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Frontify, Dash, digiKam, Cloudinary

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

Dash

No

digiKam

Yes

Cloudinary

No

Everything else

Frontify
Dash
digiKam
Cloudinary
Verdict
Not checked
Not checked
Not checked
Not checked
Price published
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Billed on
Monthly active users
Flat price per account; users are unlimited, tier set by storage and downloads
Free software, no licence fee
Credits: one credit is 1,000 transformations, or 1 GB of storage, or 1 GB of video bandwidth
Deployment
Cloud
Cloud
On-premise
Cloud
Free plan
No
No
Yes
Yes
Free trial
No
No
No
Yes
Transparency index
30%
60%
100%
60%
Most common complaint
The MAU model favours occasional users, but there is no figure to verify that with
The tier is capped by download count as well as volume, which is a less familiar unit to budget against
It has no collaboration, permissions or approvals by design
Prices are published for the API but not for the DAM, so the product being compared with a DAM still has no price

“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.
Dash The tier is capped by download count as well as volume, which is a less familiar unit to budget against — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
digiKam It has no collaboration, permissions or approvals by design — 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.

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