{"id":2302,"date":"2026-08-07T14:43:22","date_gmt":"2026-08-07T11:43:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/picajet.com\/articles\/platforms\/akeneo\/"},"modified":"2026-08-07T14:43:22","modified_gmt":"2026-08-07T11:43:22","slug":"akeneo","status":"publish","type":"vendor","link":"https:\/\/picajet.com\/articles\/platforms\/akeneo\/","title":{"rendered":"Akeneo"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"featured_media":0,"template":"","meta":{"footnotes":"","seo_title":"Akeneo PIM with DAM module: editions, fit and open-source option","seo_description":"","noindex":false,"one_liner":"A PIM platform with a built-in DAM module, used by manufacturing and ecommerce companies to manage product data and assets; also available as a free open-source Community Edition.","strengths":[{"point":"Assets sit in the same model as product data, so a SKU's images inherit its channel, locale and enrichment rules","source":"Vendor Asset Manager documentation"},{"point":"Carries a TrustRadius Top Rated badge at 4.5\/5 from 57 reviews plus 4.7\/5 on Gartner Peer Insights across 100+ ratings","source":"TrustRadius, 57 reviews; Gartner Peer Insights"},{"point":"Asset metadata handles licensing terms, expiration dates and regional restrictions as first-class fields, not free-text notes","source":"Vendor Asset Manager documentation"},{"point":"The open-source Community Edition is still actively shipped: the 2026-2 release moved it to PHP 8.3 and Elasticsearch 8.17","source":"GitHub, akeneo\/pim-community-dev releases"}],"weaknesses":[{"point":"The native Asset Manager belongs to the Enterprise\/Serenity tier; on free Community Edition the DAM means a third-party extension","source":"Akeneo edition comparisons and Akeneo App Store connector listings"},{"point":"Portals, watermarking, C2PA, RAW\/CAD handling, facial recognition and GIS are documented nowhere on the vendor's DAM page","source":"Vendor DAM product page"},{"point":"Only the free edition and a non-committal $0 Growth trial banner are shown; both paid tiers are quote-only","source":"Vendor pricing page"},{"point":"Every verified-tier score rates the PIM rather than the DAM module, and PeerSpot has collected no Akeneo reviews at all","source":"Gartner Peer Insights \/ TrustRadius \/ PeerSpot"}],"verdict_line":"Consistently rated 4.4-4.7\/5 across G2, Capterra, Gartner Peer Insights, and TrustRadius (Top Rated).","buy_if":"You already need (or are shopping for) a PIM and want product asset management natively unified with product data in one workflow, on a SaaS platform, with AI-assisted keyword tagging and role-based\/rights metadata (licensing terms, expiration dates, regional restrictions) built in.","dont_buy_if":"You need a standalone, feature-rich DAM (portals\/external sharing, watermarking, C2PA, RAW\/CAD handling, facial recognition, GIS) as your primary system \u2014 Akeneo's own DAM page documents none of these; the DAM is explicitly positioned as a companion to the PIM, not an independent media library. Also avoid if you need transparent, published pricing to budget without a sales call \u2014 only the free Community Edition and a non-committal \"$0\" Growth trial banner are shown; the two higher paid tiers are quote-only.","quote_against":"","price_reality":"","review_summary":"","review_corpus":"","review_themes":[],"statement_label":"","statement":"","statement_note":"","product_types":["pim-dam","dam"],"verticals":["manufacturing","ecommerce"],"features":["ai-tagging","video","rights","versioning","approval","api","sso"],"vendor_category":"","vendor_url":"","pricing_page_url":"","published_price":false,"median_contract_usd":0,"median_sample_size":0,"entry_estimate":"","billed_units":"No genuine dollar pricing is published. The vendor's package-comparison page lists four tiers: Community Edition (free, open-source, self-hosted), Growth (SaaS, shown only as \"Starting at $0 Annually\" with a free-trial CTA \u2014 no real recurring price disclosed), Advanced and Premium (both \"Call for a quote\"). No billing unit (per user, per SKU, per asset, per GB) is stated anywhere on the site for the paid tiers.","packaging_style":"","deployment":["cloud","on-prem"],"free_plan":false,"free_trial":false,"ai_tagging":false,"storage_limits":"","integrations":"Akeneo's own App Store (apps.akeneo.com) lists 138 apps across categories including E-commerce, DAM, CMS, ERP, iPaaS, Analytics, Syndication, Translation, AI Cleaning & Enrichment, Print and Data Standards. Named first-party\/partner connectors include Adobe