ResourceSpace, Bynder, Bunny.net, Brandworkz

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.

ResourceSpace

Yes

Bynder

Bunny.net

Brandworkz

Everything else

ResourceSpace

Bynder

Bunny.net

Brandworkz

Verdict

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.

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.

A CDN and edge-computing platform bundling storage, video streaming, DNS and image optimization, aimed at developers and cost-conscious teams as an alternative to larger CDN providers.

A brand-guidelines and asset portal for mid-market marketing teams, with a genuine free tier that covers a branded guidelines page but not the full asset library or workflow tools.

Price published

Yes

Billed on

Self-hosted: no licence fee. Hosted: a user ceiling per tier

Modular packages, quoted per customer

Primarily pay-as-you-go per GB of bandwidth/storage (CDN from $0.01/GB standard, volume network from $0.005/GB down to $0.002/GB; Storage from $0.01/GB standard tier, $0.02/GB edge SSD tier; Stream storage from $0.01/GB and CDN from $0.005/GB), with a $1/month account minimum. Bunny Optimizer is a flat $9.50/month per website (unlimited optimizations). No per-request fees. Enterprise-scale volume (above 2PB) requires contacting sales.

Number of users and the tier selected

Deployment

Cloud, On-premise

Cloud

Free plan

Yes

Free trial

Transparency index

60%

Not checked

40%

Most common complaint

The free route is genuinely free of licence fees but moves hosting, upgrades and support onto you

No figure anywhere on the pricing page, so the order of magnitude is unknowable before a call

Not checked

The free tier is named while the cost of the next step is not

“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.

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.

Bynder No figure anywhere on the pricing page, so the order of magnitude is unknowable before a call — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.

Brandworkz The free tier is named while the cost of the next step is not — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.

No email required — the page prints as it stands.