Artifact and container registries for small business buyers
Asked as “artifact repository”, and as “container registry”, on behalf of a small B2B company. 58 first choices recorded across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, fourteen models each. Added to the November 2026 Edition.
Standing · first-choice share
50%
Clear leader
50GitHub Packages12Sonatype Nexus Repository09GitLab Package Registry29others
50% of first choices, clear leader.
Since October 2026▲+17Since October 2026: 33% → 50%, +17 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement.GitHub Packages held the lead, +17 points on 33%, past the floor.
By buyer segment
The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment; they sit side by side and are never added together.
Small businessGitHub Packages50%Clear leader▲+17Since October 2026: 33% → 50%, +17 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement.This pageMid-market
Sonatype Nexus Repository28%Contested▲+6Since October 2026: 22% → 28%, +6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.Standing →Enterprise
JFrog Artifactory51%Clear leader▲+5Since October 2026: 46% → 51%, +5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.Standing →
Sonatype Nexus Repository28%Contested▲+6Since October 2026: 22% → 28%, +6 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.Standing →EnterpriseJFrog Artifactory51%Clear leader▲+5Since October 2026: 46% → 51%, +5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.Standing →The standing
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, over all fourteen models, for a small B2B company. Ordered by share.
ProductFirst-choice shareNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince October 2026
01GitHub Packages50%8%74endorsed leader▲+17Since October 2026: 33% → 50%, +17 points. Past the 11-point floor: movement.33% → 50%
02Sonatype Nexus Repository12%19%32accepted challenger▼−4Since October 2026: 16% → 12%, −4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.16% → 12%
Sonatype Nexus Repository12%19%32accepted challenger▼−4Since October 2026: 16% → 12%, −4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.16% → 12%03
GitLab Package Registry9%3%34accepted challenger▼−1Since October 2026: 10% → 9%, −1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.10% → 9%
GitLab Package Registry9%3%34accepted challenger▼−1Since October 2026: 10% → 9%, −1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.10% → 9%04
Cloudsmith5%11%28accepted challenger▲+2Since October 2026: 3% → 5%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.3% → 5%
Cloudsmith5%11%28accepted challenger▲+2Since October 2026: 3% → 5%, +2 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.3% → 5%05Amazon ECR3%0%16accepted challenger▲+3Since October 2026: 0% → 3%, +3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 3%
06AWS CodeArtifact3%19%27accepted challenger▲+1Since October 2026: 2% → 3%, +1 point. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.2% → 3%
07Azure Artifacts3%0%16accepted challenger▲+3Since October 2026: 0% → 3%, +3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 3%
08JFrog Artifactory2%58%48criticized challenger▼−4Since October 2026: 6% → 2%, −4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.6% → 2%
JFrog Artifactory2%58%48criticized challenger▼−4Since October 2026: 6% → 2%, −4 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.6% → 2%09
Docker Hub2%62%42criticized challenger▼−3Since October 2026: 5% → 2%, −3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.5% → 2%
Docker Hub2%62%42criticized challenger▼−3Since October 2026: 5% → 2%, −3 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.5% → 2%Show the four products at 0%, ordered by negative rate
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Harbor0%44%36criticized challenger▼−5Since October 2026: 5% → 0%, −5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.5% → 0%
Harbor0%44%36criticized challenger▼−5Since October 2026: 5% → 0%, −5 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.5% → 0%12AWS ECR0%20%15accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
10Google Artifact Registry Lab in the set0%7%41accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
11Azure Container Registry0%7%30accepted challenger=heldSince October 2026: 0% → 0%, ±0 points. Inside the 11-point floor: within noise.0% → 0%
The floor is 11 points of share, measured: how far the models move a leader on their own when the same questions are asked twice with nothing changed. A larger change is movement; a smaller one can't be told apart from repeat variation, and both are shown. Each index measures its own floor from its own repeat, over its own categories, so the floor differs from one index to the next. Both editions asked the same fourteen models. How the floor is measured
Bars are the share of first choices, 0 to 100Every product with at least 10 labels here. Every product name links to its product page.
