| Vendor | Brandworkz Ltd | Portfolio DAM, LLC (Axle AI) |
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| HQ | UK (London) | USA (Woburn, MA) |
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| Founded | 1997 | 2026 |
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| Ownership | subsidiary of Spinakr Solutions LLC (USA) | subsidiary of Axle AI, Inc. (acquired from Extensis/Monotype, 2026-03-09) |
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| Target market | Mid-market to enterprise | SMB to enterprise workgroups (on-premise, archives, creative and print teams) |
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| Deployment | SaaS | On-premise, Private cloud |
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| Hosting regions | EU, US | Not public |
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| Pricing model | per-user plan tiers (free Essentials; Core, Professional, Enterprise quote-only), unlimited storage | subscription by seats, asset limit and add-on modules; quote-based |
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| SSO | SAML | LDAP, kerberos |
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| Certifications | ISO 27001, CYBER-ESSENTIALS-PLUS | None published |
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| Analyst coverage | Real Story Group DAM vendor evaluations: covered since 2014 · G2 DAM High Performer (Spring 2019) | Not public |
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| API style (overview) | REST | REST, SOAP |
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| OpenAPI spec | No | Yes |
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| Webhooks (overview) | Unknown | No |
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| API base URL | {api_url}/v{api_version}/{client_id}/… (resolved via api.brandworkz.com/getAPIURL) | http(s)://{server}:8090/api/v1 (HTTPS on 9443); self-hosted |
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| API styles | REST | REST, SOAP |
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| Authentication | oauth2-password, OAuth 2.0 authorization code, API key | session, API key |
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| Token lifetime | expires_in 1,200 s (20 min) in the doc example; refresh_token grant | Session expires on inactivity (duration Not public); API Token never times out |
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| Rate limit | Not public | Not public (self-hosted server; no documented throttle) |
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| Pagination | simpleSearch from/size (default 50, max 500); start/numberOfResults, limit/offset | offset (startingIndex + pageSize, default 1,000) |
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| Webhooks (API) | Unknown (only a webhookId parameter on importAsset) | none; server-side JavaScript event scripts (no longer actively supported) |
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| API spec | Postman collections: API v1.6 (159 requests) + Essentials API (5 requests) | OpenAPI 3.0.1 (63 paths / 73 operations, 2018) + deprecated SOAP WSDL |
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| Official SDKs | none official; assetInsert JS examples on GitHub | none current; legacy SOAP sample clients (Java, C#, PHP) |
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