Verdict
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 self-hosted, single-container photo indexer under AGPL/commercial licensing, for people who want a private on-hardware archive without Google-Photos-level AI tagging or mobile app polish.
A brand-management platform built around a single, always-current source of truth for guidelines, logos and templates, aimed at brand teams working with internal staff and external agencies.
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.
Price published
Yes
Yes
No
No
Billed on
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.
Subscription per edition, billed annually
Monthly active users
Self-hosted: no licence fee. Hosted: a user ceiling per tier
Deployment
Cloud
On-premise, Cloud
Cloud
Cloud, On-premise
Free plan
No
Yes
No
Yes
Free trial
No
No
No
No
Transparency index
Not checked
100%
30%
60%
Most common complaint
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The gap between the free edition and the first paid one is wide: €200 a month
The MAU model favours occasional users, but there is no figure to verify that with
The free route is genuinely free of licence fees but moves hosting, upgrades and support onto you