| Vendor | OpenText (Open Text Corporation) | Alchemy |
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| HQ | Canada (Waterloo, Ontario) | France (Paris) |
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| Founded | 1991 | 1996 |
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| Ownership | public (NASDAQ/TSX OTEX) | independent (privately held French SARL) |
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| Target market | Enterprise (upper mid-market to large enterprise) | SMB to enterprise (companies, public sector, photographers) |
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| Deployment | SaaS, Private cloud, On-premise | SaaS, On-premise |
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| Hosting regions | US, UK, EU, Canada, Australia | Not public |
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| Pricing model | quote-only; annual subscription or perpetual/term licence (G-Cloud 14 list price GBP 240/user/year) | 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 | SAML, OAuth 2.0, LDAP | SAML, OIDC |
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| Certifications | ISO 27001, ISO 27017, SOC 1 Type 2, SOC 2 Type 2 | None published |
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| Analyst coverage | 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 | Not public |
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| Webhooks (overview) | No | Yes |
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| API base URL | https://{tenant}/otmmapi/v6 | Phrasea: https://api-databox.{domain}/ · Phraseanet: https://{host}/api/v3/ |
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| Authentication | Session login, OAuth 2.0 client credentials, OAuth 2.0 password | 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 | Unknown (session and OTDS OAuth token lifetimes are not published) | Phrasea: Keycloak realm setting (Not public); Phraseanet v1: tokens do not expire |
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| Rate limit | Not public (single-tenant installs; no limit documented) | Phraseanet v1: none; Phrasea SaaS plans: 5-40 concurrent requests + request quotas |
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| Pagination | offset: after/before + limit (Core DAM: offset/count, default 25) | Phrasea: page + limit (max 100); Phraseanet v3: offset/limit or page/per_page (max 100) |
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| Webhooks (API) | none; per-job callback URL (GET/POST) on import/export jobs | Phrasea: admin-managed entity events, unsigned; Phraseanet: per OAuth app, 17 events |
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| API spec | OpenAPI 3.0.1: OTMM CE 23.2 (247 ops) + Core DAM v1 (12 ops) | OpenAPI 3.1.0 Databox (239 ops) + Expose (37 ops); Phraseanet v3 OpenAPI 3.0.3 (7 ops) |
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| Official SDKs | Java representations JAR shipped with the server; no public package | Phraseanet PHP SDK (last release 2021); no official Phrasea SDK |
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