| Vendor | Brandworkz Ltd | Montala Limited |
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| HQ | UK (London) | UK (Watchfield, Oxfordshire) |
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| Founded | 1997 | 2006 |
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| Ownership | subsidiary of Spinakr Solutions LLC (USA) | independent (100% employee-owned via an Employee Ownership Trust since 2020-10) |
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| Target market | Mid-market to enterprise | Mid-market |
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| Deployment | SaaS | SaaS, On-premise |
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| Hosting regions | EU, US | UK |
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| Pricing model | per-user plan tiers (free Essentials; Core, Professional, Enterprise quote-only), unlimited storage | free open-source software (BSD-style licence); paid annual hosting + support packages (4 public tiers) |
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| Public pricing | No | Yes |
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| SSO | SAML | SAML, LDAP |
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| Certifications | ISO 27001, CYBER-ESSENTIALS-PLUS | ISO 27001 |
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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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| Webhooks (overview) | Unknown | PartialAPI Webhooks plugin: user-triggered outbound POST buttons, no event subscriptions |
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| Official MCP server | No | NoMCP API interface on the official 11.1 roadmap, planned 2027-02-23, status Scoping; unreleased prototype in a public SVN branch |
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| API base URL | {api_url}/v{api_version}/{client_id}/… (resolved via api.brandworkz.com/getAPIURL) | https://{host}/api/ |
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| Authentication | OAuth 2.0 password, OAuth 2.0 authorization code, API key | API key, Session login |
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| Token lifetime | expires_in 1,200 s (20 min) in the doc example; refresh_token grant | User key: no expiry documented; session key tied to login session |
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| Rate limit | Not public | None documented (API throttling on the 11.2 roadmap, not yet scheduled) |
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| Pagination | simpleSearch from/size (default 50, max 500); start/numberOfResults, limit/offset | offset (do_search fetchrows "offset,limit" returns total + data; offset param) |
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| Webhooks (API) | Unknown (only a webhookId parameter on importAsset) | none (API Webhooks plugin = user-triggered outbound POST buttons) |
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| API spec | Postman collections: API v1.6 (159 requests) + Essentials API (5 requests) | none published (KB-described per-instance OpenAPI generator absent from 11.0 code) |
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| Official SDKs | none official; assetInsert JS examples on GitHub | none official (built-in API test tool generates PHP and cURL code) |
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