| Vendor | Acquia | Cloudinary |
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| HQ | USA (Boston, MA; DAM team rooted in Madison, WI) | USA (San Jose, California); main R&D in Petah Tikva, Israel |
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| Founded | 2007 | 2012 |
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| Ownership | subsidiary of Acquia (majority-owned by Vista Equity Partners) | independent, privately held (founder-led; secondary investments by Bessemer, Salesforce Ventures, Blackstone Growth) |
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| Target market | Mid-market to enterprise | Enterprise |
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| Hosting regions | US, EU | US, EU, ap |
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| Pricing model | quote-only tiers (Workgroup, Mid-Market, Enterprise) + add-ons | Assets: Free tier or quote-only Enterprise; Image & Video APIs: public credit-based tiers |
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| Certifications | ISO 27001, SOC 1 Type 2, SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA-ready, GDPR | SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, ISO14001 |
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| Analyst coverage | Forrester Wave DAM Systems Q1 2026: Strong Performer · Forrester Wave DAM Systems Q1 2024: Strong Performer · Forrester Wave DAM for CX Q1 2022: Leader (as Widen) | Gartner MQ DAM Platforms 2024: Visionary · Gartner MQ DAM Platforms 2025: Visionary · IDC MarketScape Intelligent DAM 2024: Leader |
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| Official MCP server | YesMCP Server for Acquia DAM, read-only | Yes5 servers - Asset Management, Environment Config, Structured Metadata, Analysis, MediaFlows; remote OAuth or local npm |
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| API base URL | https://api.widencollective.com/v2 | https://api.cloudinary.com/v1_1/{cloud_name}/{action} (api-eu / api-ap for EU, AP) |
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| Authentication | OAuth 2.0 authorization code, Personal token | Basic auth, API key, OAuth 2.0 authorization code, OAuth 2.0 PKCE |
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| Token lifetime | OAuth: non-expiring, or 8 h access + 6-month single-use refresh | OAuth: access 5 min, refresh 3 months (single-use); upload signatures 1 h |
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| Rate limit | 50 req/s per access token (HTTP 429); monthly call allowance by plan | Admin API 500/h (Free) to 5,000/h, custom on Enterprise; HTTP 420; Upload API unlimited |
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| Pagination | offset (limit max 100, offset max 10,000) or scroll_id for large sets | cursor (next_cursor + max_results, max 100 or 500 per method) |
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| Webhooks (API) | API-managed, 9 asset events, optional HMAC signing; retries Not public | API- and UI-managed triggers, ~28 event types, HMAC-SHA1 / Ed25519 signed, 3 retries |
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| API spec | OpenAPI 3.0.1: v2 (78 operations) + v1 (49 operations) | OpenAPI 3.0.3 / 3.1.0: 12 schemas on GitHub + 3 in docs (15 files in specs/) |
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| Official SDKs | TypeScript/JavaScript (official, npm acquia-dam-sdk) | Node, Python, PHP, Java, Ruby, .NET, Go, Dart, JS/React/Vue/Angular, iOS, Android, Flutter |
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