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Excire, Nextcloud, 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.

Excire

Yes

Nextcloud

Yes

Frontify

No

Everything else

Excire
Nextcloud
Frontify
Verdict
Not checked
Not checked
Not checked
Price published
No
Yes
No
Billed on
One-off purchase, no subscription
Subscription per user per year, cheaper at volume
Monthly active users
Deployment
On-premise
On-premise, Cloud
Cloud
Free plan
No
Yes
No
Free trial
Yes
No
No
Transparency index
60%
80%
30%
Most common complaint
The amount is not on the product page — it lives on the reseller’s storefront
It is a file platform with DAM features rather than a DAM: asset-level metadata and rights are thinner
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.

Excire The amount is not on the product page — it lives on the reseller’s storefront — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
Nextcloud It is a file platform with DAM features rather than a DAM: asset-level metadata and rights are thinner — 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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