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Frontify, Cloudinary, Optimizely, Storyteq

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 · Publishes a price

One of these tells you the order of magnitude before you speak to anyone, and the others do not. That difference sets how long your evaluation takes, whatever the software does.

Frontify

No

Cloudinary

Yes

Optimizely

No

Storyteq

No

Everything else

Frontify
Cloudinary
Optimizely
Storyteq
Verdict
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.
A developer-facing image and video transformation API and CDN, billed from one pooled credit balance covering storage, transformations and bandwidth together.
A DAM module bundled inside the Optimizely CMS/Content Marketing Platform/DXP, for teams already on Optimizely who don't need best-of-breed asset management, bulk operations, or metadata governance.
A template-driven creative-automation platform for producing localized video and banner ad variants at scale, with asset storage bundled in rather than offered as a standalone DAM.
Price published
No
Yes
No
No
Billed on
Monthly active users
Credits: one credit is 1,000 transformations, or 1 GB of storage, or 1 GB of video bandwidth
Quoted per customer
The set of modules required
Deployment
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Free plan
No
Yes
No
No
Free trial
No
Yes
No
No
Transparency index
30%
60%
0%
10%
Most common complaint
The MAU model favours occasional users, but there is no figure to verify that with
Prices are published for the API but not for the DAM, so the product being compared with a DAM still has no price
Not one tier and not one figure on the pricing page
Both lines are marked price on application with no ranges

“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.

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.
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.
Optimizely Not one tier and not one figure on the pricing page — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
Storyteq Both lines are marked price on application with no ranges — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.

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