize loudness on an audio track
+ Many other audio encoding options

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There’s more...

Detect malicious files

Our file filtering service guarantees that each file finds its way into the appropriate encoding pipeline, and offers you protection against the many dangers of the digital world. Millions of trojans, viruses, malware, and other malicious threats are eliminated before they even reach your platform.

Automate your processing with AI

Transloadit offers Artificial Intelligence as a service, so you don't have to run your own models or install complicated software. Benefit from various AI capabilities that are available right inside our encoding pipelines to further automate your media processing.

Smart CDN

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) is the best place to host content. Files are cached and distributed globally in order to keep latencies low. Transloadit can make sure that content is delivered from a data center close to you or your user, wherever in the world that may be.

Compress files and save data

With encoding jobs potentially involving large amounts of input files, file compression can be instrumental for keeping data usage under control. Transloadit is able to archive and extract entire media libraries, and supports a wide variety of compression algorithms and formats.

Import and export to any of these services

Integration

HTML & Javascript

One of the many ways to use Transloadit is for handling file uploads in browsers. This makes a good case for using Transloadit with Uppy, our open source file uploader.

This demo embeds Uppyʼs Dashboard to handle uploads:

<link
  href="https://releases.transloadit.com/uppy/v4.2.0/uppy.min.css"
  rel="stylesheet"
/>
<button id="browse">Select Files</button>
<script type="module">
  import { Uppy, Dashboard, ImageEditor, RemoteSources, Transloadit }
   from 'https://releases.transloadit.com/uppy/v4.2.0/uppy.min.mjs'
  const uppy = new Uppy()
    .use(Transloadit, {
      waitForEncoding: true,
      assemblyOptions: {
        params: {
          auth: { key: 'YOUR_TRANSLOADIT_KEY' },
          template_id: 'YOUR_TEMPLATE_ID',
        },
      },
    })
    .use(Dashboard, { trigger: '#browse' })
    .use(ImageEditor, { target: Dashboard })
    .use(RemoteSources, {
      companionUrl: 'https://api2.transloadit.com/companion',
    })
    .on('complete', ({ transloadit }) => {
      console.log(transloadit[0].results)
    })
    .on('error', (error) => {
      console.error(error)
    })
</script>

Other ways to integrate

There are also SDKs for Android, Legacy Browsers, Zapier, Terraform, and many community projects.

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We make the web better for everyone

Our team continues to advance the state of the art, releasing building blocks that carry an ecosystem.

#1 to run Node.js in production

Our founders are early contributors to Node.js and helped pave the path and shape an ecosystem that millions of teams around the world rely on today.
#1 in open source file handling solutions

We built the #1 file uploader for browsers Uppy and the #1 protocol for resumable file uploads Tus which powers Vimeo, CloudFlare, Git LFS.
#1 Node modules

Whether you're dealing with file uploads, MySQL databases or networked/unreliable systems, our Node modules are the industry standard.
#1 GitHub partner offering encoding to students

We're the first cloud encoder GitHub has partnered with to offer 10GB of free encoding credit to teachers and students who have enrolled in the GitHub Student Pack and GitHub Teacher Toolbox.

+ 2,000,000

Depending on our modules
+ 29,000

Uppy stargazers on GitHub
92%

Recommend Transloadit
80%

Revenue to open source

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Handle user uploads. Serverless

Deliver images faster. Transform on the fly

Automate processing millions of files

Video Encoding

Image Manipulation

Document Processing

Audio Encoding

Handle user uploads.
Serverless

Automate processing
millions of files