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Dash, Lytho, Pixelboxx, 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

Lytho

No

Pixelboxx

Yes

Frontify

No

Everything else

Dash
Lytho
Pixelboxx
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 combined creative-operations platform pairing brand-portal DAM with proofing and approval workflows, for in-house teams that want both under one roof rather than a DAM-only search specialist.
An on-prem, cloud or hybrid DAM aimed at likely DACH-region enterprise manufacturers who need to keep data in-house, with a public review record too thin to lean on without running your own trial.
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
Team size, product mix and configuration
Quoted per customer
Monthly active users
Deployment
Cloud
Cloud
On-premise, Cloud, Hybrid
Cloud
Free plan
No
No
No
No
Free trial
No
No
No
No
Transparency index
60%
10%
20%
30%
Most common complaint
The tier is capped by download count as well as volume, which is a less familiar unit to budget against
The tiers are named but cannot be compared on cost
No prices, though it does name three deployment models including fully managed on-premise
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.
Lytho The tiers are named but cannot be compared on cost — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
Pixelboxx No prices, though it does name three deployment models including fully managed on-premise — 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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