Razuna, Piwigo, 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”.
Everything else
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.
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
Yes
Yes
Yes
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
Subscription per user per year, cheaper at volume
Deployment
Cloud, On-premise
On-premise, Cloud
On-premise, Cloud
Free plan
Yes
Yes
Yes
Free trial
Yes
Yes
No
Transparency index
90%
100%
80%
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
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.
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.
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.
No email required — the page prints as it stands.