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Razuna, Piwigo, HyperCMS, Acquia DAM

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.

Razuna

Yes

Piwigo

Yes

HyperCMS

Yes

Acquia DAM

No

Everything else

Razuna
Piwigo
HyperCMS
Acquia DAM
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.
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-source DAM, CMS, and PIM platform combining asset, content, and product management for mid-to-large enterprises in banking, insurance, and retail.
A quote-only enterprise DAM (formerly Widen) built on configurable metadata and external sharing portals, for organisations already standardised on the Acquia stack.
Price published
Yes
Yes
No
No
Billed on
Flat price per account by volume; the vendor states there are no per-user fees
Flat price per account by storage; users are unlimited
Cloud service: billed by storage capacity (GB) plus which optional modules you select; user accounts are unlimited/uncapped. No public price list — pricing is obtained via a configurator/calculator or by requesting a quote. On-premise/hosted deployments use Free, Standard, and Enterprise license editions (feature-gated), also quote-only. A non-commercial Free Edition exists with no disclosed price.
Organisation size, user count, storage volume and feature set
Deployment
Cloud, On-premise
On-premise, Cloud
Cloud, On-premise
Cloud
Free plan
Yes
Yes
No
No
Free trial
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Transparency index
90%
100%
Not checked
20%
Most common complaint
On-premise is available only in the enterprise tier, whose price is not published
A ten per cent price rise is announced for 1 September 2026
Not checked
Cost depends on four variables at once, none of them priced publicly

“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.

Razuna On-premise is available only in the enterprise tier, whose price is not published — 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.
Acquia DAM Cost depends on four variables at once, none of them priced publicly — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.

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