Verdict
A flat-fee-per-account DAM and MAM with a free 500GB/5-user tier and unlimited paid users, for teams willing to pilot without much recent independent review evidence.
An enterprise brand-asset DAM built for controlled distribution to many consumers of assets, that needs a permanently staffed administrator and slows down on large files.
An enterprise DAM module within Adobe Experience Manager, for large organizations managing thousands to millions of brand assets across marketing channels.
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.
Price published
Yes
No
No
No
Billed on
Flat price per account by volume; the vendor states there are no per-user fees
Modular packages, quoted per customer
No public price list; sales quote required for both packages (Prime and Ultimate). Adobe's own on-premise product description sheet lists separate license metrics per component — AEM Assets itself is licensed 'Per Instance', 'Users' are licensed 'Per User', Brand Portal is licensed 'Per Brand Portal User', and Dynamic Media/Personalized Media are licensed by 'Page Views per month' — so billing is multi-metric and only available via custom quote, not a single flat per-user or per-GB rate.
Quoted per customer
Deployment
Cloud, On-premise
Cloud
Cloud, On-premise
On-premise, Cloud, Hybrid
Free plan
Yes
No
No
No
Free trial
Yes
No
No
No
Transparency index
90%
0%
Not checked
20%
Most common complaint
On-premise is available only in the enterprise tier, whose price is not published
No figure anywhere on the pricing page, so the order of magnitude is unknowable before a call
Not checked
No prices, though it does name three deployment models including fully managed on-premise