DAM platform profile

NetX: DAM software reviewed

A digital asset management platform for enterprises, agencies, museums, and nonprofits, paired with in-house consulting and data-migration services.

Verdict

Reviewers consistently praise metadata search and onboarding, but flag weaker workflows for large video files.

Published price

Not disclosed publicly. Plans are differentiated by number of admin users, storage (TB), and number of portals (e.g. Essential: 5 admin users/1TB; Signature: 20 admin users/2TB/3 portals; Premium: 50 admin users/5TB/5 portals); exact per-unit or per-tier prices are not published, visitors must request a consult.

Deployment

Cloud, On-premise, Hybrid

can run on your own servers

Last verified

19 Aug 2026

on the vendor’s own pages

Buy it if

You need a DAM with strong cultural-institution/museum pedigree (MoMA, The Met, SFMoMA cited as customers) or fit one of NetX's named verticals (higher ed, government, agencies, manufacturing, nonprofits, construction/AEC, professional/collegiate sports), want a choice of cloud, on-premise, or hybrid deployment, and are fine with a quote-only sales process plus expert-led onboarding.

Do not buy it if

You need transparent self-serve pricing before talking to sales, need capabilities NetX does not document publicly (no stated GIS/mapping, CAD-file, RAW-format, 3D-asset, offline-access, or C2PA/content-authenticity features), or need a vendor with dedicated pages for healthcare, ecommerce, newsroom, or photographer use cases.

Where it is strong

Offers cloud, on-premise and hybrid deployment instead of forcing a SaaS-only footprint — Vendor site and pricing page (netx.net/pricing)
Names museum deployments outright — MoMA, The Met and SFMoMA appear as customers — Vendor customer pages
Metadata modelling and search are the capability reviewers single out most consistently — G2, 60 reviews (recurring themes)
Onboarding and data migration are delivered by the vendor's own consultants rather than resold to a partner — Vendor services pages
Sits at 4.6/5 on G2 across 60 reviews, with aggregator listings landing in the same 4.6-4.7 band — G2, 60 reviews; SaaSWorthy, 39; SpotSaas, 84

Where it is weak

Quote-only pricing: the pricing page carries plan names and 'request a consult' buttons but no figures — Vendor pricing page (netx.net/pricing)
Workflow handling of large video files is the recurring weak spot raised across review sources — G2 and aggregator review themes
No verified-tier listing exists at all — Gartner Peer Insights, TrustRadius and PeerSpot each returned nothing for NetX DAM — Gartner Peer Insights / TrustRadius / PeerSpot searches
PeerSpot's indexed 'NetX' entry is actually NetXMS, a network monitor, and is easy to mistake for DAM evidence — PeerSpot listing
No GIS, CAD, RAW, 3D-asset, offline-access or C2PA capability is documented on the vendor's site — Vendor site feature pages

Checkable facts

Published price No

Billed on Not disclosed publicly. Plans are differentiated by number of admin users, storage (TB), and number of portals (e.g. Essential: 5 admin users/1TB; Signature: 20 admin users/2TB/3 portals; Premium: 50 admin users/5TB/5 portals); exact per-unit or per-tier prices are not published, visitors must request a consult.

Free plan No

Free trial No

Product signals

Formats supported NetX states it accepts and securely stores files of any format, with upload/organization support explicitly called out for images, videos, audio files, documents, and creative assets within a single DAM environment. Proxy/thumbnail generation and derivative repurposing, however, are limited to a specific list of formats depending on which transcoding engines are installed (NetX partners with third-party engines including Telestream, MediaRich, and Adobe for format conversion); the exact per-format proxy/transcode matrix lives behind a support-portal article that returned 403 to automated fetch in this session and could not be enumerated directly.

Integrations Native/partner integrations named on NetX's own integrations page: CI HUB connector (a native plugin surfacing the DAM inside Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects, InCopy, plus Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Figma, Sketch, WordPress, SharePoint, Asana, Trello); a direct Adobe Creative Cloud connector (Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects, InCopy) with a 'Place Gun' for dragging assets into InDesign layouts and automatic version control on save-back; Zapier (bridging to 5,000+ apps including Shopify, Box, Dropbox, Salesforce, Trello, Mailchimp, DocuSign); Microsoft 365 (Word, PowerPoint, Excel, Outlook); Google Workspace (Docs, Slides, Sheets); social/publishing connectors for WordPress, Hootsuite, YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, Brightcove; project-management connectors Asana and Workfront; and museum/collections-management system connectors (TMS, PastPerfect, Opas, Keepthinking, EMu, Re:discovery, Museum Plus) reflecting NetX's GLAM (galleries/libraries/archives/museums) vertical.

