# Artifact and container registries for enterprise buyers: what AI models recommend, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Asked as "artifact repository" and as "container registry", six framings each, to fourteen models with search on, on behalf of an enterprise B2B company. Added to the November 2026 Edition. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/developer/artifact-and-container-registries/enterprise

**Standing:** JFrog Artifactory leads with 51% of first choices; verdict clear leader. 59 first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts.

## First-choice share

| Rank | Product | Share | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | [JFrog Artifactory](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/jfrog-artifactory/index.md) | 51% | 12% | 75 |
| 2 | [Sonatype Nexus Repository](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/sonatype-nexus-repository/index.md) | 22% | 2% | 47 |
| 3 | [Azure Container Registry](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/azure-container-registry/index.md) | 7% | 3% | 38 |
| 5 | [Google Artifact Registry](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/google-artifact-registry/index.md) | 3% | 12% | 41 |
| 6 | [Amazon Elastic Container Registry](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/amazon-elastic-container-registry/index.md) | 3% | 0% | 10 |
| 7 | [Harbor](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/harbor/index.md) | 2% | 13% | 39 |
| 8 | [Amazon ECR](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/amazon-ecr/index.md) | 2% | 0% | 14 |
| 9 | [AWS ECR](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/aws-ecr/index.md) | 2% | 17% | 12 |
| 11 | [Cloudsmith](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/cloudsmith/index.md) | 0% | 6% | 18 |
| 12 | [Red Hat Quay](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/red-hat-quay/index.md) | 0% | 8% | 13 |
| 13 | [Azure Artifacts](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/azure-artifacts/index.md) | 0% | 16% | 19 |
| 14 | [Sonatype Lifecycle](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/sonatype-lifecycle/index.md) | 0% | 21% | 14 |

Rank is by share of first choices among all 68 products named; products with the same share are tied, and the order among them carries no meaning. The table lists those with at least 10 labels.

## Each model's first choice on the direct prompt

- Claude Haiku 4.5: Artifactory; alternatives AWS CodeArtifact, Azure Artifacts, Nexus Repository
- GPT-5.4 mini: JFrog Artifactory; alternatives Sonatype Nexus Repository
- Gemini 3.5 Flash: JFrog Artifactory; alternatives Cloudsmith, Sonatype Nexus Repository
- Perplexity Sonar: JFrog Artifactory; alternatives Azure Artifacts, Cloudsmith, Sonatype Nexus Repository
- Grok 4.20: JFrog Artifactory; alternatives Sonatype Nexus Repository
- Mistral Small: JFrog Artifactory; alternatives Cloudsmith, Harbor, Sonatype Nexus Repository
- DeepSeek V4 Flash: JFrog Artifactory; alternatives Cloudsmith, Sonatype Nexus Repository
- Llama 4 Maverick: no first choice
- Qwen 3.7 Flash: JFrog Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus Repository; alternatives Cloudsmith, GitHub Packages, GitLab Package Registry, Harbor
- Kimi K2: Sonatype Nexus Repository; alternatives JFrog Artifactory
- GLM 4.7 FlashX: Sonatype Nexus Repository; alternatives Azure Artifacts, Cloudsmith, GitHub Packages, JFrog Artifactory
- MiniMax M2.5: JFrog Artifactory; alternatives AWS CodeArtifact, Azure Artifacts, GitHub Packages, Google Artifact Registry
- GPT-6 Luna: JFrog Artifactory; alternatives AWS CodeArtifact, Sonatype Nexus Repository
- Muse Glimmer 30B: JFrog Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus Repository; alternatives AWS CodeArtifact, Azure Artifacts, Cloudsmith, Google Artifact Registry

## Sources the answers cite

72 of 84 answers came back with a source list, from 14 of 14 models. Sites named in the most answers:

- github.com: 35 answers, 62 citations
- sonatype.com: 34 answers, 79 citations
- jfrog.com: 30 answers, 62 citations
- gane.ai/index: 18 answers, 18 citations
- g2.com: 17 answers, 17 citations
- ciopages.com: 16 answers, 16 citations
- cloudrepo.io: 15 answers, 35 citations
- harness.io: 14 answers, 25 citations

Pages named in the most answers:

- https://jfrog.com/artifactory (19 answers)
- https://sonatype.com/products/sonatype-nexus-repository (17 answers)
- https://ciopages.com/buyer-guides/container-registry-artifact-management (16 answers)
- https://gane.ai/index/it/developer/artifact-and-container-registries/enterprise (16 answers)
- https://github.com/ishandutta2007/Awesome-Artifact-Repository-Manager/blob/main/README.md (16 answers)
- https://sonatype.com/resources/guides/sonatype-vs-jfrog (15 answers)
- https://jfrog.com/blog/what-is-artifactory-jfrog (13 answers)
- https://parse.gl/topics/cross-platform-artifact-and-container-registry (13 answers)
- https://github.com/abahmed/awesome-kubernetes-1/blob/master/v2-docs/registries.md (12 answers)
- https://dev.to/wenping/how-to-choose-an-artifact-repository-nexus-artifactory-and-self-hosted-angusrepo-by-team-size-5f4g (11 answers)

## Warned against

- Docker Hub: 20 of 24 labels negative. "the average "official" Docker Hub image contained 328 known vulnerabilities, with 12% of those rated critical or high severity." (Claude Haiku 4.5, negative prompt)
- GitHub Packages: 14 of 34 labels negative. "GitHub Packages has also been flagged as a registry to avoid due to the risk of using public community images directly." (Llama 4 Maverick, negative prompt)
- JFrog Artifactory: 9 of 75 labels negative. "Avoid JFrog Artifactory for your stated requirement" (DeepSeek V4 Flash, budget prompt)
- AWS CodeArtifact: 6 of 22 labels negative. "Options to Avoid for This Use Case - GitHub Packages, Azure Artifacts, or AWS CodeArtifact" (Grok 4.20, budget prompt)

## Movement since October 2026

Floor: 11 points of share, measured on the calibration repeat.
Same leader: JFrog Artifactory at 51%.

- JFrog Artifactory: 46% to 51%, +5. Inside the floor by 6 points · rank 1 of 68, unchanged.
- Sonatype Nexus Repository: 21% to 22%, +1. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 2 of 68, unchanged.
- Google Artifact Registry: 4% to 3%, −1. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 4 → 5 of 68.
- Amazon Elastic Container Registry: 4% to 3%, −1. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 5 → 6 of 68.
- Harbor: 1% to 2%, +1. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 6 → 7 of 68.
- Amazon ECR: 1% to 2%, +1. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 9 → 8 of 68.
- AWS ECR: 1% to 2%, +1. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 7 → 9 of 68.
- Azure Artifacts: 1% to 0%, −1. Inside the floor by 10 points · rank 8 → 13 of 68.
- Azure Container Registry: 7% to 7%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 3 of 68, unchanged.
- Cloudsmith: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 18 → 11 of 68.
- Red Hat Quay: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 20 → 12 of 68.
- Sonatype Lifecycle: 0% to 0%, ±0. Inside the floor by 11 points · rank 21 → 14 of 68.

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.