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Aprimo, Contentstack, ResourceSpace, 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 · 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.

Aprimo

No

Contentstack

No

ResourceSpace

Yes

Excire

Yes

Everything else

Aprimo
Contentstack
ResourceSpace
Excire
Verdict
An enterprise marketing-work-management platform with a bundled, AI-tagged DAM, for large brand organisations able to staff a multi-month rollout and a budget well past the list price.
An enterprise headless CMS and composable DXP for developer-led teams needing multi-channel content delivery, with a native asset-management module that's newer and thinly reviewed.
An open-licence, self-hosted DAM for teams with in-house server admin capability, trading a free licence for the time to run upgrades, tune dependencies and troubleshoot it themselves.
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
No
No
No
No
Billed on
Chosen products and number of users
Quoted per customer
Self-hosted: no licence fee. Hosted: a user ceiling per tier
One-off purchase, no subscription
Deployment
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud, On-premise
On-premise
Free plan
No
Yes
Yes
No
Free trial
No
No
No
Yes
Transparency index
10%
30%
60%
60%
Most common complaint
A modular line-up means the total is assembled from several unknowns
A free start exists, but the terms for moving to a paid tier are not on the page
The free route is genuinely free of licence fees but moves hosting, upgrades and support onto you
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.

Aprimo A modular line-up means the total is assembled from several unknowns — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
Contentstack A free start exists, but the terms for moving to a paid tier are not on the page — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
ResourceSpace The free route is genuinely free of licence fees but moves hosting, upgrades and support onto you — 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.