Canto, ImageKit, Frontify

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.

Canto

ImageKit

Yes

Frontify

Everything else

Canto

ImageKit

Frontify

Verdict

Not checked

Price published

Yes

Billed on

Team size and storage volume

Bandwidth, storage and user seats, with published per-unit rates above the limits

Monthly active users

Deployment

Cloud

Free plan

Yes

Free trial

Yes

Transparency index

20%

70%

30%

Most common complaint

The tiers are named and described but cannot be compared on cost

Several units are metered at once: bandwidth, storage, video units and seats

The MAU model favours occasional users, but there is no figure to verify that with

“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.

Canto The tiers are named and described but cannot be compared on cost — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.

ImageKit Several units are metered at once: bandwidth, storage, video units and seats — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.

Frontify The MAU model favours occasional users, but there is no figure to verify that with — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.

No email required — the page prints as it stands.