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Cloudinary, Canto, Frontify, Dash

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.

Cloudinary

Yes

Canto

No

Frontify

No

Dash

Yes

Everything else

Cloudinary
Canto
Frontify
Dash
Verdict
Not checked
Not checked
Not checked
Not checked
Price published
Yes
No
No
Yes
Billed on
Credits: one credit is 1,000 transformations, or 1 GB of storage, or 1 GB of video bandwidth
Team size and storage volume
Monthly active users
Flat price per account; users are unlimited, tier set by storage and downloads
Deployment
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Free plan
Yes
No
No
No
Free trial
Yes
Yes
No
No
Transparency index
60%
20%
30%
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
The tiers are named and described but cannot be compared on cost
The MAU model favours occasional users, but there is no figure to verify that with
The tier is capped by download count as well as volume, which is a less familiar unit to budget against

“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.
Canto The tiers are named and described but cannot be compared on cost — 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.
Dash The tier is capped by download count as well as volume, which is a less familiar unit to budget against — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.

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