Google Artifact Registry is made by Google, whose model Gemini 3.5 Flash is in the set. On the four share prompts that model made it the first choice zero times of 4; the other thirteen models zero times of 52. Lab treatment is defined on the method page; the row is marked, not excluded.
Head to head
Sonatype Nexus Repository vs JFrog ArtifactorySonatype Nexus Repository vs Amazon ECRSonatype Nexus Repository vs GitHub Packages
Head-to-head pages are published for mid-market buyers, so these open on mid-market figures, not small business.All twenty-eight head-to-head pages: the top eight products, each against each
Sonatype Nexus Repository vs HarborSonatype Nexus Repository vs Azure Container RegistrySonatype Nexus Repository vs Google Artifact RegistrySonatype Nexus Repository vs CloudsmithJFrog Artifactory vs Amazon ECRJFrog Artifactory vs GitHub PackagesJFrog Artifactory vs HarborJFrog Artifactory vs Azure Container RegistryJFrog Artifactory vs Google Artifact RegistryJFrog Artifactory vs CloudsmithAmazon ECR vs GitHub PackagesAmazon ECR vs HarborAmazon ECR vs Azure Container RegistryAmazon ECR vs Google Artifact RegistryAmazon ECR vs CloudsmithGitHub Packages vs HarborGitHub Packages vs Azure Container RegistryGitHub Packages vs Google Artifact RegistryGitHub Packages vs CloudsmithHarbor vs Azure Container RegistryHarbor vs Google Artifact RegistryHarbor vs CloudsmithAzure Container Registry vs Google Artifact RegistryAzure Container Registry vs CloudsmithGoogle Artifact Registry vs Cloudsmith
Recommended versus criticized
Every product with at least 10 labels here, on both axes. The 30% line names a quadrant, not the verdict above: that one needs more than 40%.
Criticized challengerCriticized default
Negative label rate →
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020304A05
A06
A07
0809G10
A11
A12
13Accepted challengerEndorsed leader
0%First-choice share → · lines at 30% share and 25% negative70%
Key
01GitHub Packages50%
02Sonatype Nexus Repository12%
Sonatype Nexus Repository12%03GitLab Package Registry9%
GitLab Package Registry9%04Cloudsmith5%
Cloudsmith5%05Amazon ECR3%
06AWS CodeArtifact3%
07Azure Artifacts3%
08JFrog Artifactory2%
JFrog Artifactory2%09Docker Hub2%
Docker Hub2%10Google Artifact Registry0%
11Azure Container Registry0%
12AWS ECR0%
13Harbor0%
Harbor0%What they warned about
Six of fourteen models held their first choice under the paraphrase. Claude Haiku 4.5, GPT-5.4 mini, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Qwen 3.7 Flash, GLM 4.7 FlashX, MiniMax M2.5, GPT-6 Luna and Muse Glimmer 30B changed. A high negative share on a product with few labels is a warning. A low share on a product with many labels is salience, not sentiment.
Docker Hub62%
26 of 42 labels negative · 14 of 14 models · 9 hard negative
“Production images should not be pulled directly from Docker Hub due to rate limits, the possibility of public image compromise, and namespace squatting.” Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt
JFrog Artifactory58%
28 of 48 labels negative · 12 of 14 models · 2 hard negative
“Avoid JFrog Artifactory and AWS CodeArtifact if budget is a major concern” Mistral Small, budget prompt
Harbor44%
16 of 36 labels negative · 9 of 14 models · 4 hard negative
“running your own Docker Registry or Harbor on bare metal... Avoid unless you have dedicated DevOps expertise.” DeepSeek V4 Flash, negative prompt
GitHub Packages
8%
6 of 74 labels negative · 6 of 14 models · 1 hard negative
“avoid it for proprietary, business-critical production applications” GLM 4.7 FlashX, negative prompt
What they cite
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted.
