# Cloudsmith alternatives: what AI models name instead, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. 201 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where Cloudsmith holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/cloudsmith/alternatives

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- JFrog Artifactory: 41
- Sonatype Nexus Repository: 31
- GitHub Packages: 30
- Azure Container Registry: 16
- Google Artifact Registry: 12
- Amazon ECR: 9

## Artifact and container registries

**Small business**: 64 of 84 answers did not name Cloudsmith (Cloudsmith is #4 of 13 at 5%).

- GitHub Packages: first choice in 30 of those 64
- GitLab Package Registry: first choice in 6 of those 64
- Sonatype Nexus Repository: first choice in 6 of those 64
- Azure Container Registry: first choice in 5 of those 64
- Amazon ECR: first choice in 4 of those 64
- Google Artifact Registry: first choice in 4 of those 64
- AWS CodeArtifact: first choice in 2 of those 64
- AWS ECR: first choice in 2 of those 64

**Mid-market**: 64 of 84 answers did not name Cloudsmith (Cloudsmith is #8 of 15 at 3%).

- Sonatype Nexus Repository: first choice in 13 of those 64
- Azure Container Registry: first choice in 6 of those 64
- Amazon ECR: first choice in 5 of those 64
- Google Artifact Registry: first choice in 5 of those 64
- JFrog Artifactory: first choice in 5 of those 64
- AWS ECR: first choice in 3 of those 64
- Harbor: first choice in 3 of those 64
- Amazon Elastic Container Registry: first choice in 2 of those 64

**Enterprise**: 73 of 84 answers did not name Cloudsmith (Cloudsmith is #9 of 16 at 0%).

- JFrog Artifactory: first choice in 36 of those 73
- Sonatype Nexus Repository: first choice in 12 of those 73
- Azure Container Registry: first choice in 5 of those 73
- Harbor: first choice in 5 of those 73
- CloudRepo: first choice in 3 of those 73
- Google Artifact Registry: first choice in 3 of those 73
- Red Hat Quay: first choice in 3 of those 73
- AWS ECR: first choice in 2 of those 73

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