imagecompressor.cloud vs. Smallpdf — Which Should You Use?
Smallpdf is a polished, widely-used PDF toolkit with genuinely good structured data on its own pages — it's one of the more technically solid competitors in this space. Where it has a real, verifiable gap is image compression: Smallpdf has no standalone image compressor at all.
The only way to shrink an image on Smallpdf is indirect: convert it to a PDF, compress that PDF, then export back to an image. imagecompressor.cloud compresses images directly, plus runs its PDF tools in your browser rather than on a server.
| This site | Smallpdf | |
|---|---|---|
| Where processing happens | In your browser for compression, merging, splitting and PDF↔image conversion (Office-format conversion is the one exception, and uses a server) | On Smallpdf's servers |
| Compress an image directly? | Yes — dedicated image compressor | No — only indirectly, by converting to PDF first, compressing, then exporting back |
| Pricing | Free | Free tier, plus paid Pro/Team subscriptions with a 7-day trial |
| Account required | No | No for the free tier |
| Structured data | Organization, WebSite, SoftwareApplication, FAQPage and Breadcrumb markup | FAQPage, Breadcrumb, Organization and WebSite markup — one of the more complete implementations we checked |
Give Smallpdf credit where it's due: solid product, solid technical SEO. But if you came here to compress an image, Smallpdf genuinely can't do that in one step — and if you'd rather your PDF never touched a server at all, this site is built around that instead.