2 categories · RankedHarbor
Harbor is an open-source container registry hosted by the CNCF · goharbor.io ↗
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%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
JFrog Artifactory is first at 51%.
Why models recommend it
“or Harbor if you need a self-hosted, open-source solution with enterprise-grade security features”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Paraphrase question · first choice
“or Harbor (if you want open-source flexibility and can manage your own infrastructure)”MiniMax M2.5 · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Sonatype Nexus Repository Community Edition or Harbor are the best choices”Mistral Small · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Harbor is the strongest community-supported neutral choice.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · first choice
What gives them pause
“you should still: Ensure they are properly configured and not publicly exposed unless necessary.”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
“Cons: High operational overhead. You must patch, scale, and maintain the database and cache.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Paraphrase question · warning
“This suggests caution when using Harbor without proper security hardening.”Claude Haiku 4.5 · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Harbor, over the 122 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 93 | 31 | Compare → | |
| 89 | 25 | Compare → | |
| 80 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 79 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 69 | 0 | View → | |
| 56 | 12 | Compare → | |
| 46 | 5 | View → | |
| 35 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 34 | 5 | Compare → | |
| 27 | 3 | View → |
What the models named instead of Harbor →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Harbor's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- organizations
- Customers named
- 360 Total Security, axatp, beyondsoft, boer, CERN, china-mobile, cloudstar, datayes
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 111 of the 122 answers that named Harbor and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
282 of the 314 domain citations in answers naming Harbor came from a third party's page. Thirty-two 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 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 3 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 6 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 5 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Blog | 36 | undated | |||
| Conference or event | 1 | undated |
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page goharbor.io 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 September 29, 2026.