| Vendor | Bynder | OpenText (Open Text Corporation) |
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| HQ | Netherlands (Amsterdam) | Canada (Waterloo, Ontario) |
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| Founded | 2013 | 1991 |
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| Ownership | PE-backed (Thomas H. Lee Partners, majority since 2023) | public (NASDAQ/TSX OTEX) |
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| Target market | Enterprise | Enterprise (upper mid-market to large enterprise) |
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| Deployment | SaaS | SaaS, Private cloud, On-premise |
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| Hosting regions | EU, US, Japan | US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia |
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| Pricing model | quote-only modular packages (DAM core + add-on modules) | quote-only; annual subscription or perpetual/term licence (G-Cloud 14 list price GBP 240/user/year) |
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| SSO | SAML, OIDC | SAML, OAuth 2.0, LDAP |
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| Certifications | SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, ISO 27018, ISO 22301, HIPAA, PCI DSS | ISO 27001, ISO 27017, SOC 1 Type 2, SOC 2 Type 2 |
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| Analyst coverage | Forrester Wave DAM Systems Q1 2026: Leader · Forrester Wave DAM Systems Q1 2024: Leader | Forrester Wave DAM Systems Q1 2026: Leader · IDC MarketScape Intelligent DAM 2024: Leader · Omdia Universe DXM 2025-26: Leader · Forrester Wave DAM for CX Q4 2019: Leader |
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| OpenAPI spec | Partial | Yes |
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| Webhooks (overview) | Yes | No |
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| Official MCP server | YesBynder MCP — asset search + CX User Community guidelines | No |
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| API base URL | https://{tenant}.bynder.com (/api/v4, /api/1, /v6, /v7 path families) | https://{tenant}/otmmapi/v6 |
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| Authentication | OAuth 2.0 authorization code, OAuth 2.0 client credentials, OAuth 2.0 PKCE, API key | session, OAuth 2.0 client credentials, oauth2-password |
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| Token lifetime | Access 1 h; refresh token does not expire; permanent tokens never expire | Unknown (session and OTDS OAuth token lifetimes are not published) |
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| Rate limit | 4,500 requests per 5 min per public IP (HTTP 429) | Not public (single-tenant installs; no limit documented) |
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| Pagination | offset (page/limit, max 1,000); opt-in SOLR cursor; Analytics cursor | offset: after/before + limit (Core DAM: offset/count, default 25) |
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| Webhooks (API) | UI- or API-managed, AWS SNS (HTTP(S), e-mail, SQS); Basic Auth, no signing | none; per-job callback URL (GET/POST) on import/export jobs |
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| API spec | OpenAPI 3.1 fragments per reference page (221 ops) + Postman; no full file | OpenAPI 3.0.1: OTMM CE 23.2 (247 ops) + Core DAM v1 (12 ops) |
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| Official SDKs | JS/Node, Python, PHP, Java, C# (official) | Java representations JAR shipped with the server; no public package |
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