| Vendor | Montala Limited | Wedia (Wedia SA) |
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| HQ | UK (Watchfield, Oxfordshire) | France (Paris) |
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| Founded | 2006 | 2001 |
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| Ownership | independent (100% employee-owned via an Employee Ownership Trust since 2020-10) | PE-backed (Cathay Capital Private Equity, with founder and management; delisted from Euronext Growth 2024-12-04) |
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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; Media Delivery billed on monthly credit consumption |
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| Public pricing | Yes | No |
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| SSO | SAML, LDAP | SAML, OIDC, OAuth 2.0, LDAP |
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| Certifications | ISO 27001 | ISO 27001, TISAX |
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| Analyst coverage | Not public | Gartner MQ DAM Platforms 2025: Niche Player (unconfirmed) · Forrester Now Tech DAM for CX Q2 2021 · Gartner Market Guide DAM 2020 |
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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 | No |
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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://{tenant}.wedia-group.com/api/rest |
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| Authentication | API key, Session login | Basic auth, JWT, API key |
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| Token lifetime | User key: no expiry documented; session key tied to login session | Access 1,200 s (20 min), refresh 86,400 s (24 h) by default; configurable |
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| Rate limit | None documented (API throttling on the 11.2 roadmap, not yet scheduled) | Not public |
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| Pagination | offset (do_search fetchrows "offset,limit" returns total + data; offset param) | offset (from/max, default 50, max 200) or continuation tokens (after/before) |
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| Webhooks (API) | none (API Webhooks plugin = user-triggered outbound POST buttons) | No outbound webhook API documented; server-side Java plug-ins |
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| API spec | none published (KB-described per-instance OpenAPI generator absent from 11.0 code) | OpenAPI 3.0 generated per server (dam, data, media, json) |
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| Official SDKs | none official (built-in API test tool generates PHP and cURL code) | None server-side; Content Picker JS (official) |
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