We built this, so yes, we have a point of view.

We still tried to make it source-backed and fair. If we got anything wrong or missed a competitor/feature, reply here and we’ll review and update it: x.com/transloadit/...

Comparing Media Processing APIs: Transloadit vs the Field | Transloadit Compare Transloadit against Cloudinary, Uploadcare, Filestack, and other file processing platforms. A feature-by-feature comparison across 101 capabilities.

Choosing a file processing platform is a sticky decision, so we built a source-backed comparison page.

101 capabilities tracked across @transloadit.com, @cloudinary.bsky.social, UploadCare, Filestack, @cloudconvert.com, and more.

Start here: transloadit.com/compare/

Agents improvise media workflows. Skills fix that. Six playbooks for Transloadit that prescribe exact CLI commands for HLS encoding, image generation, Uppy uploads, and Smart CDN. Same result every session.

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Transloadit MCP Server: agent-native uploads and processing Give AI agents the ability to upload, encode, and transform files. The Transloadit MCP Server connects Claude, Codex, Gemini, and Cursor to 86 media Robots.

86 media Robots, one MCP connection. We just shipped a production MCP server that lets Claude, Codex, Gemini, and Cursor upload files, encode video to HLS, generate images, OCR documents, and more, all through natural language. Self-hosted or hosted, it works in seconds.

Introducing our new, full-stack Convex integration for Transloadit, using Uppy. Let Convex focus on what it does best, real-time data and secure actions, while our trusty Robots do the heavy lifting.

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New: Assembly Execution Progress (experimental) adds real-time per-file status so users see what happens after upload. Enable `emit_execution_progress: true` and listen for `assembly_execution_progress`. transloadit.com/blog/2026/0...

New: Assembly Execution Progress (experimental) adds real-time per-file status so users see what happens after upload. Enable and listen for . transloadit.com/blog/2026/0...

Temporary file storage migration from S3 to R2 We're migrating temporary file storage from Amazon S3 to Cloudflare R2 to optimize costs with free egress, impacting custom purging settings for limited cases.

We're migrating temporary storage from AWS S3 -> @Cloudflare R2. Read what this means for you (spoiler: likely not much : )
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Expanding to a Hybrid Cloud with Hetzner We are building a hybrid cloud with Hetzner, AWS, and bare metal to keep larger fleets online and respond instantly to real-time demand.

Transloadit is expanding beyond AWS and adding bare metal to the mix by going Hybrid with @Hetzner_Online
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The Dev Times #94 In September 2025's installment of our monthly newsletter, we share the following news items: is-a.dev – free subdomains for developers; Broaden your horizons with Making Software; RippleJS – the best of all worlds; Node SDK v4: TypeScript-first with comprehensive Robot support; Introducing Turbo Mode for /document/thumbs

Our engineers collected another 3 interesting industry, and 2 Transloadit updates in the September 2025 edition of the DevTimes. No less, no more. Check it out: transloadit.com/blog/2025/0...

Node SDK v4: TypeScript-first with comprehensive Robot support Our Node SDK v4 introduces full TypeScript coverage, structured error handling, and modern tooling for seamless media processing in Node.js.

After 15 years of API evolution, we've retrofitted comprehensive types while preserving backward compatibility.

Try it now: npm install transloadit@4

Or read more at: transloadit.com/blog/2025/0...

🚀 Node SDK v4 is here! We've completely rebuilt it with TypeScript-first design:

✨ Full Robot definitions with autocomplete
🔧 Structured error handling with context
📦 Pure ESM, Node.js 20+ support
🛡️ Runtime validation for safer deployments with Zod

tusd is now available in Nix package manager | tus.io

Our Go server for resumable uploads, tusd, can now be installed easily via Nix, thanks to help from Niklas Hambüchen:

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In today's dogfooding episode we're running all our cute & quirky robot mugshots through our new background remover robot at @transloadit.com. This would have taken half a day previously! (now instant)

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First software development related post just to give some love to uppy.io and tus.io from @transloadit.bsky.social - working with these technologies over the past couple of days has been a great experience.