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ACDSee, Pixelboxx, KeyShot Dock (formerly Digizuite), Excire

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.

ACDSee

Yes

Pixelboxx

No

KeyShot Dock (formerly Digizuite)

No

Excire

No

Everything else

ACDSee
Pixelboxx
KeyShot Dock (formerly Digizuite)
Excire
Verdict
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.
An on-prem, cloud or hybrid DAM aimed at likely DACH-region enterprise manufacturers who need to keep data in-house, with a public review record too thin to lean on without running your own trial.
A digital asset management platform for manufacturing and AEC companies, rebranded from Digizuite in 2024, integrated with KeyShot's 3D product-visualization suite.
AI-assisted photo search and culling software for photographers with large local archives, sold as a one-time purchase that runs without uploading files to the cloud.
Price published
Yes
No
No
No
Billed on
One-off perpetual licence; a cloud subscription is sold separately
Quoted per customer
Not published. Pricing is quote-only via 'Request pricing' / 'Contact sales' on the vendor's own product page; no per-user, per-GB, or flat-rate billing unit is disclosed anywhere on the vendor's site.
One-off purchase, no subscription
Deployment
On-premise
On-premise, Cloud, Hybrid
Cloud, On-premise
On-premise
Free plan
No
No
No
No
Free trial
Yes
No
No
Yes
Transparency index
90%
20%
Not checked
60%
Most common complaint
The published prices are promotional and dated; list price is roughly double
No prices, though it does name three deployment models including fully managed on-premise
Not checked
The amount is not on the product page — it lives on the reseller’s storefront

“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.
Pixelboxx No prices, though it does name three deployment models including fully managed on-premise — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
Excire The amount is not on the product page — it lives on the reseller’s storefront — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.

No email required — the page prints as it stands.