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 DAM for large consumer-goods and retail brands sold through direct sales relationships, with no meaningful footprint on G2, Capterra or TrustRadius to cross-check claims against.
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.
A team file library billed as a flat monthly fee with unlimited users, aimed at organisations where most people only need to download an approved file a few times a month.
Price published
No
No
Yes
Yes
Billed on
Self-hosted: no licence fee. Hosted: a user ceiling per tier
Quoted per customer
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.
Flat price per account — users are not a billing unit
Deployment
Cloud, On-premise
Cloud
Cloud
Cloud
Free plan
Yes
No
No
No
Free trial
No
No
No
Yes
Transparency index
60%
0%
Not checked
70%
Most common complaint
The free route is genuinely free of licence fees but moves hosting, upgrades and support onto you
No price anywhere on the site — only a demo
Not checked
Storage ceilings are modest next to enterprise platforms, so large video libraries outgrow the tiers quickly