Last release Most recent dated entry found (via search snippet, direct fetch returned 403): March 24, 2026 — fixed preset processes not resolving correctly in approved-download share links; fixed user lookup by login/email being broken; fixed a null-pointer exception when running the RegenerateAssets job from the job runner; fixed download-approved notification emails going to the admin instead of the requesting user; plus a batch of smaller fixes (FileManager path-traversal issue, TIFF orientation handling, memory issues loading large PDFs, attributes not displaying on download-approval shares, gallery sort reverting after viewing dashboard collections, portal carousel display). An older, publicly-readable blog post documents version 8.7 (October 25, 2016: Percolate social-sharing integration, asset expiration management, saved-search notifications) but that is not the current release. — changelog

API depth Full API — JSON-RPC 2.0 interface (not REST) served from a single endpoint, HTTP POST only, token-based auth via an Authorization header issued from the NetX UI. Documented scope covers assets (retrieve/update/delete/version/reactivate prior versions), folders (create/update/delete, hierarchical), collections, views, custom attributes and attribute definitions, user and group management (create/update/delete, group membership), complex/faceted search, multipart file import/reimport, file retrieval (originals, thumbnails, previews, zoom), and webhooks for event notifications — a genuinely broad DAM API spanning asset lifecycle, org structure, and user administration, not a decorative single-purpose endpoint. — API docs

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Reviews, by how much to trust them

Verified tier: no confirmed listing could be reached for NetX on Gartner Peer Insights, TrustRadius, or PeerSpot — direct fetches to plausible TrustRadius and Gartner product URLs both returned 403, and web search did not surface a specific NetX rating/review-count on any of the three (PeerSpot's indexed 'NetX' result is actually NetXMS, an unrelated network-monitoring product, not NetX DAM). Incentivized tier: G2 lists NetX | DAM at 4.6/5 from 60 reviews (figure corroborated across two independent search results); Capterra also lists a NetX DAM profile but its specific score/count was not retrieved in this session — G2 and Capterra share ownership since the 05.02.2026 deal, so these should be treated as one source family, not two, once both are confirmed. Long tail: SaaSWorthy shows 4.7/5 from 39 reviews and SpotSaas shows 4.6/5 from 84 reviews (neither independently verified beyond the aggregator snippet); recurring qualitative themes across sources are strong metadata/search and praised onboarding support, with a noted weakness in workflow handling of large video files.

