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Frontify, Photo Mechanic, Salsify, Razuna

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

Photo Mechanic

Yes

Salsify

No

Razuna

Yes

Everything else

Frontify
Photo Mechanic
Salsify
Razuna
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 RAW/JPEG ingest and culling tool for photojournalists, sports and wedding shooters processing large batches fast, before handing files to Lightroom, Capture One or a DAM.
A product experience management (PXM) platform for brands and manufacturers that centralizes and syndicates product data to retail and ecommerce channels.
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.
Price published
No
No
No
Yes
Billed on
Monthly active users
Not verified: the product page carries no price and the store pages checked returned 404
Not disclosed publicly — pricing page routes to Request Demo / Contact Sales only, no tiers, per-SKU/per-user/per-asset pricing, or plan names shown
Flat price per account by volume; the vendor states there are no per-user fees
Deployment
Cloud
On-premise
Cloud
Cloud, On-premise
Free plan
No
No
No
Yes
Free trial
No
No
No
Yes
Transparency index
30%
100%
Not checked
90%
Most common complaint
The MAU model favours occasional users, but there is no figure to verify that with
Cataloguing is secondary here — it is a fast browser for shoots
Not checked
On-premise is available only in the enterprise tier, whose price is not published

“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.
Photo Mechanic Cataloguing is secondary here — it is a fast browser for shoots — 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.

No email required — the page prints as it stands.