Sites the answers cite
66 of 84 answers in this category came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models: citations where the model returns them, or the search results it consulted. 703 links across 170 sites, every framing counted. Ranked by the number of answers carrying the site or page. 50 of the 252 answers across every segment cited this index's own page for the category; the method page measures whether that reading tilts an answer.
vendor site · GitHub28 answers · 48 citations · 9 models
25 answers · 28 citations · 9 models
vendor site · CloudRepo23 answers · 32 citations · 10 models
publisher (Gane)22 answers · 23 citations · 9 models
18 answers · 18 citations · 9 models
17 answers · 17 citations · 9 models
16 answers · 18 citations · 7 models
vendor site · JFrog15 answers · 24 citations · 9 models
vendor site · Google13 answers · 14 citations · 9 models
13 answers · 14 citations · 8 models
12 answers · 17 citations · 8 models
vendor site · GitHub12 answers · 17 citations · 5 models
Pages the answers cite
The ten pages named in the most answers, by full address. A page here is one the models returned with a recommendation, not one the index endorses.
25 answers · 9 models
21 answers · 8 models
18 answers · 9 models
17 answers · 9 models
13 answers · 8 models
12 answers · 7 models
11 answers · 6 models
11 answers · 7 models
11 answers · 9 models
10 answers · 7 models
Search against answers
Each company's standing in the answers beside its site's footprint in Google search, one row a site: the products the models named on it with their shares, and the share they add up to; monthly searches on Google, and DataForSEO's estimate of AI search demand (modeled from search signals, directional, not a count of queries to any assistant), for the most-searched of the company's and its products' names (the name is in each row's hover text); estimated monthly organic visits to the site; and its best position in Google's top ten for “artifact and container registries”, “artifact repository”, “best artifact repository”. US estimates from DataForSEO and Google's Ads Transparency Center. A small company's site, or a mid-sized company's site for its flagship, is marked company; a product on a large parent's site (Google, Microsoft) has no site figures. A column with no figures for this category is left out, and an empty cell means none were seen, not none exist. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.
| Company and products | Share | Own site cited | Name searches, Google | AI search demand, est. | Organic visits | Paid search a month, est. | Google ads, last 30 days | Best Google position |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub github.io GitHub Packages 50% | 50% | 135 | 1,500,000 | 31,479 | 3,010 | |||
| Sonatype sonatype.com Sonatype Nexus Repository 12%, Sonatype Lifecycle 0% | 12% | 121 | 720 | 38 | 71,814 company | $1,879 | 7 | 5 |
| GitLab parent site GitLab Package Registry 9% | 9% | 45 | 90,500 | 4,844 | ||||
| Cloudsmith cloudsmith.com | 5% | 65 | 1,300 | 25 | 3,190 | $982 | 34 | |
| CloudRepo cloudrepo.io | 5% | 17 | 20 | 0 | 707 | |||
| Amazon parent site Amazon ECR 3%, Amazon Elastic Container Registry 0% | 3% | 40 | 151,000,000 | 1,380,939 | ||||
| AWS parent site AWS CodeArtifact 3%, AWS ECR 0% | 3% | 53 | 368,000 | 114,001 | ||||
| Azure azure.com Azure Artifacts 3%, Azure Container Registry 0% | 3% | 90 | 301,000 | 47,904 | ||||
| Nexus Repository OSS | 3% | |||||||
| GitHub github.com | 2% | 216 | 1,500,000 | 31,479 | 42,019,137 | $81 | 14 |
Google's top ten for the three searches hold 21 sites; 3 of them are among the sites the models cited here (docs.cloud.google.com, jfrog.com, reddit.com). The first result for “artifact and container registries” is docs.cloud.google.com.
How they answered
Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.ShowHide
How they answered
Six framings of the same buying question, each sent to every model in a fresh session with search on. One row per model, so a row shows whether it held its answer under rewording, what it named when cost was the constraint, and what it argued against. Computed from the raw judge labels.
ShowHideModelDirect“What is the best artifact repository for a small B2B company?”Paraphrase“Which container registry would you recommend to a small business that sells to other businesses?”Comparative“What are the top artifact and container registries for a small team and how do they differ?”Budget-constrained“What is the best artifact repository for a small company with a tight budget?”Scale-constrained“We are a 30 person company evaluating an artifact repository. What should we look at?”Negative“Which artifact and container registries should a small business avoid or be cautious about?”
