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Cloudinary, Aprimo, Pimcore, ResourceSpace

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.

Cloudinary

No

Aprimo

No

Pimcore

Yes

ResourceSpace

Yes

Everything else

Cloudinary
Aprimo
Pimcore
ResourceSpace
Verdict
Not checked
Not checked
Not checked
Not checked
Price published
Yes
No
Yes
No
Billed on
Credits: one credit is 1,000 transformations, or 1 GB of storage, or 1 GB of video bandwidth
Chosen products and number of users
Annual licence per edition, not per user
Self-hosted: no licence fee. Hosted: a user ceiling per tier
Deployment
Cloud
Cloud
On-premise, Cloud
Cloud, On-premise
Free plan
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Free trial
Yes
No
No
No
Transparency index
60%
10%
100%
60%
Most common complaint
Prices are published for the API but not for the DAM, so the product being compared with a DAM still has no price
A modular line-up means the total is assembled from several unknowns
It is a broader platform than a DAM — some capability has to be built rather than switched on
The free route is genuinely free of licence fees but moves hosting, upgrades and support onto you

“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.

Cloudinary Prices are published for the API but not for the DAM, so the product being compared with a DAM still has no price — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
Aprimo A modular line-up means the total is assembled from several unknowns — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
Pimcore It is a broader platform than a DAM — some capability has to be built rather than switched on — 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.

No email required — the page prints as it stands.