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Kontainer, ResourceSpace, Frontify, Pimcore

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

ResourceSpace

Yes

Frontify

No

Pimcore

Yes

Everything else

Kontainer
ResourceSpace
Frontify
Pimcore
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 open-licence, self-hosted DAM for teams with in-house server admin capability, trading a free licence for the time to run upgrades, tune dependencies and troubleshoot it themselves.
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.
An open-source PHP/Symfony platform unifying PIM, DAM, CMS and MDM on one codebase, for teams with in-house developers or an integrator partner rather than a marketing team wanting to self-serve.
Price published
No
No
No
Yes
Billed on
Depends on configuration; several features are priced separately
Self-hosted: no licence fee. Hosted: a user ceiling per tier
Monthly active users
Annual licence per edition, not per user
Deployment
Cloud
Cloud, On-premise
Cloud
On-premise, Cloud
Free plan
No
Yes
No
Yes
Free trial
Yes
No
No
No
Transparency index
20%
60%
30%
100%
Most common complaint
Feature-level add-on pricing makes the final figure hard to anticipate before a quote
The free route is genuinely free of licence fees but moves hosting, upgrades and support onto you
The MAU model favours occasional users, but there is no figure to verify that with
It is a broader platform than a DAM — some capability has to be built rather than switched on

“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.
ResourceSpace The free route is genuinely free of licence fees but moves hosting, upgrades and support onto you — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
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.
Pimcore It is a broader platform than a DAM — some capability has to be built rather than switched on — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.

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