PicaJet
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ACDSee, ImageKit

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 · Runs on your own servers

If the files genuinely cannot leave your infrastructure, this is not a close race — the platforms marked No below should not be on the call at all.

ACDSee

Yes

ImageKit

No

Everything else

ACDSee
ImageKit
Verdict
Not checked
Not checked
Price published
Yes
Yes
Billed on
One-off perpetual licence; a cloud subscription is sold separately
Bandwidth, storage and user seats, with published per-unit rates above the limits
Deployment
On-premise
Cloud
Free plan
No
Yes
Free trial
Yes
Yes
Transparency index
90%
70%
Most common complaint
The published prices are promotional and dated; list price is roughly double
Several units are metered at once: bandwidth, storage, video units and seats

“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.
ImageKit Several units are metered at once: bandwidth, storage, video units and seats — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.

No email required — the page prints as it stands.