| Vendor | Portfolio DAM, LLC (Axle AI) | Keepeek SAS (Papirfly group) |
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| HQ | USA (Woburn, MA) | France (Paris) |
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| Founded | 2026 | 2008 |
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| Ownership | subsidiary of Axle AI, Inc. (acquired from Extensis/Monotype, 2026-03-09) | subsidiary of Papirfly Group (majority-owned by Verdane) |
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| Target market | SMB to enterprise workgroups (on-premise, archives, creative and print teams) | Enterprise |
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| Deployment | On-premise, Private cloud | SaaS, On-premise |
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| Hosting regions | Not public | EU |
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| Pricing model | subscription by seats, asset limit and add-on modules; quote-based | quote-only (by solutions chosen + company size), 12-month contracts, optional modules |
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| SSO | LDAP, kerberos | SAML, OIDC |
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| Analyst coverage | Not public | Forrester Wave DAM Systems Q1 2026: parent Papirfly rated Contender (Keepeek not named) |
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| API style (overview) | REST, SOAP | REST |
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| Webhooks (overview) | No | Custom |
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| Official MCP server | No | Nonot yet publicly documented |
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| API base URL | http(s)://{server}:8090/api/v1 (HTTPS on 9443); self-hosted | https://{tenant}.keepeek.com/api |
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| API styles | REST, SOAP | REST |
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| Authentication | session, API key | Basic auth, JWT |
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| Token lifetime | Session expires on inactivity (duration Not public); API Token never times out | JWT lifetime set by client (exp; sample 60 s); no refresh; max Not public |
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| Rate limit | Not public (self-hosted server; no documented throttle) | Not public |
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| Pagination | offset (startingIndex + pageSize, default 1,000) | page-based (page/size, default 20; max Not public) |
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| Webhooks (API) | none; server-side JavaScript event scripts (no longer actively supported) | Not in the documented API; possible via custom scripts |
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| API spec | OpenAPI 3.0.1 (63 paths / 73 operations, 2018) + deprecated SOAP WSDL | Swagger 2.0 (per instance, /api/doc/swagger.json) |
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| Official SDKs | none current; legacy SOAP sample clients (Java, C#, PHP) | None server-side; Keepicker web component (official) |
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