| Vendor | Montala Limited | Tenovos Corporation |
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| HQ | UK (Watchfield, Oxfordshire) | USA (New York, NY) |
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| Founded | 2006 | 2018 |
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| Ownership | independent (100% employee-owned via an Employee Ownership Trust since 2020-10) | independent, VC-backed (S4S Ventures, BDMI, Progress Ventures, Revel Partners, Dublin Capital Partners, UCIG) |
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| Target market | Mid-market | Enterprise |
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| Deployment | SaaS, On-premise | SaaS |
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| Hosting regions | UK | Not public |
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| Pricing model | free open-source software (BSD-style licence); paid annual hosting + support packages (4 public tiers) | quote-only (demo request); Tenovos Glass also listed on AWS Marketplace |
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| Public pricing | Yes | No |
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| SSO | SAML, LDAP | Not public |
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| Certifications | ISO 27001 | SOC2 |
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| Analyst coverage | Not public | IDC MarketScape Worldwide Intelligent DAM 2024: Leader · Forrester Wave DAM for Customer Experience Q1 2022: Strong Performer |
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| OpenAPI spec | No | Yes |
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| Webhooks (overview) | PartialAPI Webhooks plugin: user-triggered outbound POST buttons, no event subscriptions | Yes |
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| Official MCP server | NoMCP API interface on the official 11.1 roadmap, planned 2027-02-23, status Scoping; unreleased prototype in a public SVN branch | No |
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| API base URL | https://{host}/api/ | https://api.tenovos.io/v1 (v1.5, all customers); UAT: https://api.uat.tenovos.io/v1 |
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| Authentication | API key, Session login | API key, JWT, OAuth 2.0 authorization code |
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| Token lifetime | User key: no expiry documented; session key tied to login session | Access token 1 h; refresh token usable up to 30 days |
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| Rate limit | None documented (API throttling on the 11.2 roadmap, not yet scheduled) | Not documented; x-ratelimit-limit 60000 / reset 60 seen on a 401 (observed) |
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| Pagination | offset (do_search fetchrows "offset,limit" returns total + data; offset param) | offset from/limit (max 100, search window 10,000); cursor scan for deep paging |
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| Webhooks (API) | none (API Webhooks plugin = user-triggered outbound POST buttons) | API- or admin-UI-managed; HMAC-SHA256 signed; 8 attempts with back-off |
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| API spec | none published (KB-described per-instance OpenAPI generator absent from 11.0 code) | OpenAPI 3.0 (v1.5, 127 ops) + Content Intelligence API + webhooks OpenAPI 3.1 |
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| Official SDKs | none official (built-in API test tool generates PHP and cURL code) | none official (Node.js training samples only) |
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