What is Transloadit?

Transloadit is a file uploading & encoding service for developers. Customers from 135 different countries, such as Coursera and The New York Times, have been loving our clever API, reliability, and fantastic customer support since we launched in 2009. We recently celebrated our two hundredth petabyte encoded. That's 200 million gigabytes.

As the first company to run Node.js in production, our founders have shaped much of its early ecosystem. Transloadit also built Uppy and Tus, two open source projects that are redefining how people share files on the internet, and is donor to 9 other open source projects.

We offer a free plan with 5GB of monthly traffic included, and an additional free service for students, teachers, open source projects, and charities. Sign up today and discover the power of our platform.

They love Transloadit

Since right after launch, our customers have been spreading the love. Here are some highlights!

“We wouldn't be able to be here without your support your service is the best video transcoding service out there and I'm happy about the reliability.”

— Elio Capella ⋅ Head of Development at Filestage on March 07, 2025

“I love it. very easy, lots of options, everything works really well.”

— Rosemary Black ⋅ CTO at Financial Gravity on February 22, 2025

“It was very pleasant, and the docs are great! I did't understood at all the smart CDN but I found this article I am reading […] For the rest amazing, I love the service.”

— Carlos Ramos ⋅ Developer at Digital Media Integration on February 15, 2025

“After nearly a week of testing various AI image processing tools, Transloadit stood out as the clear winner. Its well-designed API is both intuitive and powerful, making integration seamless. The speed and performance exceeded expectations, effortlessly handling hundreds of thousands of images. Their documentation and website are user-friendly, and most importantly, their support is outstanding. Transloadit has quickly become an indispensable part of my workflow.”

— Brian ⋅ CTO at Bitchin' Ideas on February 08, 2025

“I'm not usually one for fanboy-ism (and I've got no relationship with them apart from being a customer), but Transloadit is one service I would recommend without hesitation... their product and customer support is outstanding.”

— Dave Perrett ⋅ CTO at Shuttlerock

“Having a solution for both uploading and transcoding has been a godsend for the current scale that we're at 3 years after first choosing Transloadit.”

— Jon Wong ⋅ Staff Software Engineer at Coursera

“Superbly simple and one of the most popular features on Gitter. Even supports cat gifs!”

— Michael Bartlett ⋅ Co-founder at gitter.im

“I absolutely love you people. From the support to the technology, performance and APIs... you've taken what could have been the most painful process of my entire development career and turned it into an absolute joy. I cannot thank or recommend you enough.”

— Braden Schaeffer ⋅ Lead Engineer at Biginterview

“Top notch support — better than top notch.”

— Mike Reid ⋅ Director of Engineering at Signed

Can't praise enough the quality of support and responsiveness from the team at @transloadit. I reported an issue on a Saturday for which I received several replies the same day. Today, they rolled out an update with the fix @tim_kos

Transloadit hopped on this after hours and helped me get this straight. It's a great product, great support, and if you are processing media I can't recommend it enough!

They've been improving the product in all the right ways recently and it's great to watch. https://twitter.com/jhooks/status/1235980201068130305

Congrats to Tool of the Week: @transloadit 🏆

"The world's most versatile file uploading & encoding service for developers" https://stackshare.io/transloadit

https://stackshare-emails-prod.s3.amazonaws.com/0271dea6-5aea-4972-a223-e8337fc2d1c7.html (Subscribe to StackShare Weekly 👉 https://stackshare.io/weekly)

Transloadit's new AI bots https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/f5ovio/project_transloadits_new_ai_bots/

It was so much fun exploring @transloadit. They have an amazing product! Built this small tool in just an hour. Do give it a try 🙃 https://twitter.com/transloadit/status/1214896713405730816

Cut a huge chunk out of our video processing pipeline today and streamlined around @transloadit

So much faster!

If you need to automate media processing I can’t recommend them enough. Simple and powerful.

If you need file uploading and processing, check out @uppy_io and @transloadit. Legit magic. #javascript

There are companies out there I consider „the dream“, doing LOTS of open source work while providing a profitable SaaS service and are/seem privately owned, like @transloadit. Does anyone know other companies like that? I want to learn from them.

Very impressed with the improvements to @transloadit since the last time I needed to open it to make changes (which was like a year ago since it is stable af and "just works")

It makes life so easy at a reasonable price and saves $$$$ in custom dev work.

Just realized how @tus_io and @uppy_io are a perfect example of @transloadit commoditizing their complements: https://www.gwern.net/Complement

🏆 Top 10 hottest startups this week 👉 https://startuptracker.io/lists/types/hot/2018/1

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Congrats 👏

@transloadit Your team, products, and services are a source of constant inspiration. Thank you so much for supporting the work for so long.

@edwario In that case I cannot say enough positive things about @transloadit . Their declarative approach to defining processing pipelines is amazing as is their support team.