Claude Haiku 4.5AWS CodeArtifact, Azure ArtifactsGitHub PackagesChangedGitHub PackagesGitHub Packages, Nexus Repository OSSno first choiceagainst: Artifact Registry, Docker Hub, ECR Public
Two alternatives
GitHub Packages, Nexus RepositoryOne alternative
Docker HubSix alternatives
AWS ECR, Azure Container Registry, Docker Hub, Google Artifact Registry, JFrog Artifactory, JFrog Container RegistryGPT-5.4 miniSonatype Nexus RepositoryAmazon ECRChangedagainst: GitHub PackagesGitHub Packagesagainst: Docker HubGitHub Packagesagainst: JFrog Artifactory OSSno first choiceagainst: Docker Hub
Two alternatives
AWS CodeArtifact, JFrog ArtifactoryTwo alternatives
Artifact Registry, Azure Container RegistryFive alternatives
Amazon Elastic Container Registry, Azure Container Registry, Google Artifact Registry, JFrog Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus RepositoryTwo alternatives
GitLab Package Registry, Sonatype Nexus RepositoryGemini 3.5 FlashGitHub Packages, GitLab Package Registryagainst: JFrog Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus RepositoryCloudsmithChangedagainst: Docker HubGitHub Packagesagainst: JFrog Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus RepositoryGitHub Packages, GitLab Package RegistryCloudsmithagainst: JFrog Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus Repositoryagainst: Docker Hub, Docker Registry, Google Container Registry, Harbor, JFrog Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus Repository
Three alternatives
AWS CodeArtifact, Azure Artifacts, CloudsmithFive alternatives
AWS ECR, Azure Container Registry, GitHub Packages, Google Artifact Registry, ReplicatedFive alternatives
AWS CodeArtifact, Amazon Elastic Container Registry, Docker Hub, GitLab Package Registry, Google Artifact RegistryFive alternatives
AWS CodeArtifact, AWS ECR, GCP Artifact Registry, Harbor, Sonatype Nexus RepositorySeven alternatives
AWS CodeArtifact, Amazon ECR, Azure Artifacts, Container Registry, GitHub Packages, GitLab Package Registry, Google Artifact RegistryPerplexity SonarGitHub Packagesagainst: JFrog ArtifactoryGitHub PackagesHeldagainst: HarborGitHub Packagesagainst: Docker Hub, JFrog ArtifactoryGitHub Packages, GitLab Package Registryno first choiceagainst: Artifact Hub, Docker Hub, GitHub Packages, Google Container Registry, Harbor, JFrog Artifactory, Nexus, PyPI, Quay.io, npm
Four alternatives
AWS CodeArtifact, Cloudsmith, GitLab Package Registry, Sonatype Nexus RepositoryFour alternatives
Amazon ECR, Azure Container Registry, Docker Hub, Google Artifact RegistryFive alternatives
Amazon ECR, Azure Container Registry, Cloudsmith, Google Artifact Registry, HarborThree alternatives
AWS CodeArtifact, Harbor, Sonatype Nexus RepositoryGrok 4.20GitHub Packagesagainst: JFrog ArtifactoryGitHub PackagesHeldagainst: HarborAmazon Elastic Container Registry, GitHub Packages, Google Artifact RegistrySonatype Nexus Repositoryagainst: AWS ECR, GCP Artifact RegistryCloudsmith, JFrog Artifactoryagainst: GitHub Packagesagainst: Docker Hub, JFrog Artifactory, Quay.io, Sonatype Lifecycle, Vanilla Docker Registry
Three alternatives
Azure Artifacts, Google Artifact Registry, Sonatype Nexus RepositoryFour alternatives
Amazon ECR, Azure Container Registry, Docker Hub, Google Artifact RegistryFour alternatives
