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 flat-fee-per-account DAM and MAM with a free 500GB/5-user tier and unlimited paid users, for teams willing to pilot without much recent independent review evidence.
An open-source, community-governed digital repository platform on Drupal, for libraries, archives, and museums to manage digital collections.
An open-source PHP/Symfony platform unifying PIM, DAM, CMS and MDM on one codebase, for teams with in-house developers or an integrator partner rather than a marketing team wanting to self-serve.
Price published
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Billed on
Flat price per account — users are not a billing unit
Flat price per account by volume; the vendor states there are no per-user fees
No published price on islandora.ca — the core software is free open source ("free to use and always will be"). Paid options are hosting/installation/migration/support/training contracts sold by independent third-party service providers listed on islandora.ca/service-providers (e.g. Born-Digital, discoverygarden); islandora.ca itself does not publish their rates or billing units.
Annual licence per edition, not per user
Deployment
Cloud
Cloud, On-premise
On-premise, Cloud
On-premise, Cloud
Free plan
No
Yes
No
Yes
Free trial
Yes
Yes
No
No
Transparency index
70%
90%
Not checked
100%
Most common complaint
Storage ceilings are modest next to enterprise platforms, so large video libraries outgrow the tiers quickly
On-premise is available only in the enterprise tier, whose price is not published
Not checked
It is a broader platform than a DAM — some capability has to be built rather than switched on