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4ALLPORTAL, ACDSee, Piwigo

Side by side on what we have verified on each vendor’s own pages. Where a fact was not checked, the table says so rather than leaving a blank that reads as “no”.

What decides it · Publishes a price

One of these tells you the order of magnitude before you speak to anyone, and the others do not. That difference sets how long your evaluation takes, whatever the software does.

4ALLPORTAL

No

ACDSee

Yes

Piwigo

Yes

Everything else

4ALLPORTAL
ACDSee
Piwigo
Verdict
A DAM and PIM platform for mid-sized and enterprise companies with complex product data, not built for small teams.
A disk-native photo cataloguer and batch editor sold as a one-off perpetual licence, for photographers with large libraries who don't need Lightroom/Capture One-level RAW editing.
A self-hosted, permission-based photo/video catalog with album hierarchies, tagging and a large plugin ecosystem, for archives and small orgs willing to maintain their own server as the library grows.
Price published
No
Yes
Yes
Billed on
not disclosed — vendor states pricing is individually configured based on feature scope, integrations, hosting, and services; no per-user/per-GB/flat/credit unit is published
One-off perpetual licence; a cloud subscription is sold separately
Flat price per account by storage; users are unlimited
Deployment
Cloud, On-premise, Hybrid
On-premise
On-premise, Cloud
Free plan
No
No
Yes
Free trial
No
Yes
Yes
Transparency index
Not checked
90%
100%
Most common complaint
Not checked
The published prices are promotional and dated; list price is roughly double
A ten per cent price rise is announced for 1 September 2026

“Not checked” means exactly that: we have not verified it, not that the platform lacks it. Every other value was read off the vendor’s own pages on the date shown on each platform page.

What to ask on the demo

One question per platform, drawn from what actually goes wrong with it — not a generic checklist. Vendors run the demo; this hands the agenda back to you.

ACDSee The published prices are promotional and dated; list price is roughly double — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
Piwigo A ten per cent price rise is announced for 1 September 2026 — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.

No email required — the page prints as it stands.