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 flat-fee-per-account DAM and MAM with a free 500GB/5-user tier and unlimited paid users, for teams willing to pilot without much recent independent review evidence.
An enterprise DAM module within Adobe Experience Manager, for large organizations managing thousands to millions of brand assets across marketing channels.
A self-hosted, permission-based photo/video catalog with album hierarchies, tagging and a large plugin ecosystem, for archives and small orgs willing to maintain their own server as the library grows.
Price published
No
Yes
No
Yes
Billed on
Annual subscription covering all features, integrations, updates and support
Flat price per account by volume; the vendor states there are no per-user fees
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 by storage; users are unlimited
Deployment
Cloud, On-premise
Cloud, On-premise
Cloud, On-premise
On-premise, Cloud
Free plan
No
Yes
No
Yes
Free trial
No
Yes
No
Yes
Transparency index
30%
90%
Not checked
100%
Most common complaint
Like the platforms it competes with, it asks for a form submission before naming a price
On-premise is available only in the enterprise tier, whose price is not published
Not checked
A ten per cent price rise is announced for 1 September 2026