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Frontify, Daminion, HyperCMS, 4ALLPORTAL

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

Daminion

Yes

HyperCMS

Yes

4ALLPORTAL

Yes

Everything else

Frontify
Daminion
HyperCMS
4ALLPORTAL
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 DAM offered as both cloud and on-premise, aimed at small-to-mid teams that want fast metadata-driven search over large asset libraries and want files to stay on their own infrastructure.
An open-source DAM, CMS, and PIM platform combining asset, content, and product management for mid-to-large enterprises in banking, insurance, and retail.
A DAM and PIM platform for mid-sized and enterprise companies with complex product data, not built for small teams.
Price published
No
No
No
No
Billed on
Monthly active users
Annual subscription covering all features, integrations, updates and support
Cloud service: billed by storage capacity (GB) plus which optional modules you select; user accounts are unlimited/uncapped. No public price list — pricing is obtained via a configurator/calculator or by requesting a quote. On-premise/hosted deployments use Free, Standard, and Enterprise license editions (feature-gated), also quote-only. A non-commercial Free Edition exists with no disclosed price.
not disclosed — vendor states pricing is individually configured based on feature scope, integrations, hosting, and services; no per-user/per-GB/flat/credit unit is published
Deployment
Cloud
Cloud, On-premise
Cloud, On-premise
Cloud, On-premise, Hybrid
Free plan
No
No
No
No
Free trial
No
No
No
No
Transparency index
30%
30%
Not checked
Not checked
Most common complaint
The MAU model favours occasional users, but there is no figure to verify that with
Like the platforms it competes with, it asks for a form submission before naming a price
Not checked
Not checked

“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.
Daminion Like the platforms it competes with, it asks for a form submission before naming a price — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.

No email required — the page prints as it stands.