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Sources

Pricing page is quote-only ('Request a Consult'); three named tiers (Essential, Signature, Premium) plus a custom Enterprise tier, differentiated by admin user count, storage in TB, and number of portals rather than a published price. checked 2026-08-07 — NetX Pricing page
Homepage/product pages describe NetX as a DAM ('DAM+') offering Cloud and On-Premise deployment. checked 2026-08-07 — NetX homepage
Higher Education industry page explicitly lists deployment options as SaaS, hybrid, and on-premises configurations, and states SSO integration is available along with facial recognition and automated video transcription. checked 2026-08-07 — NetX Higher Education industry page
Features page confirms AI-driven tagging ('Automatically generate keywords using Google Vision and Amazon Recognition'), AI-driven search, multi-format asset upload including video, rights management, automatic version management, approval/review workflows, branded portals, an open API for integrations, and automated watermarking for shared previews. checked 2026-08-07 — NetX Features page
AI product page confirms facial recognition as a search capability, alongside AI tagging of objects/people/logos/text, AI-powered visual/text search, OCR, and automatic speech transcription for audio/video. checked 2026-08-07 — NetX Artificial Intelligence product page
NetX supports SAML v2.0-based single sign-on between NetX and third-party SSO providers, plus legacy CAS support. checked 2026-08-07 — NetX Customer Support - NetX SAML Services
Dedicated industry pages exist for Museums, Government/Municipalities, Agencies, Manufacturing, Higher Education, Construction, Professional Sports, and Nonprofits/Foundations (plus Fashion, Collegiate Sports, Travel+Tourism, Corporations, Galleries/Private Collections which are outside the taxonomy used here). checked 2026-08-07 — NetX industry pages
Museum case studies (MoMA, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, SFMoMA, The Jewish Museum) describe NetX use for collections photography workflows and rights management for rotating exhibitions. checked 2026-08-07 — NetX Case Studies
Construction/AEC industry page describes blueprint, permit, and jobsite-photo management with version control and mobile portals for foremen/subcontractors/inspectors/clients; does not document dedicated CAD-file format support. checked 2026-08-07 — NetX Construction industry page
Agencies industry page describes review/approval workflows, secure time-limited share links, AI metadata tagging, version control, and branded portals for internal/client/media-center use. checked 2026-08-07 — NetX Agencies industry page
Nonprofits/Foundations industry page confirms multiple deployment options (SaaS, Hybrid, On-Premise), approval workflows, and portal-based access for volunteers/staff. checked 2026-08-07 — NetX Nonprofits industry page
Professional Sports industry page confirms AI-powered tagging/search, branded portals for media partners/sponsors/fans, and custom workflows for player bios/media approvals/press kits, used by teams such as the Pittsburgh Steelers, Portland Trail Blazers, and LA Dodgers. checked 2026-08-07 — NetX Professional Sports industry page
NetX accepts and securely stores files of any format; proxy/derivative generation is limited to specific formats depending on installed transcoding engines checked 2026-08-09 — NetX Support — Supported File Formats (via search snippet; direct fetch 403)
NetX partners with Telestream, MediaRich, and Adobe for file-format conversion support checked 2026-08-09 — FeaturedCustomers — NetX Reviews overview (aggregated summary)
'Upload images, videos, audio files, documents and creative assets within a single DAM environment' checked 2026-08-09 — NetX — Digital Asset Management Features page
CI HUB connector integrates NetX with Adobe Creative Cloud apps, Microsoft 365, Google Workspace, Figma, Sketch, WordPress, SharePoint, Asana, Trello checked 2026-08-09 — NetX — Product Integrations page
Direct Adobe Creative Cloud connector supports Photoshop, InDesign, Illustrator, Premiere Pro, After Effects, InCopy, with a Place Gun tool and automatic version control on save-back checked 2026-08-09 — NetX — Adobe Creative Cloud DAM integration page
March 24, 2026 release fixed preset-process resolution on approved-download share links, broken user lookup by login/email, a null-pointer exception in RegenerateAssets job, and misdirected download-approval notification emails, among other fixes checked 2026-08-09 — NetX Release Notes (via search snippet; direct fetch 403)
NetX 8.7 (October 25, 2016) added Percolate integration, asset expiration management, and saved-search notifications checked 2026-08-09 — NetX Blog — 8.7 Release
NetX API is a JSON-RPC 2.0 interface (single POST-only endpoint), token auth, covering assets, folders, collections, views, versions, custom attributes, user/group management, search, multipart import, file/thumbnail/preview retrieval, and webhooks checked 2026-08-09 — NetX Developer API Documentation
NetX Public API page describes connecting assets, metadata and previews with other systems 'across your enterprise' via 'a variety of formats and protocols' checked 2026-08-09 — NetX — Open API product page
G2 lists NetX | DAM at 4.6 out of 5 stars from 60 reviews checked 2026-08-09 — G2 (via search snippet; direct fetch 403)
SaaSWorthy lists NetX at 4.7/5 from 39 user reviews; SpotSaas lists NetX at 4.6/5 from 84 reviews checked 2026-08-09 — SaaSWorthy / SpotSaas aggregator listings (via search snippet)
Direct fetch attempts to TrustRadius (trustradius.com/products/netx/reviews) and Gartner Peer Insights (gartner.com/reviews/market/digital-asset-management-software/vendor/netx) both returned HTTP 403; search did not surface a confirmed NetX-specific rating on Gartner Peer Insights, TrustRadius, or PeerSpot (PeerSpot's 'NetX' listing is the unrelated NetXMS network-monitoring product) checked 2026-08-09 — Direct verification attempt in this session