| Vendor | Adobe Inc. | Tenovos Corporation |
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| HQ | USA (San Jose, California) | USA (New York, NY) |
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| Founded | 1982 | 2018 |
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| Ownership | public (NASDAQ: ADBE) | independent, VC-backed (S4S Ventures, BDMI, Progress Ventures, Revel Partners, Dublin Capital Partners, UCIG) |
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| Deployment | SaaS, Private cloud, On-premise | SaaS |
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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) | quote-only (demo request); Tenovos Glass also listed on AWS Marketplace |
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| SSO | SAML | Not public |
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| Certifications | HIPAA-ready, CMMC L2 | SOC2 |
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| Analyst coverage | Gartner MQ DAM Platforms 2025: Leader · Forrester Wave DAM Systems Q1 2026: Leader | IDC MarketScape Worldwide Intelligent DAM 2024: Leader · Forrester Wave DAM for Customer Experience Q1 2022: Strong Performer |
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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 | https://api.tenovos.io/v1 (v1.5, all customers); UAT: https://api.uat.tenovos.io/v1 |
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| Authentication | OAuth 2.0 client credentials, OAuth 2.0 authorization code, OAuth 2.0 PKCE, JWT | API key, JWT, OAuth 2.0 authorization code |
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| Token lifetime | ~24 h (IMS access token, expires_in; refresh rules for user flows Unknown) | Access token 1 h; refresh token usable up to 30 days |
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| Rate limit | Not public (429 + exponential backoff; thresholds via support ticket) | Not documented; x-ratelimit-limit 60000 / reset 60 seen on a 401 (observed) |
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| Pagination | cursor (limit 1-50 + opaque cursor) | offset from/limit (max 100, search window 10,000); cursor scan for deep paging |
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| Webhooks (API) | Adobe I/O Events: webhook (RSA-SHA256 signed), journal, EventBridge | API- or admin-UI-managed; HMAC-SHA256 signed; 8 attempts with back-off |
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| API spec | OpenAPI 3.0.3 (6 archived spec files, 2026.07) | OpenAPI 3.0 (v1.5, 127 ops) + Content Intelligence API + webhooks OpenAPI 3.1 |
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| Official SDKs | No generated SDK; Node.js upload/events libs and Java AEM SDK (official) | none official (Node.js training samples only) |
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