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Kontainer, Salsify, Cloudinary, Canto

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.

Kontainer

No

Salsify

No

Cloudinary

Yes

Canto

No

Everything else

Kontainer
Salsify
Cloudinary
Canto
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.
Not checked
A developer-facing image and video transformation API and CDN, billed from one pooled credit balance covering storage, transformations and bandwidth together.
A DAM built around search and tagging for mid-market teams, with unlimited free view-only accounts but per-seat pricing for editors that only appears after a sales quote.
Price published
No
No
Yes
No
Billed on
Depends on configuration; several features are priced separately
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
Credits: one credit is 1,000 transformations, or 1 GB of storage, or 1 GB of video bandwidth
Team size and storage volume
Deployment
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Free plan
No
No
Yes
No
Free trial
Yes
No
Yes
Yes
Transparency index
20%
Not checked
60%
20%
Most common complaint
Feature-level add-on pricing makes the final figure hard to anticipate before a quote
Not checked
Prices are published for the API but not for the DAM, so the product being compared with a DAM still has no price
The tiers are named and described 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.
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.
Canto The tiers are named and described 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.