PhotoShelter Brands, Brandworkz, Wedia, 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”.
Everything else
Verdict
A DAM platform for brand and marketing teams, built for real-time camera-to-cloud photo and video distribution during live events.
A brand-guidelines and asset portal for mid-market marketing teams, with a genuine free tier that covers a branded guidelines page but not the full asset library or workflow tools.
A DAM, PIM-adjacent and brand-portal platform for large multi-brand enterprises (Michelin, Decathlon, Bayer-scale customers), quote-priced and built around a dedicated admin who configures it.
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
No
No
Billed on
Plan tiers differ by number of Library (admin) seats and storage (TB); unlimited invited/contributor users on every tier. No dollar figures published — all tiers show a "Get Pricing" CTA leading to a sales/demo form.
Number of users and the tier selected
Quoted per customer
Team size and storage volume
Deployment
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Free plan
No
Yes
No
No
Free trial
No
No
No
Yes
Transparency index
Not checked
40%
0%
20%
Most common complaint
Not checked
The free tier is named while the cost of the next step is not
Neither tiers nor ranges — only a form and a demo
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.
Brandworkz
The free tier is named while the cost of the next step is not — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
Wedia
Neither tiers nor ranges — only a form and a demo — 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.