| Vendor | Adobe Inc. | Alchemy |
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| HQ | USA (San Jose, California) | France (Paris) |
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| Founded | 1982 | 1996 |
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| Ownership | public (NASDAQ: ADBE) | independent (privately held French SARL) |
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| Target market | Enterprise | SMB to enterprise (companies, public sector, photographers) |
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| Deployment | SaaS, Private cloud, On-premise | SaaS, On-premise |
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| Pricing model | quote-only; packages Assets Prime / Assets Ultimate with user types (Limited, Collaborator, Power, Admin); Dynamic Media Prime/Ultimate add-ons (DM billed on aggregated page views/visits) | free open-source licence; SaaS plans by workspaces, storage and request quotas (from €169/month); services packs |
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| Public pricing | No | Yes |
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| SSO | SAML | SAML, OIDC |
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| Certifications | HIPAA-ready, CMMC L2 | None published |
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| Analyst coverage | Gartner MQ DAM Platforms 2025: Leader · Forrester Wave DAM Systems Q1 2026: Leader | Not public |
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| OpenAPI spec | Partial | Yes |
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| Webhooks (overview) | YesAdobe I/O Events; AEM as a Cloud Service only | Yes |
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| Official MCP server | YesAEM MCP Server, https://mcp.adobeaemcloud.com/adobe/mcp/aem | No |
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| API base URL | https://author-p{program}-e{env}.adobeaemcloud.com/adobe/assets | Phrasea: https://api-databox.{domain}/ · Phraseanet: https://{host}/api/v3/ |
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| Authentication | OAuth 2.0 client credentials, OAuth 2.0 authorization code, OAuth 2.0 PKCE, JWT | OAuth 2.0 authorization code, OAuth 2.0 PKCE, OAuth 2.0 client credentials, OAuth 2.0 password, API key |
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| Token lifetime | ~24 h (IMS access token, expires_in; refresh rules for user flows Unknown) | Phrasea: Keycloak realm setting (Not public); Phraseanet v1: tokens do not expire |
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| Rate limit | Not public (429 + exponential backoff; thresholds via support ticket) | Phraseanet v1: none; Phrasea SaaS plans: 5-40 concurrent requests + request quotas |
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| Pagination | cursor (limit 1-50 + opaque cursor) | Phrasea: page + limit (max 100); Phraseanet v3: offset/limit or page/per_page (max 100) |
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| Webhooks (API) | Adobe I/O Events: webhook (RSA-SHA256 signed), journal, EventBridge | Phrasea: admin-managed entity events, unsigned; Phraseanet: per OAuth app, 17 events |
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| API spec | OpenAPI 3.0.3 (6 archived spec files, 2026.07) | OpenAPI 3.1.0 Databox (239 ops) + Expose (37 ops); Phraseanet v3 OpenAPI 3.0.3 (7 ops) |
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| Official SDKs | No generated SDK; Node.js upload/events libs and Java AEM SDK (official) | Phraseanet PHP SDK (last release 2021); no official Phrasea SDK |
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