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Phraseanet, Dash, Contentstack, Filecamp

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.

Phraseanet

Yes

Dash

No

Contentstack

No

Filecamp

No

Everything else

Phraseanet
Dash
Contentstack
Filecamp
Verdict
A free, self-hosted GPLv3 DAM used by French public-sector, cultural and broadcast institutions with in-house technical staff, now being sunset by its vendor in favor of a paid successor, Phrasea.
A cloud asset library for small-to-mid ecommerce and DTC brands, priced as a flat monthly fee with unlimited users, tiered by storage and downloads.
An enterprise headless CMS and composable DXP for developer-led teams needing multi-channel content delivery, with a native asset-management module that's newer and thinly reviewed.
A team file library billed as a flat monthly fee with unlimited users, aimed at organisations where most people only need to download an approved file a few times a month.
Price published
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Billed on
No licence fee; implementation and support services may be paid
Flat price per account; users are unlimited, tier set by storage and downloads
Quoted per customer
Flat price per account — users are not a billing unit
Deployment
On-premise
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Free plan
Yes
No
Yes
No
Free trial
No
No
No
Yes
Transparency index
90%
60%
30%
70%
Most common complaint
The product is mid-generation: Phrasea is announced to replace Phraseanet in 2026
The tier is capped by download count as well as volume, which is a less familiar unit to budget against
A free start exists, but the terms for moving to a paid tier are not on the page
Storage ceilings are modest next to enterprise platforms, so large video libraries outgrow the tiers quickly

“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.

Phraseanet The product is mid-generation: Phrasea is announced to replace Phraseanet in 2026 — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
Dash The tier is capped by download count as well as volume, which is a less familiar unit to budget against — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
Contentstack A free start exists, but the terms for moving to a paid tier are not on the page — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
Filecamp Storage ceilings are modest next to enterprise platforms, so large video libraries outgrow the tiers quickly — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.

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