Brandfolder, Acquia DAM, Wedia, Contentstack
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”.
Everything else
Verdict
A polished, search-first brand asset DAM sold standalone under Smartsheet ownership, priced for mid-market and enterprise budgets around a $24,700/year median contract.
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, PIM-adjacent and brand-portal platform for large multi-brand enterprises (Michelin, Decathlon, Bayer-scale customers), quote-priced and built around a dedicated admin who configures it.
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.
Price published
No
No
No
No
Billed on
Quoted per customer
Organisation size, user count, storage volume and feature set
Quoted per customer
Quoted per customer
Deployment
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Free plan
No
No
No
Yes
Free trial
No
Yes
No
No
Transparency index
0%
20%
0%
30%
Most common complaint
Two tiers with no figure and no trial offered on the page
Cost depends on four variables at once, none of them priced publicly
Neither tiers nor ranges — only a form and a demo
A free start exists, but the terms for moving to a paid tier are not on the page
“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.
Brandfolder
Two tiers with no figure and no trial offered on the page — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
Acquia DAM
Cost depends on four variables at once, none of them priced publicly — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
Wedia
Neither tiers nor ranges — only a form and a demo — 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.
No email required — the page prints as it stands.