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ResourceSpace, Cloudinary, Salsify, Air

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

Salsify

No

Air

No

Everything else

ResourceSpace
Cloudinary
Salsify
Air
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.
A developer-facing image and video transformation API and CDN, billed from one pooled credit balance covering storage, transformations and bandwidth together.
Not checked
A visually organized, board-based DAM for photo/image-heavy creative and marketing teams, with a genuinely usable free tier and a history of shifting, steep paid-tier pricing.
Price published
No
Yes
No
No
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
Not disclosed publicly — pricing page routes to Request Demo / Contact Sales only, no tiers, per-SKU/per-user/per-asset pricing, or plan names shown
Credits; users are not billed
Deployment
Cloud, On-premise
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Free plan
Yes
Yes
No
Yes
Free trial
No
Yes
No
Yes
Transparency index
60%
60%
Not checked
60%
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
Not checked
The free tier is described in detail while the paid tiers are named only

“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.
Air The free tier is described in detail while the paid tiers are named only — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.

No email required — the page prints as it stands.