Contentstack, Acquia DAM, Cloudinary, Razuna

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.

Contentstack

Acquia DAM

Cloudinary

Razuna

Yes

Everything else

Contentstack

Acquia DAM

Cloudinary

Razuna

Verdict

Not checked

Price published

Yes

Billed on

Quoted per customer

Organisation size, user count, storage volume and feature set

Credits: one credit is 1,000 transformations, or 1 GB of storage, or 1 GB of video bandwidth

Flat price per account by volume; the vendor states there are no per-user fees

Deployment

Cloud

Cloud, On-premise

Free plan

Yes

Free trial

Yes

Transparency index

30%

20%

60%

90%

Most common complaint

A free start exists, but the terms for moving to a paid tier are not on the page

Cost depends on four variables at once, none of them priced publicly

Prices are published for the API but not for the DAM, so the product being compared with a DAM still has no price

On-premise is available only in the enterprise tier, whose price is not published

“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.

Contentstack A free start exists, but the terms for moving to a paid tier are not on the page — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.

Acquia DAM Cost depends on four variables at once, none of them priced publicly — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.

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.

Razuna On-premise is available only in the enterprise tier, whose price is not published — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.

No email required — the page prints as it stands.