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Piwigo, Contentstack, IntelligenceBank, Lytho

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.

Piwigo

Yes

Contentstack

No

IntelligenceBank

No

Lytho

No

Everything else

Piwigo
Contentstack
IntelligenceBank
Lytho
Verdict
A self-hosted, permission-based photo/video catalog with album hierarchies, tagging and a large plugin ecosystem, for archives and small orgs willing to maintain their own server as the library grows.
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 compliance-focused DAM with built-in audit trails and multi-stage approval workflows, aimed at regulated industries like pharma, finance, insurance and franchise/multi-brand marketing teams.
A combined creative-operations platform pairing brand-portal DAM with proofing and approval workflows, for in-house teams that want both under one roof rather than a DAM-only search specialist.
Price published
Yes
No
Yes
No
Billed on
Flat price per account by storage; users are unlimited
Quoted per customer
Package, number and type of users, storage and add-ons
Team size, product mix and configuration
Deployment
On-premise, Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Free plan
Yes
Yes
No
No
Free trial
Yes
No
No
No
Transparency index
100%
30%
30%
10%
Most common complaint
A ten per cent price rise is announced for 1 September 2026
A free start exists, but the terms for moving to a paid tier are not on the page
Only the floor of the base package is published; everything else is quoted
The tiers are named 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.

Piwigo A ten per cent price rise is announced for 1 September 2026 — 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.
IntelligenceBank Only the floor of the base package is published; everything else is quoted — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
Lytho The tiers are named but cannot be compared on cost — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.

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