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Nextcloud, Cloudinary, ResourceSpace, MediaValet

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.

Nextcloud

Yes

Cloudinary

No

ResourceSpace

Yes

MediaValet

No

Everything else

Nextcloud
Cloudinary
ResourceSpace
MediaValet
Verdict
Not checked
Not checked
Not checked
Not checked
Price published
Yes
Yes
No
No
Billed on
Subscription per user per year, cheaper at volume
Credits: one credit is 1,000 transformations, or 1 GB of storage, or 1 GB of video bandwidth
Self-hosted: no licence fee. Hosted: a user ceiling per tier
Not per user — the vendor states unlimited users and permission groups
Deployment
On-premise, Cloud
Cloud
Cloud, On-premise
Cloud
Free plan
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Free trial
No
Yes
No
No
Transparency index
80%
60%
60%
20%
Most common complaint
It is a file platform with DAM features rather than a DAM: asset-level metadata and rights are thinner
Prices are published for the API but not for the DAM, so the product being compared with a DAM still has no price
The free route is genuinely free of licence fees but moves hosting, upgrades and support onto you
The promise not to charge per user is prominent, but there is no figure to compare it against

“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.

Nextcloud It is a file platform with DAM features rather than a DAM: asset-level metadata and rights are thinner — 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.
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.
MediaValet The promise not to charge per user is prominent, but there is no figure to compare it against — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.

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