| Vendor | Portfolio DAM, LLC (Axle AI) | ImageKit Private Limited (India), with US subsidiary ImageKit Inc |
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| HQ | USA (Woburn, MA) | India (New Delhi); US entity in Newark, Delaware |
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| Founded | 2026 | 2016 |
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| Ownership | subsidiary of Axle AI, Inc. (acquired from Extensis/Monotype, 2026-03-09) | independent, privately held (no external funding round disclosed) |
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| Target market | SMB to enterprise workgroups (on-premise, archives, creative and print teams) | SMB to mid-market (self-serve plans); Enterprise plans for SSO, governance and custom limits |
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| Deployment | On-premise, Private cloud | SaaS |
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| Hosting regions | Not public | US, Canada, EU, in, sg, Australia |
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| Pricing model | subscription by seats, asset limit and add-on modules; quote-based | Media Processing + DAM: Free, Lite $9/mo, Pro $89/mo plus usage overage; Enterprise quote-only; separate DAM-only plans |
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| Public pricing | No | Yes |
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| SSO | LDAP, kerberos | SAML |
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| Certifications | None published | ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2 |
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| API style (overview) | REST, SOAP | REST |
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| Webhooks (overview) | No | Yes |
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| Official MCP server | No | Yes3 hosted remote servers - DAM, Admin (OAuth) and DevTools (public) |
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| API base URL | http(s)://{server}:8090/api/v1 (HTTPS on 9443); self-hosted | https://api.imagekit.io/v1/… (management); https://upload.imagekit.io/api/v1|v2/files/upload |
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| API styles | REST, SOAP | REST |
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| Authentication | Session login, API key | Basic auth, API key, JWT, OAuth 2.0 PKCE |
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| Token lifetime | Session expires on inactivity (duration Not public); API Token never times out | API keys: no expiry (rotate with 0 h to 7 d grace); client upload signature/JWT ≤ 1 h |
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| Rate limit | Not public (self-hosted server; no documented throttle) | Burst + sustained per endpoint, HTTP 429; ~40 reads/s, 5-20 writes/s advised; Upload API unlimited |
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| Pagination | offset (startingIndex + pageSize, default 1,000) | offset (skip/limit, max 1,000) on file listing; cursor on tag listing |
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| Webhooks (API) | none; server-side JavaScript event scripts (no longer actively supported) | Dashboard or API, 15 event types, Standard Webhooks HMAC-SHA256, max 3 endpoints |
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| API spec | OpenAPI 3.0.1 (63 paths / 73 operations, 2018) + deprecated SOAP WSDL | OpenAPI 3.1.0 (1 file, 60 operations), Apache-2.0 |
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| Official SDKs | none current; legacy SOAP sample clients (Java, C#, PHP) | Node.js/TS, Python, Go, Java, Ruby, .NET, PHP, JS, React, Vue, Angular, Next.js, Astro, iOS, Android |
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