PicaJet
Search Build shortlist

ResourceSpace, digiKam, Nextcloud, Frontify

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

digiKam

Yes

Nextcloud

Yes

Frontify

No

Everything else

ResourceSpace
digiKam
Nextcloud
Frontify
Verdict
Not checked
Not checked
Not checked
Not checked
Price published
No
Yes
Yes
No
Billed on
Self-hosted: no licence fee. Hosted: a user ceiling per tier
Free software, no licence fee
Subscription per user per year, cheaper at volume
Monthly active users
Deployment
Cloud, On-premise
On-premise
On-premise, Cloud
Cloud
Free plan
Yes
Yes
Yes
No
Free trial
No
No
No
No
Transparency index
60%
100%
80%
30%
Most common complaint
The free route is genuinely free of licence fees but moves hosting, upgrades and support onto you
It has no collaboration, permissions or approvals by design
It is a file platform with DAM features rather than a DAM: asset-level metadata and rights are thinner
The MAU model favours occasional users, but there is no figure to verify that with

“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.
digiKam It has no collaboration, permissions or approvals by design — 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.
Frontify The MAU model favours occasional users, but there is no figure to verify that with — ask them to answer this in writing before the trial.

No email required — the page prints as it stands.