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Optimizely, digiKam, Cloudinary, Frontify

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

digiKam

Yes

Cloudinary

No

Frontify

No

Everything else

Optimizely
digiKam
Cloudinary
Frontify
Verdict
Not checked
Not checked
Not checked
Not checked
Price published
No
Yes
Yes
No
Billed on
Quoted per customer
Free software, no licence fee
Credits: one credit is 1,000 transformations, or 1 GB of storage, or 1 GB of video bandwidth
Monthly active users
Deployment
Cloud
On-premise
Cloud
Cloud
Free plan
No
Yes
Yes
No
Free trial
No
No
Yes
No
Transparency index
0%
100%
60%
30%
Most common complaint
Not one tier and not one figure on the pricing page
It has no collaboration, permissions or approvals by design
Prices are published for the API but not for the DAM, so the product being compared with a DAM still has no price
The MAU model favours occasional users, but there is no figure to verify that with

“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.
digiKam It has no collaboration, permissions or approvals by design — 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.
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.

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