| Vendor | Portfolio DAM, LLC (Axle AI) | Montala Limited |
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| HQ | USA (Woburn, MA) | UK (Watchfield, Oxfordshire) |
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| Founded | 2026 | 2006 |
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| Ownership | subsidiary of Axle AI, Inc. (acquired from Extensis/Monotype, 2026-03-09) | independent (100% employee-owned via an Employee Ownership Trust since 2020-10) |
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| Target market | SMB to enterprise workgroups (on-premise, archives, creative and print teams) | Mid-market |
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| Deployment | On-premise, Private cloud | SaaS, On-premise |
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| Hosting regions | Not public | UK |
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| Pricing model | subscription by seats, asset limit and add-on modules; quote-based | free open-source software (BSD-style licence); paid annual hosting + support packages (4 public tiers) |
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| Public pricing | No | Yes |
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| SSO | LDAP, kerberos | SAML, LDAP |
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| Certifications | None published | ISO 27001 |
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| API style (overview) | REST, SOAP | REST |
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| OpenAPI spec | Yes | No |
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| Webhooks (overview) | No | PartialAPI Webhooks plugin: user-triggered outbound POST buttons, no event subscriptions |
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| Official MCP server | No | NoMCP API interface on the official 11.1 roadmap, planned 2027-02-23, status Scoping; unreleased prototype in a public SVN branch |
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| API base URL | http(s)://{server}:8090/api/v1 (HTTPS on 9443); self-hosted | https://{host}/api/ |
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| API styles | REST, SOAP | REST |
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| Authentication | Session login, API key | API key, Session login |
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| Token lifetime | Session expires on inactivity (duration Not public); API Token never times out | User key: no expiry documented; session key tied to login session |
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| Rate limit | Not public (self-hosted server; no documented throttle) | None documented (API throttling on the 11.2 roadmap, not yet scheduled) |
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| Pagination | offset (startingIndex + pageSize, default 1,000) | offset (do_search fetchrows "offset,limit" returns total + data; offset param) |
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| Webhooks (API) | none; server-side JavaScript event scripts (no longer actively supported) | none (API Webhooks plugin = user-triggered outbound POST buttons) |
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| API spec | OpenAPI 3.0.1 (63 paths / 73 operations, 2018) + deprecated SOAP WSDL | none published (KB-described per-instance OpenAPI generator absent from 11.0 code) |
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| Official SDKs | none current; legacy SOAP sample clients (Java, C#, PHP) | none official (built-in API test tool generates PHP and cURL code) |
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