PicaJet
Search Build shortlist

Kontainer, Contentstack, digiKam, Lytho

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.

Kontainer

No

Contentstack

No

digiKam

Yes

Lytho

No

Everything else

Kontainer
Contentstack
digiKam
Lytho
Verdict
A Nordic/European DAM, with optional PIM, aimed at mid-market brand, retail and ecommerce teams wanting fast onboarding without heavy IT involvement, backed by a 30-day no-commitment trial.
An enterprise headless CMS and composable DXP for developer-led teams needing multi-channel content delivery, with a native asset-management module that's newer and thinly reviewed.
Free, open-source, cross-platform photo cataloging software for large RAW libraries, with tagging, geotagging and duplicate detection, meant to pair with a separate RAW editor.
A combined creative-operations platform pairing brand-portal DAM with proofing and approval workflows, for in-house teams that want both under one roof rather than a DAM-only search specialist.
Price published
No
No
Yes
No
Billed on
Depends on configuration; several features are priced separately
Quoted per customer
Free software, no licence fee
Team size, product mix and configuration
Deployment
Cloud
Cloud
On-premise
Cloud
Free plan
No
Yes
Yes
No
Free trial
Yes
No
No
No
Transparency index
20%
30%
100%
10%
Most common complaint
Feature-level add-on pricing makes the final figure hard to anticipate before a quote
A free start exists, but the terms for moving to a paid tier are not on the page
It has no collaboration, permissions or approvals by design
The tiers are named but cannot be compared on cost

“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.

Kontainer Feature-level add-on pricing makes the final figure hard to anticipate before a quote — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
Contentstack A free start exists, but the terms for moving to a paid tier are not on the page — 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.
Lytho The tiers are named but cannot be compared on cost — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.

No email required — the page prints as it stands.