Verdict
A DAM offered as both cloud and on-premise, aimed at small-to-mid teams that want fast metadata-driven search over large asset libraries and want files to stay on their own infrastructure.
A cloud asset library for small-to-mid ecommerce and DTC brands, priced as a flat monthly fee with unlimited users, tiered by storage and downloads.
An enterprise DAM module within Adobe Experience Manager, for large organizations managing thousands to millions of brand assets across marketing channels.
A team file library billed as a flat monthly fee with unlimited users, aimed at organisations where most people only need to download an approved file a few times a month.
Price published
No
Yes
No
Yes
Billed on
Annual subscription covering all features, integrations, updates and support
Flat price per account; users are unlimited, tier set by storage and downloads
No public price list; sales quote required for both packages (Prime and Ultimate). Adobe's own on-premise product description sheet lists separate license metrics per component — AEM Assets itself is licensed 'Per Instance', 'Users' are licensed 'Per User', Brand Portal is licensed 'Per Brand Portal User', and Dynamic Media/Personalized Media are licensed by 'Page Views per month' — so billing is multi-metric and only available via custom quote, not a single flat per-user or per-GB rate.
Flat price per account — users are not a billing unit
Deployment
Cloud, On-premise
Cloud
Cloud, On-premise
Cloud
Free plan
No
No
No
No
Free trial
No
No
No
Yes
Transparency index
30%
60%
Not checked
70%
Most common complaint
Like the platforms it competes with, it asks for a form submission before naming a price
The tier is capped by download count as well as volume, which is a less familiar unit to budget against
Not checked
Storage ceilings are modest next to enterprise platforms, so large video libraries outgrow the tiers quickly