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Dash, Brandfolder, IMatch, Frontify

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.

Dash

No

Brandfolder

No

IMatch

Yes

Frontify

No

Everything else

Dash
Brandfolder
IMatch
Frontify
Verdict
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.
A polished, search-first brand asset DAM sold standalone under Smartsheet ownership, priced for mid-market and enterprise budgets around a $24,700/year median contract.
A Windows-only photo cataloging tool for large image libraries (50,000+ files), built by a single developer, sold as a one-time perpetual licence instead of a subscription.
A brand-management platform built around a single, always-current source of truth for guidelines, logos and templates, aimed at brand teams working with internal staff and external agencies.
Price published
Yes
No
No
No
Billed on
Flat price per account; users are unlimited, tier set by storage and downloads
Quoted per customer
Perpetual licence, no subscription
Monthly active users
Deployment
Cloud
Cloud
On-premise
Cloud
Free plan
No
No
No
No
Free trial
No
No
Yes
No
Transparency index
60%
0%
60%
30%
Most common complaint
The tier is capped by download count as well as volume, which is a less familiar unit to budget against
Two tiers with no figure and no trial offered on the page
Windows only, so it is out of the question for a team on Macs
The MAU model favours occasional users, but there is no figure to verify that with

“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.

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.
Brandfolder Two tiers with no figure and no trial offered on the 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.
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.

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