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 self-hosted, permission-based photo/video catalog with album hierarchies, tagging and a large plugin ecosystem, for archives and small orgs willing to maintain their own server as the library grows.
A DAM and PIM platform for mid-sized and enterprise companies with complex product data, not built for small teams.
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.
Price published
No
Yes
No
Yes
Billed on
Self-hosted: no licence fee. Hosted: a user ceiling per tier
Flat price per account by storage; users are unlimited
not disclosed — vendor states pricing is individually configured based on feature scope, integrations, hosting, and services; no per-user/per-GB/flat/credit unit is published
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.
Deployment
Cloud, On-premise
On-premise, Cloud
Cloud, On-premise, Hybrid
Cloud
Free plan
Yes
Yes
No
No
Free trial
No
Yes
No
No
Transparency index
60%
100%
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Most common complaint
The free route is genuinely free of licence fees but moves hosting, upgrades and support onto you
A ten per cent price rise is announced for 1 September 2026
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