| Vendor | Cloudinary | Hyland Software |
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| HQ | USA (San Jose, California); main R&D in Petah Tikva, Israel | USA (Westlake, Ohio; Nuxeo historically New York and Paris) |
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| Founded | 2012 | 2000 |
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| Ownership | independent, privately held (founder-led; secondary investments by Bessemer, Salesforce Ventures, Blackstone Growth) | subsidiary of Hyland Software (Thoma Bravo portfolio company) |
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| Deployment | SaaS | SaaS, Private cloud, On-premise |
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| Hosting regions | US, EU, ap | US, EU, APAC |
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| Pricing model | Assets: Free tier or quote-only Enterprise; Image & Video APIs: public credit-based tiers | quote-only (Nuxeo Cloud subscriptions with Standard/Enhanced service levels; AWS Marketplace private offers) |
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| SSO | SAML | SAML, OIDC, cas, kerberos |
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| Certifications | SOC 2 Type 2, ISO 27001, ISO14001 | SOC 2 Type 2 |
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| Analyst coverage | Gartner MQ DAM Platforms 2024: Visionary · Gartner MQ DAM Platforms 2025: Visionary · IDC MarketScape Intelligent DAM 2024: Leader | Forrester Wave DAM Systems Q1 2026: Contender (per trade press) · Forrester Wave DAM Systems Q1 2024: Strong Performer · Omdia Universe DAM 2023: Leader · Forrester Wave DAM for CX Q4 2019: Strong Performer (as Nuxeo) · Gartner MQ Content Services Platforms 2017-2020: Visionary (as Nuxeo) |
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| API style (overview) | REST | REST, webdav |
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| OpenAPI spec | Yes | No |
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| Webhooks (overview) | Yes | No |
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| Official MCP server | Yes5 servers - Asset Management, Environment Config, Structured Metadata, Analysis, MediaFlows; remote OAuth or local npm | YesNuxeo MCP Server, open source in the nuxeo GitHub org, self-hosted, v0.1.0; support level Unknown |
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| API base URL | https://api.cloudinary.com/v1_1/{cloud_name}/{action} (api-eu / api-ap for EU, AP) | https://{host}/nuxeo/api/v1 |
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| API styles | REST | REST, WebDAV |
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| Authentication | Basic auth, API key, OAuth 2.0 authorization code, OAuth 2.0 PKCE | Basic auth, Personal token, JWT, OAuth 2.0 authorization code, OAuth 2.0 PKCE, OAuth 2.0 client credentials |
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| Token lifetime | OAuth: access 5 min, refresh 3 months (single-use); upload signatures 1 h | OAuth2 access ~1 h (expires_in 3599 in docs) + refresh token; login tokens: Not public |
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| Rate limit | Admin API 500/h (Free) to 5,000/h, custom on Enterprise; HTTP 420; Upload API unlimited | Not public (no throttling documented; Nuxeo Cloud reports API activity monthly) |
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| Pagination | cursor (next_cursor + max_results, max 100 or 500 per method) | offset (currentPageIndex/pageSize/offset; pageSize max 1,000 by default) |
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| Webhooks (API) | API- and UI-managed triggers, ~28 event types, HMAC-SHA1 / Ed25519 signed, 3 retries | none native (server-side event listeners; Zapier add-on notification hooks) |
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| API spec | OpenAPI 3.0.3 / 3.1.0: 12 schemas on GitHub + 3 in docs (15 files in specs/) | none static; runtime Swagger 1.2 explorer via optional, unmaintained add-on |
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| Official SDKs | Node, Python, PHP, Java, Ruby, .NET, Go, Dart, JS/React/Vue/Angular, iOS, Android, Flutter | Java, JavaScript, Python (official); PHP partial; .NET archived |
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