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Optimizely, Amplience, Cloudinary, IMatch

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.

Optimizely

No

Amplience

No

Cloudinary

No

IMatch

Yes

Everything else

Optimizely
Amplience
Cloudinary
IMatch
Verdict
Not checked
Not checked
Not checked
Not checked
Price published
No
No
Yes
No
Billed on
Quoted per customer
Content volume, storage and depth of automation
Credits: one credit is 1,000 transformations, or 1 GB of storage, or 1 GB of video bandwidth
Perpetual licence, no subscription
Deployment
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
On-premise
Free plan
No
No
Yes
No
Free trial
No
No
Yes
Yes
Transparency index
0%
10%
60%
60%
Most common complaint
Not one tier and not one figure on the pricing page
Neither tiers nor ranges
Prices are published for the API but not for the DAM, so the product being compared with a DAM still has no price
Windows only, so it is out of the question for a team on Macs

“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.

Optimizely Not one tier and not one figure on the pricing page — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
Amplience Neither tiers nor ranges — 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.
IMatch Windows only, so it is out of the question for a team on Macs — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.

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