| Vendor | Portfolio DAM, LLC (Axle AI) | Alchemy |
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| HQ | USA (Woburn, MA) | France (Paris) |
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| Founded | 2026 | 1996 |
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| Ownership | subsidiary of Axle AI, Inc. (acquired from Extensis/Monotype, 2026-03-09) | independent (privately held French SARL) |
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| Target market | SMB to enterprise workgroups (on-premise, archives, creative and print teams) | SMB to enterprise (companies, public sector, photographers) |
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| Deployment | On-premise, Private cloud | SaaS, On-premise |
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| Pricing model | subscription by seats, asset limit and add-on modules; quote-based | free open-source licence; SaaS plans by workspaces, storage and request quotas (from €169/month); services packs |
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| Public pricing | No | Yes |
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| SSO | LDAP, kerberos | SAML, OIDC |
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| API style (overview) | REST, SOAP | REST |
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| Webhooks (overview) | No | Yes |
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| API base URL | http(s)://{server}:8090/api/v1 (HTTPS on 9443); self-hosted | Phrasea: https://api-databox.{domain}/ · Phraseanet: https://{host}/api/v3/ |
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| API styles | REST, SOAP | REST |
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| Authentication | Session login, API key | OAuth 2.0 authorization code, OAuth 2.0 PKCE, OAuth 2.0 client credentials, OAuth 2.0 password, API key |
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| Token lifetime | Session expires on inactivity (duration Not public); API Token never times out | Phrasea: Keycloak realm setting (Not public); Phraseanet v1: tokens do not expire |
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| Rate limit | Not public (self-hosted server; no documented throttle) | Phraseanet v1: none; Phrasea SaaS plans: 5-40 concurrent requests + request quotas |
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| Pagination | offset (startingIndex + pageSize, default 1,000) | Phrasea: page + limit (max 100); Phraseanet v3: offset/limit or page/per_page (max 100) |
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| Webhooks (API) | none; server-side JavaScript event scripts (no longer actively supported) | Phrasea: admin-managed entity events, unsigned; Phraseanet: per OAuth app, 17 events |
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| API spec | OpenAPI 3.0.1 (63 paths / 73 operations, 2018) + deprecated SOAP WSDL | OpenAPI 3.1.0 Databox (239 ops) + Expose (37 ops); Phraseanet v3 OpenAPI 3.0.3 (7 ops) |
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| Official SDKs | none current; legacy SOAP sample clients (Java, C#, PHP) | Phraseanet PHP SDK (last release 2021); no official Phrasea SDK |
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