Docker Hub, Harbor, JFrog Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus RepositorySeven alternatives
Azure Artifacts, Cloudsmith, GitHub Packages, GitLab Package Registry, Harbor, JFrog Artifactory OSS, ReposiliteSeven alternatives
AWS CodeArtifact, Artifactory, Artifactory OSS/Enterprise, Azure Artifacts, Harbor, Nexus, Nexus OSSMistral SmallGitHub Packagesagainst: Harbor, JFrog ArtifactoryGitHub PackagesHeldagainst: Docker HubGitHub Packagesagainst: Docker HubGitHub Packagesagainst: AWS CodeArtifact, JFrog Artifactoryno first choiceagainst: Docker Hub, Google Artifact Registry, Harbor, JFrog Artifactory
Three alternatives
Cloudsmith, GitLab Package Registry, Sonatype Nexus RepositoryThree alternatives
ACR, Artifact Registry, ECREight alternatives
AWS CodeArtifact, Amazon Elastic Container Registry, Azure Container Registry, Cloudsmith, GitLab Package Registry, Google Artifact Registry, Harbor, Sonatype Nexus RepositoryTwo alternatives
CloudRepo, Self-hosted Sonatype Nexus RepositoryDeepSeek V4 FlashGitHub Packagesagainst: JFrog ArtifactoryGitHub PackagesHeldagainst: Docker HubGitHub Packagesagainst: JFrog ArtifactorySonatype Nexus Repositoryagainst: Cloudsmith, JFrog ArtifactoryGitHub Packagesagainst: Artifactoryagainst: AWS ECR, Azure Container Registry, Docker Hub, Google Artifact Registry, Harbor, JFrog Artifactory — Cloud Pro, Sonatype Nexus Repository
Two alternatives
Cloudsmith, Sonatype Nexus RepositoryThree alternatives
AWS ECR, Azure Container Registry, Google Artifact RegistryNine alternatives
AWS CodeArtifact, Amazon ECR, Azure Container Registry, Cloudsmith, Docker Hub, GCP Artifact Registry, Google Artifact Registry, Harbor, Sonatype LifecycleTwo alternatives
AWS CodeArtifact, GitHub PackagesFour alternatives
AWS CodeArtifact, Azure Artifacts, Cloudsmith, NexusLlama 4 MaverickGitHub Packagesagainst: JFrog ArtifactoryGitHub PackagesHeldagainst: Docker Hubno first choiceCloudRepoagainst: Nexus Repositoryno first choiceagainst: DockerHub, Quay.io, gcr.io, ghcr.io
One alternative
CloudRepoThree alternatives
Amazon ECR, GitLab Package Registry, HarborOne alternative
GitHub PackagesQwen 3.7 FlashSonatype Nexus RepositoryAmazon ECR, GitHub PackagesChangedagainst: Docker Hub, HarborGitHub Packagesagainst: Harbor, NexusSonatype Nexus Repositoryagainst: JFrog ArtifactoryGitHub, GitLab Package Registryagainst: Bitbucket, Docker Hub, GitHub Packages, Harbor, JFrog Artifactory OSS, Sonatype Nexus Repository
Three alternatives
GitHub Packages, GitLab Package Registry, JFrog ArtifactoryFour alternatives
Amazon Elastic Container Registry, Azure Container Registry, Docker Hub, Google Artifact RegistryThree alternatives
GitHub Packages, GitLab Package Registry, HarborFour alternatives
Amazon ECR, Google Artifact Registry, JFrog Artifactory, Sonatype LifecycleKimi K2GitHub PackagesGitHub PackagesHeldagainst: HarborGitHub Packagesagainst: Docker Hub, Harbor, JFrog ArtifactoryGitHub Packages, GitLab Package Registryagainst: JFrog Artifactory OSSAWS CodeArtifact, Azure Artifacts, GitHub Packagesagainst: JFrog Artifactory, Sonatype Lifecycleagainst: AWS ECR, Azure Container Registry, Docker Hub, Google Artifact Registry, Harbor, raw Docker Registry
Two alternatives
JFrog Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus RepositoryFour alternatives
