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Contentstack, Cloudinary, Mylio, IMatch

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

No

Cloudinary

No

Mylio

Yes

IMatch

Yes

Everything else

Contentstack
Cloudinary
Mylio
IMatch
Verdict
Not checked
Not checked
Not checked
Not checked
Price published
No
Yes
No
No
Billed on
Quoted per customer
Credits: one credit is 1,000 transformations, or 1 GB of storage, or 1 GB of video bandwidth
Personal, Family and Business plans; no amounts on the page
Perpetual licence, no subscription
Deployment
Cloud
Cloud
On-premise, Cloud
On-premise
Free plan
Yes
Yes
No
No
Free trial
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Transparency index
30%
60%
50%
60%
Most common complaint
A free start exists, but the terms for moving to a paid tier are not on the page
Prices are published for the API but not for the DAM, so the product being compared with a DAM still has no price
Three plans are named and none is priced on the pricing page
Windows only, so it is out of the question for a team on Macs

“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.
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.
Mylio Three plans are named and none is priced on the pricing page — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
IMatch Windows only, so it is out of the question for a team on Macs — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.

No email required — the page prints as it stands.