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Pixelboxx, Piwigo, ResourceSpace, Nextcloud

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 · Publishes a price

One of these tells you the order of magnitude before you speak to anyone, and the others do not. That difference sets how long your evaluation takes, whatever the software does.

Pixelboxx

No

Piwigo

Yes

ResourceSpace

No

Nextcloud

Yes

Everything else

Pixelboxx
Piwigo
ResourceSpace
Nextcloud
Verdict
An on-prem, cloud or hybrid DAM aimed at likely DACH-region enterprise manufacturers who need to keep data in-house, with a public review record too thin to lean on without running your own trial.
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 open-licence, self-hosted DAM for teams with in-house server admin capability, trading a free licence for the time to run upgrades, tune dependencies and troubleshoot it themselves.
A self-hosted file-sync and collaboration platform some organisations stretch into asset-library duty; tagging, batch metadata editing and dynamic tag-based collections are still limited or missing.
Price published
No
Yes
No
Yes
Billed on
Quoted per customer
Flat price per account by storage; users are unlimited
Self-hosted: no licence fee. Hosted: a user ceiling per tier
Subscription per user per year, cheaper at volume
Deployment
On-premise, Cloud, Hybrid
On-premise, Cloud
Cloud, On-premise
On-premise, Cloud
Free plan
No
Yes
Yes
Yes
Free trial
No
Yes
No
No
Transparency index
20%
100%
60%
80%
Most common complaint
No prices, though it does name three deployment models including fully managed on-premise
A ten per cent price rise is announced for 1 September 2026
The free route is genuinely free of licence fees but moves hosting, upgrades and support onto you
It is a file platform with DAM features rather than a DAM: asset-level metadata and rights are thinner

“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.

Pixelboxx No prices, though it does name three deployment models including fully managed on-premise — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
Piwigo A ten per cent price rise is announced for 1 September 2026 — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
ResourceSpace The free route is genuinely free of licence fees but moves hosting, upgrades and support onto you — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
Nextcloud It is a file platform with DAM features rather than a DAM: asset-level metadata and rights are thinner — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.

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