Commerce\/Magento (separate Community and Enterprise editions), Shopify, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Salesforce (Sales Cloud\/Service Cloud\/Experience Cloud\/B2B Commerce), SAP S\/4HANA and SAP Commerce Cloud, plus community connectors for WooCommerce, PrestaShop, BigCommerce and Shopware. Akeneo also markets product syndication reach to 500+ retailers\/marketplaces via its Activation API\/App, and references Cloudinary as a DAM-side integration example.","formats_supported":"Akeneo's attribute system has separate extension whitelists: Image-type attributes accept gif, jfif, jif, jpeg, jpg, pdf, png, PSD, tif, tiff; File-type attributes accept CSV, doc, docx, mp3, pdf, ppt, pptx, rtf, svg, txt, wav. In the Asset Manager (DAM module), each asset family is configured with a media type of image, PDF, or other (including video via media-link attributes pointing to YouTube\/Vimeo or external CDN\/DAM URLs); automatic image variation\/thumbnail generation works for image mimetypes (image\/jpeg, image\/png, image\/tiff, image\/gif) but is not natively available for PDF or AVI files, though those can still be stored and managed.","common_complaint":"","best_fit":"Mid-market to enterprise product\/commerce teams already centralizing product data in Akeneo PIM who want images, videos, and documents linked to that product data in the same workflow, delivered via CDN, with AI keyword tagging and SSO \u2014 rather than organizations needing a general-purpose or industry-specific (museum, newsroom, healthcare, etc.) DAM.","changelog_url":"https:\/\/github.com\/akeneo\/pim-community-dev\/releases","last_release_note":"Latest tagged release on GitHub is v2026.3, published 2026-03-30 (per GitHub API), described in the release as a minor housekeeping update ('Clarifies versioning scheme in README.md'). The prior tag, 2026-2, was published 2026-02-10 -- i.e. the public community-edition changelog has had no new tag in roughly 4.5 months as of this check.","api_docs_url":"https:\/\/api.akeneo.com\/","api_depth":"Full API surface, not decorative: a primary REST API (with OpenAPI spec and Postman collections), a GraphQL API, an Event Platform for webhooks\/event subscriptions, a PHP API client, plus specialized Supplier Data Manager and Activation APIs. The dedicated Asset Manager API (api.akeneo.com\/concepts\/asset-manager.html) supports full CRUD on assets, asset families, asset attributes and attribute options, automated product-linking rules, naming conventions that extract metadata from filenames, and automated image variation\/transformation generation.","wayback_note":"Wayback Machine unreachable via WebFetch in this environment","review_tier_summary":"Verified tier: Gartner Peer Insights shows Akeneo PIM at 4.7\/5 (figures of 118 and 134 ratings appear on different category pages, ~73% five-star) in the Product Information Management Solutions market, and separately 4.4\/5 from 5 reviews in the Master Data Management of Product Data Solutions market. TrustRadius shows 4.5\/5 from 57 reviews with a 'Top Rated' badge. Incentivized tier (G2 and Capterra share a common owner since the 2026-02-05 deal -- counted as one source, not two): G2 shows Akeneo PIM at 4.4\/5 (67% five-star, 29% four-star); Capterra shows 4.7-4.8\/5 from roughly 39-40 reviews (100% reported as positive\/neutral, 0% negative). Long tail: PeerSpot explicitly has no collected reviews for Akeneo yet ('We have not yet collected reviews for Akeneo'); the akeneo\/pim-community-dev GitHub repo has an active public issue tracker used for community bug reports, but this audit could not reliably confirm an exact open-issue count from the fetched view."},"silo":[],"class_list":["post-2302","vendor","type-vendor","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/picajet.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vendor\/2302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/picajet.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vendor"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/picajet.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/vendor"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/picajet.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vendor\/2302\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/picajet.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"silo","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/picajet.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/silo?post=2302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}