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Frontify, Cloudinary, Razuna, Papirfly

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.

Frontify

No

Cloudinary

No

Razuna

Yes

Papirfly

No

Everything else

Frontify
Cloudinary
Razuna
Papirfly
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 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.
A DAM with built-in templated content production, for multi-market or franchise brands whose local offices need to self-serve on-brand assets without looping in central design.
Price published
No
Yes
Yes
No
Billed on
Monthly active users
Credits: one credit is 1,000 transformations, or 1 GB of storage, or 1 GB of video bandwidth
Flat price per account by volume; the vendor states there are no per-user fees
The set of solutions chosen
Deployment
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud, On-premise
Cloud
Free plan
No
Yes
Yes
No
Free trial
No
Yes
Yes
No
Transparency index
30%
60%
90%
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
On-premise is available only in the enterprise tier, whose price is not published
A twelve-month minimum commitment at a price you cannot know in advance

“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.
Razuna On-premise is available only in the enterprise tier, whose price is not published — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
Papirfly A twelve-month minimum commitment at a price you cannot know in advance — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.

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