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ResourceSpace, Cloudinary, Contentstack, Piwigo

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

Cloudinary

No

Contentstack

No

Piwigo

Yes

Everything else

ResourceSpace
Cloudinary
Contentstack
Piwigo
Verdict
Not checked
Not checked
Not checked
Not checked
Price published
No
Yes
No
Yes
Billed on
Self-hosted: no licence fee. Hosted: a user ceiling per tier
Credits: one credit is 1,000 transformations, or 1 GB of storage, or 1 GB of video bandwidth
Quoted per customer
Flat price per account by storage; users are unlimited
Deployment
Cloud, On-premise
Cloud
Cloud
On-premise, Cloud
Free plan
Yes
Yes
Yes
Yes
Free trial
No
Yes
No
Yes
Transparency index
60%
60%
30%
100%
Most common complaint
The free route is genuinely free of licence fees but moves hosting, upgrades and support onto you
Prices are published for the API but not for the DAM, so the product being compared with a DAM still has no price
A free start exists, but the terms for moving to a paid tier are not on the page
A ten per cent price rise is announced for 1 September 2026

“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.
Cloudinary Prices are published for the API but not for the DAM, so the product being compared with a DAM still has no price — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.
Contentstack A free start exists, but the terms for moving to a paid tier are not on the page — 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.

No email required — the page prints as it stands.