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Filecamp, Cloudinary, ACDSee, 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.

Filecamp

No

Cloudinary

No

ACDSee

Yes

Frontify

No

Everything else

Filecamp
Cloudinary
ACDSee
Frontify
Verdict
A team file library billed as a flat monthly fee with unlimited users, aimed at organisations where most people only need to download an approved file a few times a month.
A developer-facing image and video transformation API and CDN, billed from one pooled credit balance covering storage, transformations and bandwidth together.
A disk-native photo cataloguer and batch editor sold as a one-off perpetual licence, for photographers with large libraries who don't need Lightroom/Capture One-level RAW editing.
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
Yes
Yes
No
Billed on
Flat price per account — users are not a billing unit
Credits: one credit is 1,000 transformations, or 1 GB of storage, or 1 GB of video bandwidth
One-off perpetual licence; a cloud subscription is sold separately
Monthly active users
Deployment
Cloud
Cloud
On-premise
Cloud
Free plan
No
Yes
No
No
Free trial
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Transparency index
70%
60%
90%
30%
Most common complaint
Storage ceilings are modest next to enterprise platforms, so large video libraries outgrow the tiers quickly
Prices are published for the API but not for the DAM, so the product being compared with a DAM still has no price
The published prices are promotional and dated; list price is roughly double
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.

Filecamp Storage ceilings are modest next to enterprise platforms, so large video libraries outgrow the tiers quickly — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
Cloudinary Prices are published for the API but not for the DAM, so the product being compared with a DAM still has no price — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
ACDSee The published prices are promotional and dated; list price is roughly double — 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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