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 on-premise DAM known for deep metadata and search, for existing Portfolio users who size and maintain their own server, now under Axle AI ownership after a March 2026 acquisition.
A cloud service for storing, resizing, optimizing and delivering images via API and CDN, aimed at developers building web and mobile apps that handle images at scale.
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.
Price published
Yes
No
Yes
No
Billed on
Flat price per account by volume; the vendor states there are no per-user fees
Quoted per customer; the licensing model was preserved through the change of owner
Storage ($5 / 100,000 images stored / month), delivery ($1 / 100,000 images delivered / month), and transformations (first 5,000 unique transformations/month free, then $0.50 / 1,000 unique transformations/month). A unique transformation is billed per distinct parameter combination (e.g. same image at 100x100 and 200x200 counts as two). Storage/delivery charges apply only to images hosted in Cloudflare Images; transforming externally-hosted images is billed only under transformations.
Self-hosted: no licence fee. Hosted: a user ceiling per tier
Deployment
Cloud, On-premise
On-premise
Cloud
Cloud, On-premise
Free plan
Yes
No
No
Yes
Free trial
Yes
No
No
No
Transparency index
90%
25%
Not checked
60%
Most common complaint
On-premise is available only in the enterprise tier, whose price is not published
It changed hands in March 2026, so anything written before that date describes it as an Extensis product
Not checked
The free route is genuinely free of licence fees but moves hosting, upgrades and support onto you