Amazon ECR, Artifact Registry, Azure Container Registry, Docker HubThree alternatives
AWS ECR, Azure Container Registry, GitLab Package RegistryFour alternatives
AngusRepo, Artifact Keeper, Harbor, Sonatype Nexus RepositoryOne alternative
Sonatype Nexus RepositoryGLM 4.7 FlashXno first choiceGitHub PackagesChangedagainst: Docker Hub, HarborGitHub Packagesagainst: AWS CodeArtifact, JFrog ArtifactorySonatype Nexus Repositoryagainst: AWS CodeArtifact, GitLab Artifact Registry, JFrog Artifactoryno first choiceagainst: Docker Hub, GitHub Packages, GitLab Package Registry, JFrog Artifactory, Maven Central, PyPI, npm
Four alternatives
CloudRepo, GitHub Packages, JFrog Artifactory, Nexus Repository Community EditionFive alternatives
ACR, Artifact Registry, ECR, GitLab Package Registry, Railway's integrated registrySix alternatives
Azure Container Registry, Docker Hub, Google Artifact Registry, Harbor, Quay.io, Sonatype LifecycleThree alternatives
CloudRepo, GitHub Packages, OpenArtifactSeven alternatives
AWS CodeArtifact, AngusRepo, Artifactory, Cloudsmith, GitHub Packages, Nexus OSS, Sonatype LifecycleMiniMax M2.5GitHub Packagesno first choiceChangedGitHub Packages, GitLab Package Registryagainst: Docker Hub, Google Container RegistryNexus Repository OSSno first choiceagainst: Cloudsmith, Docker Hub Free Tier, JFrog Artifactory
Six alternatives
AWS CodeArtifact, Azure Artifacts, Cloudsmith, GitLab Package Registry, JFrog Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus RepositoryFive alternatives
Amazon Elastic Container Registry, Azure Container Registry, Cloudsmith, Google Artifact Registry, HarborTwo alternatives
CloudRepo, GitHub PackagesGPT-6 LunaGitHub PackagesDocker HubChangedGitHub Packages, GitLab Package Registryagainst: Cloudsmith, Docker Hub, JFrog ArtifactoryGitHub Packagesno first choiceagainst: Docker Hub, GitHub Packages, Google Container Registry
Two alternatives
AWS CodeArtifact, CloudsmithOne alternative
Amazon ECRThree alternatives
Amazon ECR, Azure Container Registry, Google Artifact RegistryTwo alternatives
GitLab Package Registry, Sonatype Nexus RepositoryFive alternatives
Azure Artifacts, Cloudsmith, CodeArtifact, GitHub Packages, JFrog ArtifactoryMuse Glimmer 30BCloudRepo, GitHub Packagesagainst: AWS CodeArtifact, JFrog ArtifactoryGitHub PackagesChangedagainst: Docker Hub, Harbor, JFrog Artifactory, QuayGitHub Container Registry, GHCRagainst: HarborSonatype Nexus Repositoryagainst: JFrog ArtifactoryCloudRepoagainst: AWS CodeArtifact, Docker Hub, JFrog Artifactoryagainst: Docker Hub, Maven Central, PyPI, npmjs.org
Two alternatives
Cloudsmith, Sonatype LifecycleThree alternatives
Artifact Registry, ECR, GitLab Package RegistryEight alternatives
AWS CodeArtifact, Amazon Elastic Container Registry, Azure Container Registry, Cloudsmith, Docker Hub, Google Artifact Registry, JFrog Artifactory, Microsoft Azure ArtifactsTwo alternatives
Artifact Keeper, GitHub PackagesTwo alternatives
GitHub Packages, Nexus RepositoryBold is the first choiceAlternatives are counted; the count opens them.What the answer argued against
The record
One row per call: the version string exactly as returned, whether the model searched, sources cited, and latency.
Eighty-four rows: every prompt, every model, every answer.
