Transloadit is a Media Processing as a Service (MPaaS) platform that automates complex workflows for video encoding, image resizing, audio transcoding, and document conversion via a developer-friendly API. Its key differentiators include parallel processing, customizable templates, and robust error handling, which reduce infrastructure burden and development time for engineering teams. The company is also the creator of the open-source projects Tus (resumable uploads) and Uppy (file uploads), which have become widely adopted standards in the file-handling ecosystem. Transloadit allocates a portion of its revenue to open-source development, further distinguishing it as a community-driven vendor in the cloud media processing space.
Make videos play everywhere with MP4, WebM, HLS, and DASH outputs, turbo mode, adaptive streaming, on-demand encoding, thumbnails, captions, previews, watermarks, and brand overlays.
Turn audio into product-ready assets with MP3, WAV, AAC, and FLAC outputs, extract audio, trim, merge, normalize tracks, waveform previews, consistent bitrate and sample rate, and speech transcription.
Ship fast, clean, responsive images with HEIC, PNG, JPEG, WebP, and AVIF conversion, lossless optimization, crop, rotate, center user uploads, background removal, watermarks, and overlays.
Add AI decisions to media pipelines with describe, classify, tag media, structured outputs, caption and text translation, AI-assisted moderation, image generation, and prompt-to-workflow setup.
Make documents previewable and searchable with Office and PDF conversion, OCR for scans, forms, and PDFs, page thumbnails, text and metadata extraction, split, merge, route, and consistent output files.
Stop bad uploads with virus scanning, unsafe content detection, reject files, quarantine suspicious files, filter images, videos, docs, and archives, and publish only clean results.
Route files through your business rules with conditional pipelines, validate inputs, call webhooks, branch uploads, keep workflow state, and automate product logic.
Know what is inside every file by extracting dimensions, codecs, EXIF, and metadata, classify files, generate searchable tags, create previews, enrich DAM, PIM, CMS, and database records, and send metadata via webhooks.
Safely unpack and process files with ZIP, RAR, 7-Zip, and TAR extraction, defend against unsafe archives, process images, docs, and videos, preserve folders and filenames, bundle processed results, and route archive contents.
