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Index › IT › Products › Nexus · November 2026 Edition

3 categories · Named, not ranked

Nexus

–Too few to rank

11/14Models named it

0First choices

10Warnings

November 2026 Edition · all company sizes counted.

Ranked inArtifact and container registries #54 mid-market Data center infrastructure management #33 Data center networking #120

What AI models recommend

Named, too few times to rank.

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Nexus has 6.

Why models recommend it

“Offers low entry-level pricing for small device counts with built-in 3D rack layout”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Budget-constrained question · alternative

What gives them pause

“Validate exactly which Nexus, ACI, management, and licensing components you are buying; Cisco's broad portfolio can be confusing”Perplexity Sonar · Negative question · warning

“Self-hosted or cloud registries with poor config (e.g., ... Nexus, Artifactory, Harbor, ACR, GCR, ECR)”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · warning

Also on the shortlist

The products named in the same answers as Nexus, over the 21 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.

Product	Named together	Picked instead
GitHub Packages	12	3	View →
Artifactory	10	0	View →
Docker Hub	9	0	View →
Harbor	8	2	View →
Google Artifact Registry	8	1	View →
JFrog Artifactory	7	2	View →
Azure Artifacts	7	0	View →
Azure Container Registry	6	2	View →
AWS CodeArtifact	6	0	View →
ECR	6	0	View →

A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.

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

The sites and pages the answers that named Nexus came back with. A fact about retrieval, not a cause of the answer.

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 17 of the 21 answers that named Nexus and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

github.com7

paloaltonetworks.com4

reddit.com4

cloudrepo.io3

docs.cloud.google.com3

docs.docker.com3

g2.com3

harness.io3

learn.microsoft.com3

railway.com3

No domain is on file for Nexus, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

github.com/ishandutta2007/Awesome-Artifact-Repository-Manager3

github.com/ishandutta2007/Awesome-Artifact-Repository-Manager/blob/main/README.md3

paloaltonetworks.com/content/dam/pan/en_US/assets/pdf/ebooks/container-security-definitive3

railway.com/guides/best-container-registries-20263

servicenetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/magic_quadrant_for_data_cent_networking_27843

bluelight.co/blog/how-to-choose-a-container-registry2

cloudrepo.io/articles/best-nexus-alternatives2

csoonline.com/article/575157/thousands-of-misconfigured-container-and-artifact-registries-2

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

By model

How each model answered on Nexus across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

Model	Alternative	Mention	Warning	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	0	1
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	0	0	1
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	1	1
Grok 4.20	0	0	1	1
Mistral Small	0	1	0	1
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	0	0	0