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ImageKit, Brandfolder, IntelligenceBank, 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 · 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.

ImageKit

Yes

Brandfolder

No

IntelligenceBank

Yes

Cloudinary

Yes

Everything else

ImageKit
Brandfolder
IntelligenceBank
Cloudinary
Verdict
Not checked
Not checked
Not checked
Not checked
Price published
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Billed on
Bandwidth, storage and user seats, with published per-unit rates above the limits
Quoted per customer
Package, number and type of users, storage and add-ons
Credits: one credit is 1,000 transformations, or 1 GB of storage, or 1 GB of video bandwidth
Deployment
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Free plan
Yes
No
No
Yes
Free trial
Yes
No
No
Yes
Transparency index
70%
0%
30%
60%
Most common complaint
Several units are metered at once: bandwidth, storage, video units and seats
Two tiers with no figure and no trial offered on the page
Only the floor of the base package is published; everything else is quoted
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.

ImageKit Several units are metered at once: bandwidth, storage, video units and seats — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
Brandfolder Two tiers with no figure and no trial offered on the page — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
IntelligenceBank Only the floor of the base package is published; everything else is quoted — 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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