| Vendor | Pimcore GmbH | Montala Limited |
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| HQ | Austria (Salzburg) | UK (Watchfield, Oxfordshire) |
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| Founded | 2013 | 2006 |
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| Ownership | independent (venture-backed; Series B led by Nordwind Growth, 2022) | independent (100% employee-owned via an Employee Ownership Trust since 2020-10) |
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| Target market | Mid-market, enterprise | Mid-market |
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| Deployment | On-premise, Private cloud, PaaS | SaaS, On-premise |
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| Hosting regions | Not public | UK |
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| Pricing model | annual subscription per edition (no per-user fees); Community free below EUR/USD 5M revenue; PaaS tiers | free open-source software (BSD-style licence); paid annual hosting + support packages (4 public tiers) |
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| SSO | OIDC | SAML, LDAP |
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| Certifications | None published | ISO 27001 |
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| Analyst coverage | 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 | Not public |
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| API style (overview) | REST, GraphQL, webdav | REST |
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| OpenAPI spec | Partial | No |
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| Webhooks (overview) | YesDatahub Webhooks, Enterprise edition only | PartialAPI Webhooks plugin: user-triggered outbound POST buttons, no event subscriptions |
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| Official MCP server | Yesself-hosted, experimental: Datahub Simple REST MCP endpoint (Enterprise) and Pimcore Agent MCP tool groups | 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 | https://{host}/pimcore-graphql-webservices/{config} · https://{host}/pimcore-studio/api | https://{host}/api/ |
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| API styles | REST, GraphQL, WebDAV | REST |
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| Authentication | API key, Session login, OAuth 2.0 PKCE, Personal token | API key, Session login |
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| Token lifetime | OAuth 2.1 (experimental): access 1 h, refresh 30 days (defaults); API keys static | User key: no expiry documented; session key tied to login session |
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| Rate limit | Studio API 500 req/min per IP, MCP 3,000/min (defaults, configurable); Datahub: none documented | None documented (API throttling on the 11.2 roadmap, not yet scheduled) |
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| Pagination | GraphQL first/after offset; Studio page/pageSize; Simple REST page_cursor (search_after) | offset (do_search fetchrows "offset,limit" returns total + data; offset param) |
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| Webhooks (API) | Datahub Webhooks (Enterprise): UI-configured, custom headers, no signature, one attempt | none (API Webhooks plugin = user-triggered outbound POST buttons) |
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| API spec | OpenAPI 3.1 for Studio API on GitHub (POCL, not archived); GraphQL schema per endpoint | none published (KB-described per-instance OpenAPI generator absent from 11.0 code) |
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| Official SDKs | none official (PHP API in-process; Studio UI SDK for plugins) | none official (built-in API test tool generates PHP and cURL code) |
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