#5 in Brand & Asset ManagementUpdated 2026-08

Piwigo

by Piwigo · Open source photo management for large libraries

12.9 — BenchRank score out of 100

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Overview

Piwigo is open source photo management software for organising and sharing photos and other digital media on the web. It arranges images in album hierarchies with tags, batch management for bulk changes, and permissions that control who can see each album. It can be downloaded and self-hosted or run on Piwigo's cloud hosting.

Best for: Organisations, teams and individuals cataloguing large photo libraries in a self-run web gallery.
Pricing: The site calls Piwigo free and open source and offers either a download or cloud hosting, but shows no prices.

Strengths and trade-offs

Strengths

Built for libraries of thousands to hundreds of thousands of photos
Open source: code can be audited, edited and extended
Album hierarchy, batch management and permissions control
In development since 2002; current release 16.4.0

Trade-offs

You either self-host the download or pay for cloud hosting
No price is shown for the cloud hosting option
Customisation depends on separate plugins and themes
Scope is photos and digital media only

How this score is made up

Each dimension is scored out of 100 and combined into the headline score using fixed weights.

MCP support: 0 out of 100
Documentation: 0 out of 100
Agent friendliness: 42 out of 100
Pricing transparency: 15 out of 100
Changelog: 0 out of 100
Marketing site structure: 40 out of 100
Operational trust: 0 out of 100

Measured, but not part of the score

Useful to know, but not a mark for or against the product — so these do not affect the ranking.

Openness: 40 out of 100
Maintenance: 100 out of 100

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