| Vendor | Portfolio DAM, LLC (Axle AI) | Pimcore GmbH |
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| HQ | USA (Woburn, MA) | Austria (Salzburg) |
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| Founded | 2026 | 2013 |
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| Ownership | subsidiary of Axle AI, Inc. (acquired from Extensis/Monotype, 2026-03-09) | independent (venture-backed; Series B led by Nordwind Growth, 2022) |
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| Target market | SMB to enterprise workgroups (on-premise, archives, creative and print teams) | Mid-market, enterprise |
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| Deployment | On-premise, Private cloud | On-premise, Private cloud, PaaS |
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| Pricing model | subscription by seats, asset limit and add-on modules; quote-based | annual subscription per edition (no per-user fees); Community free below EUR/USD 5M revenue; PaaS tiers |
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| Public pricing | No | Yes |
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| SSO | LDAP, kerberos | OIDC |
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| Analyst coverage | Not public | Gartner MQ PIM 2026: Visionary (vendor-reported) · Gartner MQ MDM 2026: Niche Player · Gartner MQ DXP 2025: included (placement not stated) · Gartner Peer Insights VoC DXP 2024: Customers' Choice |
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| API style (overview) | REST, SOAP | REST, GraphQL, webdav |
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| OpenAPI spec | Yes | Partial |
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| Webhooks (overview) | No | YesDatahub Webhooks, Enterprise edition only |
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| Official MCP server | No | Yesself-hosted, experimental: Datahub Simple REST MCP endpoint (Enterprise) and Pimcore Agent MCP tool groups |
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| API base URL | http(s)://{server}:8090/api/v1 (HTTPS on 9443); self-hosted | https://{host}/pimcore-graphql-webservices/{config} · https://{host}/pimcore-studio/api |
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| API styles | REST, SOAP | REST, GraphQL, WebDAV |
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| Authentication | Session login, API key | API key, Session login, OAuth 2.0 PKCE, Personal token |
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| Token lifetime | Session expires on inactivity (duration Not public); API Token never times out | OAuth 2.1 (experimental): access 1 h, refresh 30 days (defaults); API keys static |
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| Rate limit | Not public (self-hosted server; no documented throttle) | Studio API 500 req/min per IP, MCP 3,000/min (defaults, configurable); Datahub: none documented |
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| Pagination | offset (startingIndex + pageSize, default 1,000) | GraphQL first/after offset; Studio page/pageSize; Simple REST page_cursor (search_after) |
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| Webhooks (API) | none; server-side JavaScript event scripts (no longer actively supported) | Datahub Webhooks (Enterprise): UI-configured, custom headers, no signature, one attempt |
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| API spec | OpenAPI 3.0.1 (63 paths / 73 operations, 2018) + deprecated SOAP WSDL | OpenAPI 3.1 for Studio API on GitHub (POCL, not archived); GraphQL schema per endpoint |
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| Official SDKs | none current; legacy SOAP sample clients (Java, C#, PHP) | none official (PHP API in-process; Studio UI SDK for plugins) |
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