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Acquia DAM, 4ALLPORTAL, Cloudinary, Akeneo

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.

Acquia DAM

No

4ALLPORTAL

Yes

Cloudinary

No

Akeneo

Yes

Everything else

Acquia DAM
4ALLPORTAL
Cloudinary
Akeneo
Verdict
A quote-only enterprise DAM (formerly Widen) built on configurable metadata and external sharing portals, for organisations already standardised on the Acquia stack.
A DAM and PIM platform for mid-sized and enterprise companies with complex product data, not built for small teams.
A developer-facing image and video transformation API and CDN, billed from one pooled credit balance covering storage, transformations and bandwidth together.
A PIM platform with a built-in DAM module, used by manufacturing and ecommerce companies to manage product data and assets; also available as a free open-source Community Edition.
Price published
No
No
Yes
No
Billed on
Organisation size, user count, storage volume and feature set
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
Credits: one credit is 1,000 transformations, or 1 GB of storage, or 1 GB of video bandwidth
No genuine dollar pricing is published. The vendor's package-comparison page lists four tiers: Community Edition (free, open-source, self-hosted), Growth (SaaS, shown only as "Starting at $0 Annually" with a free-trial CTA — no real recurring price disclosed), Advanced and Premium (both "Call for a quote"). No billing unit (per user, per SKU, per asset, per GB) is stated anywhere on the site for the paid tiers.
Deployment
Cloud
Cloud, On-premise, Hybrid
Cloud
Cloud, On-premise
Free plan
No
No
Yes
No
Free trial
Yes
No
Yes
No
Transparency index
20%
Not checked
60%
Not checked
Most common complaint
Cost depends on four variables at once, none of them priced publicly
Not checked
Prices are published for the API but not for the DAM, so the product being compared with a DAM still has no price
Not checked

“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.

Acquia DAM Cost depends on four variables at once, none of them priced publicly — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
Cloudinary Prices are published for the API but not for the DAM, so the product being compared with a DAM still has no price — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.

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