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At the Smugmug power and pro levels, what are the main feature differences between Smugmug and Zenfolio?

For context here, I'm currently a Smugmug customer. I'm not anticipating a change to Zenfolio, but I get asked all the time about which service is a better fit and what the actual feature differences are between Smugmug and Zenfolio so I'd like to be better educated on those feature differences and when one service is a better fit for a user vs. the other.

In addition to general feature differences, I'd also like to know if there are any substantive differences in the ability to customize the site and in site performance and if people trying to make a business out of selling photos find important feature differences between the two?

Please do not respond with which site you like as this is not a call for opinions. We're looking for factual differences and how those differences matter to various types of users.

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This is a question asking for the factual differences between the two services. I can see no reason why it should have been closed. Note: I did not ask which service was better. I asked what the differences were between them. I also would suggest that when a moderator just whacks a question like this that they post some info about why - particular in the beta period. – jfriend00 Feb 6 '12 at 22:08
@dpollitt - I used the smugmugdifferences tag because this post by a Smugmug employee had used it so I thought it was going to be a common tag for posts like this that compared Smugmug to something else. I don't feel strongly either way, just thought either both of these posts or neither or these posts should use it to be consistent. – jfriend00 Feb 7 '12 at 1:49
Good point, I don't think either of the tags added in that thread are valid "smugdifferences" or "whysmugmug". I removed both on that post as well. I think here tags like "comparison,feature,feature-comparison" or similar would fit. Appending or prefixing with "Smug" makes no sense. – dpollitt♦ Feb 7 '12 at 3:27
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I'm not sure this is a very good question for SM.SE for a variety of reasons, the biggest being that both products are rapidly moving targets and the answer(s) will likely drift fast. That being said, if there's enough interest, I'm sure someone will answer... – Don MacAskill Feb 9 '12 at 22:55

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I use both of the services - SmugMug is Great and Zenfolio is great. You need to decide what you want. Zenfolio has EU Labs. SmugMug has great USA Labs. Zenfolio accept files up to 45MB - SmugMug now accepts up to 50Mb files. To customise your website on Zenfolio - no coding, just a matter of pressing the button (very easy). SmugMug you have to code - but that makes your website unique. You can make the website look as you want (but you need to know CSS, Java and HTML) - or you hire someone for that. SmugMug for me has two features over Zenfolio - SEO (keywords which are visible through search engines) and the size of the displayed thumbnails and images - they are huge! You can see it for yourself my zenfolio http://www.photom.zenfolio.com and my smugmug http://www.photom.smugmug.com

Recently as well Zenfolio has introduced a blog tool on their photo hosting - have a look http://photom.zenfolio.com/blog

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SmugMug now allows for 50Mb files and up to 100 Megapixels. I edited your answer. – Andy Williams Feb 17 '12 at 21:50
Andy this is a great news. I do not remember that it was announced and the smugmug features website now states 24MB. Great news about the file size! Thanks for that! – Tomasz Nowicki Feb 18 '12 at 12:20
Andy I have tried to upload a panorama 45MB and it does not allow me to upload files that large. – Tomasz Nowicki Feb 26 '12 at 16:57
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Tomasz I've been uploading 100mpix files and 40+ mb each, all morning in testing. Is your file > 50mb? Got to be under 100 megapixels and under 50 megabytes both. – Andy Williams Feb 26 '12 at 20:28
Er, sorry, I see you said it is 45mb - is it greater than 100megapixels? Which uploader and which browser and version are you using? – Andy Williams Feb 26 '12 at 21:24
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