| Prompt | Model | Version string | Time (UTC) | Searched | Sources | Latency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Direct recommendation | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 12:05 | no | 0 | 5 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 11:14 | yes | 3 | 5 s |
| Direct recommendation | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 15:44 | no | 0 | 13 s |
| Direct recommendation | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 11:21 | yes | 10 | 3 s |
| Direct recommendation | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 16:59 | yes | 5 | 9 s |
| Direct recommendation | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 18:08 | yes | 5 | 5 s |
| Direct recommendation | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 13:40 | yes | 19 | 32 s |
| Direct recommendation | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 18:29 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Direct recommendation | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 11:08 | no | 0 | 27 s |
| Direct recommendation | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 11:27 | yes | 8 | 36 s |
| Direct recommendation | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 12:21 | yes | 24 | 54 s |
| Direct recommendation | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 12:46 | yes | 5 | 94 s |
| Direct recommendation | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 18:05 | yes | 3 | 11 s |
| Direct recommendation | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 19:36 | yes | 13 | 16 s |
| Paraphrase | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 11:18 | no | 0 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 12:03 | yes | 5 | 5 s |
| Paraphrase | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 11:33 | no | 0 | 13 s |
| Paraphrase | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 11:04 | yes | 10 | 3 s |
| Paraphrase | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 19:38 | yes | 5 | 11 s |
| Paraphrase | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 09:16 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Paraphrase | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 16:35 | yes | 16 | 26 s |
| Paraphrase | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 09:30 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Paraphrase | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 16:39 | yes | 5 | 18 s |
| Paraphrase | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 15:27 | yes | 25 | 53 s |
| Paraphrase | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 16:25 | yes | 10 | 37 s |
| Paraphrase | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 17:06 | no | 0 | 91 s |
| Paraphrase | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 16:41 | yes | 2 | 10 s |
| Paraphrase | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 13:10 | yes | 9 | 18 s |
| Comparative | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 16:32 | yes | 19 | 12 s |
| Comparative | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 08:53 | yes | 5 | 9 s |
| Comparative | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 14:19 | no | 0 | 19 s |
| Comparative | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 09:34 | yes | 10 | 7 s |
| Comparative | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 19:17 | yes | 5 | 16 s |
| Comparative | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 19:16 | yes | 15 | 10 s |
| Comparative | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 18:27 | yes | 15 | 37 s |
| Comparative | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 11:21 | yes | 5 | 2 s |
| Comparative | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 09:18 | yes | 5 | 22 s |
| Comparative | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 12:57 | yes | 19 | 61 s |
| Comparative | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 14:14 | yes | 9 | 25 s |
| Comparative | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 11:38 | yes | 9 | 43 s |
| Comparative | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 16:31 | yes | 7 | 18 s |
| Comparative | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 18:17 | yes | 15 | 26 s |
| Budget constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 12:32 | no | 0 | 5 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 16:56 | no | 0 | 3 s |
| Budget constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 12:41 | no | 0 | 13 s |
| Budget constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 17:55 | yes | 10 | 3 s |
| Budget constrained | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 14:55 | yes | 5 | 11 s |
| Budget constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 11:55 | yes | 5 | 4 s |
| Budget constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 14:05 | yes | 22 | 24 s |
| Budget constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 14:23 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Budget constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 14:08 | no | 0 | 31 s |
| Budget constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 12:05 | yes | 10 | 31 s |
| Budget constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 13:32 | yes | 10 | 41 s |
