Verdict
An enterprise brand-asset DAM built for controlled distribution to many consumers of assets, that needs a permanently staffed administrator and slows down on large files.
Free, open-source, cross-platform photo cataloging software for large RAW libraries, with tagging, geotagging and duplicate detection, meant to pair with a separate RAW editor.
A cloud service for storing, resizing, optimizing and delivering images via API and CDN, aimed at developers building web and mobile apps that handle images at scale.
A team file library billed as a flat monthly fee with unlimited users, aimed at organisations where most people only need to download an approved file a few times a month.
Price published
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Billed on
Modular packages, quoted per customer
Free software, no licence fee
Storage ($5 / 100,000 images stored / month), delivery ($1 / 100,000 images delivered / month), and transformations (first 5,000 unique transformations/month free, then $0.50 / 1,000 unique transformations/month). A unique transformation is billed per distinct parameter combination (e.g. same image at 100x100 and 200x200 counts as two). Storage/delivery charges apply only to images hosted in Cloudflare Images; transforming externally-hosted images is billed only under transformations.
Flat price per account — users are not a billing unit
Deployment
Cloud
On-premise
Cloud
Cloud
Free plan
No
Yes
No
No
Free trial
No
No
No
Yes
Transparency index
0%
100%
Not checked
70%
Most common complaint
No figure anywhere on the pricing page, so the order of magnitude is unknowable before a call
It has no collaboration, permissions or approvals by design
Not checked
Storage ceilings are modest next to enterprise platforms, so large video libraries outgrow the tiers quickly