| Vendor | ImageKit Private Limited (India), with US subsidiary ImageKit Inc | OpenText (Open Text Corporation) |
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| HQ | India (New Delhi); US entity in Newark, Delaware | Canada (Waterloo, Ontario) |
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| Founded | 2016 | 1991 |
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| Ownership | independent, privately held (no external funding round disclosed) | public (NASDAQ/TSX OTEX) |
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| Target market | SMB to mid-market (self-serve plans); Enterprise plans for SSO, governance and custom limits | Enterprise (upper mid-market to large enterprise) |
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| Deployment | SaaS | SaaS, Private cloud, On-premise |
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| Hosting regions | US, Canada, EU, in, sg, Australia | US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia |
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| Pricing model | Media Processing + DAM: Free, Lite $9/mo, Pro $89/mo plus usage overage; Enterprise quote-only; separate DAM-only plans | quote-only; annual subscription or perpetual/term licence (G-Cloud 14 list price GBP 240/user/year) |
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| Public pricing | Yes | No |
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| SSO | SAML | SAML, OAuth 2.0, LDAP |
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| Certifications | ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type 2 | ISO 27001, ISO 27017, SOC 1 Type 2, SOC 2 Type 2 |
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| Analyst coverage | Not public | Forrester Wave DAM Systems Q1 2026: Leader · IDC MarketScape Intelligent DAM 2024: Leader · Omdia Universe DXM 2025-26: Leader · Forrester Wave DAM for CX Q4 2019: Leader |
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| Webhooks (overview) | Yes | No |
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| Official MCP server | Yes3 hosted remote servers - DAM, Admin (OAuth) and DevTools (public) | No |
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| API base URL | https://api.imagekit.io/v1/… (management); https://upload.imagekit.io/api/v1|v2/files/upload | https://{tenant}/otmmapi/v6 |
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| Authentication | Basic auth, API key, JWT, OAuth 2.0 PKCE | Session login, OAuth 2.0 client credentials, OAuth 2.0 password |
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| Token lifetime | API keys: no expiry (rotate with 0 h to 7 d grace); client upload signature/JWT ≤ 1 h | Unknown (session and OTDS OAuth token lifetimes are not published) |
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| Rate limit | Burst + sustained per endpoint, HTTP 429; ~40 reads/s, 5-20 writes/s advised; Upload API unlimited | Not public (single-tenant installs; no limit documented) |
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| Pagination | offset (skip/limit, max 1,000) on file listing; cursor on tag listing | offset: after/before + limit (Core DAM: offset/count, default 25) |
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| Webhooks (API) | Dashboard or API, 15 event types, Standard Webhooks HMAC-SHA256, max 3 endpoints | none; per-job callback URL (GET/POST) on import/export jobs |
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| API spec | OpenAPI 3.1.0 (1 file, 60 operations), Apache-2.0 | OpenAPI 3.0.1: OTMM CE 23.2 (247 ops) + Core DAM v1 (12 ops) |
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| Official SDKs | Node.js/TS, Python, Go, Java, Ruby, .NET, PHP, JS, React, Vue, Angular, Next.js, Astro, iOS, Android | Java representations JAR shipped with the server; no public package |
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