Yes you can build complex software and a profitable, stable business with a remote team, look at @transloadit for instance: https://transloadit.com/about/

Uppy File Uploading by @transloadit
https://davidwalsh.name/uppy-file-uploading

Couple of services that have blown my mind this week: @Dataclay @keen_io @Mapbox @figmadesign @goldfirestudios howler.js @transloadit

New Integration: Upload and Process Your Files with Transloadit
@transloadit: https://zapier.com/blog/updates/1437/integrations-transloadit

@uppy_io is absolutely blowing my mind. Kudos to the @transloadit team for pulling together such a ridiculously nice upload library. 🔝 #allthewayup

We just had one of the best customer/developer support experiences from the folks at @transloadit. @kvz & his team went above & beyond to help us build an adaptive video streaming solution at no extra cost using Amazon S3 & https://plyr.io/. Thank you so much! 🧡❤️

The next open source file uploader for web browsers https://github.com/transloadit/uppy via @transloadit

@transloadit May you live for a thousand years. Hopefully by the time I "really" need it, you Google Near Term support will be mature. But if it is not, I will reach out!!

Just finished building two image processing and audio transcoding pipelines using @transloadit Very pleased with the results!

Was introduced to @transloadit at @diy and have loved them because they’re so forward thinking. https://uppy.io/

Team @transloadit whom I work with is having a meetup in Amsterdam. I couldn’t come from New York, so they did this

Took me a little while to understand the workflow, but I have to say @transloadit is a very cool video/image/text processing service.

Used @transloadit for a few projects with uploading files (photo & audio) and it's really awesome! Great documentation & very reliable

Thanks to @transloadit for your sponsorship of Nodevember 2015! Your support of the Node and JavaScript community is appreciated!

Berlin-based @Transloadit wants to fix broken file uploads once and for all, with support from @Vimeo: https://tech.eu/features/6672/transloadit-tus-protocol-vimeo/ #opensource

Let's warmly welcome our start-up partner @transloadit!

JReviews lets users upload videos in reviews and they are seamlessly processed with @transloadit #CustomerReviews #ownyourvideos

I know you don't @transloadit. You've been by far our most reliable 3rd party service and we highly appreciate that ;-)

Thank you @transloadit for supporting us. If you ever need your media transcoded, be sure to check them out! #rejectjs

SponsorOfTheDay! We have giant love feelings for @transloadit! And not just cuz that logo's cute as a bug. Thank you!

happy to have @transloadit on board as @brooklyn_js's first overseas sponsor!

https://twitter.com/brooklyn_js/status/634457164376076288

Trying to process/thumbnail about 600k avatars in a few hours. Thank you @transloadit @Prezly

@transloadit thanks for the quick response and great customer support!

@docker conf- The Village Hall #events @IBM @cohesiveft @Zalando @atlassian @ClusterHQ @wso2 @transloadit @tutumcloud

Please welcome our sponsor @transloadit, your one stop shop for all your file upload and processing needs: http://transloadit.com

If you're looking for a media transcoding SaaS look no further than @transloadit - a brilliant platform with awesome customer service

The guys @transloadit are absolutely fantastic when it comes to customer service, set the bar really high

Just got video transcoding with @transloadit working in ob3 - so nice

@transloadit Thanks for the awesome customer service and response time!

.@tim_kos keeps reminding me that we are over the plan limit. I know @transloadit we enjoy over paying you :p

Although we had a few snags with @transloadit they worked very hard to fix them. Talented bunch of coders over there. #greatCustomerService

Got my recipe site working with @transloadit and Amazon s3. Also running on Heroku atm. Hipster compliant cloud enabled webapp! #funfunfun

Luckily our service is supported by some great work of other teams. Including @mixpanel @sendgrid @awsstartups @transloadit You guys rock !

Awesome set of upgrades from the uploading service we use, @Transloadit - more converters, realtime admin, and more: https://transloadit.com/blog/2013/06/we-upgraded-all-the-things/

@nateabele @transloadit they rock. We've using them at @workana for over an year and haven't looked back

Man, those @transloadit guys are nuts. Big congrats on all the upgrades, gentlemen.

@transloadit awesome product and awesome support.

@transloadit Your service has saved us so much time today! Can't believe we've not used this sooner! :D Thanks!

integrated some code against http://transloadit.com/ (@transloadit) today. It's awesome, powerful and integrates with Rails like lego

Thanks to @transloadit for above and beyond support.

If you use Heroku and need to upload large files without worrying about timeout, check out @transloadit. They just saved my butt. :)

Okay @transloadit is freaking awesome.

I love @transloadit like a brother.. My #1 makes me happy service as a developer.

So impressed with @transloadit! Everything is perfect. It's a real inspiration for how to wrap a valuable service in an API and sell it.

Youtube should use @transloadit they are simply taking too much time for processing after i upload a video

trying hard to break @transloadit ... didn't work so far.

http://transloadit.com/ an amazing new service which takes care of all your site's image and video processing & storage requirements.

As someone who pretend-makes fake robots (http://angryrobotzombie.com/) I appreciate http://transloadit.com's style.

Take note: http://transloadit.com/ is really AWESOME software from an amazing team.

Ended up with a combination of http://transloadit.com/, Amazon Cloudfront and http://sublimevideo.net/ for the videos. FTW.

Dug into http://transloadit.com/ today. @felixge and crew have built something simple, elegant, powerful, and fun. I love their "robots."

recommended uploading service: @transloadit excellent service, excellent support.

The power of node.js; convert video WHILE the file is being uploaded: http://transloadit.com/blog/2010/12/realtime-encoding-over-150x-faster

Hey @YouTube, @vimeo and other video upload/sharing sites, offer @transloadit a lot of money, now, quick http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2025354