Artifact and container registries · RankedCloudsmith
Cloudsmith is a fully managed, cloud-native artifact repository service that hosts software packages and container images as a SaaS, without infrastructure to run · cloudsmith.com ↗
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
GitHub Packages is first at 50%.
Sonatype Nexus Repository is first at 28%. 2 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
JFrog Artifactory is first at 51%.
Why models recommend it
“For most mid-market B2B companies, Cloudsmith is the best default”Perplexity Sonar · Direct question · first choice
“Cloudsmith is my default pick for a mid-market B2B company”GPT-6 Luna · Direct question · first choice
“Self-hosted control, lighter footprint, strong proxy & caching, growing team | Sonatype Nexus (Pro) or Cloudsmith (Enterprise)”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Scale-constrained question · alternative
“Cloudsmith | Cloud-native teams wanting zero-maintenance SaaS | Smaller ecosystem; newer to enterprise market”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Scale-constrained question · alternative
What gives them pause
“Managed SaaS with a free tier, but paid plans begin around $149/month.”Perplexity Sonar · Budget-constrained question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Cloudsmith, over the 72 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 64 | 23 | Compare → | |
| 57 | 21 | Compare → | |
| 47 | 14 | Compare → | |
| 36 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 35 | 1 | View → | |
| 35 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 32 | 1 | View → | |
| 26 | 0 | Compare → | |
| 23 | 6 | View → | |
| 21 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Cloudsmith →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Cloudsmith's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- enterprise
- Price stated
- Core $0/month; Pro $149/month; Ultra Custom; Enterprise Custom
- Starting price
- 0
- Free plan or trial
- Start a free trial
- Certifications
- ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II
- Hosting
- 600 points of presence worldwide
- Customers named
- PagerDuty, Thrivent, Font Awesome, Carta, The New England Center for Children, ConstructConnect, DataHub
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
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. These counts come from 65 of the 72 answers that named Cloudsmith and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
197 of the 233 domain citations in answers naming Cloudsmith came from a third party's page. Nineteen were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-11 to 2026-10 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 372 | 11 | 2026-10-01 | IaC, CI/CD | |
| Webinar or virtual event | 58 | 0 | 2025-06-04 | ||
| Conference or event | 55 | 0 | 2023-08-21 | ||
| News or press | 39 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 27 | 0 | 2025-12-08 | SIEM | |
| Case study | 18 | undated | |||
| Report or ebook | 12 | 4 | 2026-09-28 | ||
| Comparison | 10 | 0 | 2026-02-16 | ||
| Template or tool | 6 | 0 | 2026-03-19 |
Most recent
- 2026-10-01Everything cloudsmith shipped in q3 2026 blog
- 2026-09-28Getting started report or ebook
- 2026-09-28Managing permissions report or ebook
- 2026-09-28Network allowlist report or ebook
- 2026-09-28Setting up your cloudsmith account and workspace report or ebook
- 2026-09-24How continuous risk detection replaces point in time scans with real time monitoring blog
Events in person
- June 25, 2026Meet us in NYC for PlatformCon 2026Convene 30 Hudson Yards | NYC, New York City · hosted
- June 23, 2026AI agents & platform engineering: Efficiency boost or new source of troubleConvene Sancroft, St. Paul's, London, London · spoke
- October 8, 2025Discuss. Discover. Network.Merchant's Arch, Temple Bar · sponsored
- October 7, 2025 to October 9, 2025Let's connect at SREcon EuropeThe Convention Centre, Dublin. Booth 6., Dublin · sponsored
- October 7, 2025Scaling Back with a PintMerchant's Arch, Temple Bar · sponsored
As the event pages on cloudsmith.com state them, read October 5, 2026.
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page cloudsmith.com exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read October 5, 2026.