| Budget constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 10:48 | yes | 5 | 53 s |
| Budget constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 15:32 | yes | 3 | 8 s |
| Budget constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 15:51 | yes | 13 | 18 s |
| Scale constrained | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 17:15 | no | 0 | 6 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 12:47 | no | 0 | 8 s |
| Scale constrained | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 11:02 | no | 0 | 16 s |
| Scale constrained | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 18:33 | yes | 10 | 5 s |
| Scale constrained | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 18:16 | yes | 5 | 13 s |
| Scale constrained | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 12:49 | no | 0 | 7 s |
| Scale constrained | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 09:28 | yes | 23 | 24 s |
| Scale constrained | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 12:37 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Scale constrained | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 13:07 | no | 0 | 35 s |
| Scale constrained | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 16:33 | yes | 24 | 86 s |
| Scale constrained | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 19:41 | yes | 15 | 34 s |
| Scale constrained | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 12:56 | no | 0 | 78 s |
| Scale constrained | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 14:59 | yes | 5 | 17 s |
| Scale constrained | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 15:42 | yes | 13 | 27 s |
| Negative framing | Claude Haiku 4.5 | claude-haiku-4-5-20251001 | 2026-11-01 08:48 | yes | 18 | 11 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-5.4 mini | gpt-5.4-mini-2026-03-17 | 2026-11-01 09:02 | yes | 6 | 5 s |
| Negative framing | Gemini 3.5 Flash | gemini-3.6-flash (asked for gemini-3.5-flash; the API answered as this version) | 2026-11-01 14:01 | yes | 10 | 22 s |
| Negative framing | Perplexity Sonar | sonar | 2026-11-01 16:46 | yes | 10 | 5 s |
| Negative framing | Grok 4.20 | spacexai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning via xai | 2026-11-01 19:36 | yes | 15 | 14 s |
| Negative framing | Mistral Small | mistral/mistral-small via mistral | 2026-11-01 12:25 | yes | 5 | 5 s |
| Negative framing | DeepSeek V4 Flash | deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash via deepinfra | 2026-11-01 15:07 | yes | 24 | 34 s |
| Negative framing | Llama 4 Maverick | meta/llama-4-maverick via bedrock | 2026-11-01 15:52 | yes | 5 | 3 s |
| Negative framing | Qwen 3.7 Flash | alibaba/qwen3.7-flash via alibaba | 2026-11-01 16:16 | no | 0 | 33 s |
| Negative framing | Kimi K2 | moonshotai/kimi-k2 via novita | 2026-11-01 10:40 | yes | 10 | 44 s |
| Negative framing | GLM 4.7 FlashX | zai/glm-4.7-flashx via zai | 2026-11-01 17:16 | yes | 24 | 30 s |
| Negative framing | MiniMax M2.5 | minimax/minimax-m2.5 via minimax | 2026-11-01 11:42 | yes | 25 | 58 s |
| Negative framing | GPT-6 Luna | gpt-6-luna | 2026-11-01 16:31 | yes | 5 | 18 s |
| Negative framing | Muse Glimmer 30B | meta/muse-glimmer-30b via togetherai | 2026-11-01 14:49 | yes | 23 | 32 s |
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AWS Elastic Container Registry (ECR) read as Amazon Elastic Container Registry
AWS Elastic Container Registry, ECR read as Amazon Elastic Container Registry
Azure ACR read as Azure Container Registry
Azure Container Registry, ACR read as Azure Container Registry
GitHub Container Registry read as GitHub Packages
GitHub Container Registry (GHCR) read as GitHub Packages
GitHub Container Registry (GHCR) / GitHub Packages read as GitHub Packages
GitHub Packages / GitHub Container Registry (GHCR) read as GitHub Packages
GitLab read as GitLab Package Registry
GitLab Container & Package Registry read as GitLab Package Registry
GitLab Container Registry read as GitLab Package Registry
GitLab Container Registry (Self-Hosted) read as GitLab Package Registry
GitLab Package & Container Registry read as GitLab Package Registry
Google Cloud Artifact Registry read as Google Artifact Registry
JFrog read as JFrog Artifactory
Sonatype Nexus Community Edition read as Sonatype Nexus Repository
Sonatype Nexus OSS read as Sonatype Nexus Repository
Sonatype Nexus OSS (self-hosted) read as Sonatype Nexus Repository
Sonatype Nexus Repository Community Edition read as Sonatype Nexus Repository
Sonatype Nexus Repository OSS read as Sonatype Nexus Repository
Unresolved, counted raw
8gears
Archiva
Artifactory Community Edition
Artifactory OSS/Enterprise
Azure Artifact Registry
Bitbucket Package Repository
Docker Hub Free Tier
Docker Registry
Docker Registry/Container Registry
ECR Public
GitHub Container Registry, GHCR
JFrog Artifactory — Cloud Pro
JFrog Cloud
JFrog's Artifactory
Microsoft Azure Artifacts
Nexus Cloud
Nexus Repository Community Edition (OSS)
OpenArtifact
Railway's integrated registry
Replicated
Self-hosted Sonatype Nexus Repository (Community Edition)
Self‑hosted S3/Blob + a thin layer
Sonatype Nexus Cloud
Sonatype Nexus Pro Cloud
Vanilla Docker Registry
npmjs.com
npmjs.org
raw Docker Registry
Discontinued, still offered
No shut-down product was recommended here.