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Photo Mechanic, NetX, Salsify, WoodWing Assets

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.

Photo Mechanic

Yes

NetX

Yes

Salsify

No

WoodWing Assets

Yes

Everything else

Photo Mechanic
NetX
Salsify
WoodWing Assets
Verdict
A RAW/JPEG ingest and culling tool for photojournalists, sports and wedding shooters processing large batches fast, before handing files to Lightroom, Capture One or a DAM.
A digital asset management platform for enterprises, agencies, museums, and nonprofits, paired with in-house consulting and data-migration services.
A product experience management (PXM) platform for brands and manufacturers that centralizes and syndicates product data to retail and ecommerce channels.
An enterprise digital asset management platform for newsrooms, publishers, museums, agencies, and manufacturers to organize and distribute digital assets.
Price published
No
No
No
No
Billed on
Not verified: the product page carries no price and the store pages checked returned 404
Not disclosed publicly. Plans are differentiated by number of admin users, storage (TB), and number of portals (e.g. Essential: 5 admin users/1TB; Signature: 20 admin users/2TB/3 portals; Premium: 50 admin users/5TB/5 portals); exact per-unit or per-tier prices are not published, visitors must request a consult.
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
Not disclosed publicly. Pricing page shows three tiers (Starter, Advanced, Ultimate) all gated behind "Request a quote", billed annually; no per-user, per-GB, or credit figures are shown, so the actual billing unit cannot be confirmed from the vendor's site.
Deployment
On-premise
Cloud, On-premise, Hybrid
Cloud
Cloud, On-premise
Free plan
No
No
No
No
Free trial
No
No
No
No
Transparency index
100%
Not checked
Not checked
Not checked
Most common complaint
Cataloguing is secondary here — it is a fast browser for shoots
Not checked
Not checked
Not checked

“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.

Photo Mechanic Cataloguing is secondary here — it is a fast browser for shoots — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.

No email required — the page prints as it stands.