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Dash, Portfolio, HyperCMS, Uploadcare

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

Portfolio

Yes

HyperCMS

Yes

Uploadcare

No

Everything else

Dash
Portfolio
HyperCMS
Uploadcare
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.
An on-premise DAM known for deep metadata and search, for existing Portfolio users who size and maintain their own server, now under Axle AI ownership after a March 2026 acquisition.
An open-source DAM, CMS, and PIM platform combining asset, content, and product management for mid-to-large enterprises in banking, insurance, and retail.
A developer-first file upload and CDN/media-processing API for apps, pitched as a lighter, faster-to-integrate alternative to Cloudinary for teams that don't need its full DAM/video/AI stack.
Price published
Yes
No
No
Yes
Billed on
Flat price per account; users are unlimited, tier set by storage and downloads
Quoted per customer; the licensing model was preserved through the change of owner
Cloud service: billed by storage capacity (GB) plus which optional modules you select; user accounts are unlimited/uncapped. No public price list — pricing is obtained via a configurator/calculator or by requesting a quote. On-premise/hosted deployments use Free, Standard, and Enterprise license editions (feature-gated), also quote-only. A non-commercial Free Edition exists with no disclosed price.
Operations, traffic and storage, with published overage rates
Deployment
Cloud
On-premise
Cloud, On-premise
Cloud
Free plan
No
No
No
Yes
Free trial
No
No
No
No
Transparency index
60%
25%
Not checked
70%
Most common complaint
The tier is capped by download count as well as volume, which is a less familiar unit to budget against
It changed hands in March 2026, so anything written before that date describes it as an Extensis product
Not checked
The free tier is stated as personal use only

“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.
Portfolio It changed hands in March 2026, so anything written before that date describes it as an Extensis product — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
Uploadcare The free tier is stated as personal use only — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.

No email required — the page prints as it stands.