Enable flexible variants

Flexible variants allow you to create variants with dynamic resizing which can provide more options than regular variants allow. This option is not enabled by default.

​​ Enable flexible variants via the Cloudflare dashboard

1. Log in to the Cloudflare dashboard Open external link and select your account.
2. Select Images > Variants.
3. Enable Flexible variants.

​​ Enable flexible variants via the API

Make a PATCH request to the Update a variant endpoint Open API docs link .

curl --request PATCH https://api.cloudflare.com/client/v4/accounts/{account_id}/images/v1/config \
--header "Authorization: Bearer <API_TOKEN>" \
--header "Content-Type: application/json" \
--data '{"flexible_variants": true}'

After activation, you can use transformation parameters on any Cloudflare image. For example,

https://imagedelivery.net/{account_hash}/{image_id}/w=400,sharpen=3

Note that flexible variants cannot be used for images that require a signed delivery URL.