Artifact and container registries · RankedSonatype Nexus Repository
Sonatype Nexus Repository is an artifact and container registry from Sonatype · sonatype.com ↗
Strongest at mid-market, contested with JFrog Artifactory. Ranked 2 of 78 for small business buyers.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
GitHub Packages is first at 50%.
Ranked first, contested: JFrog Artifactory has 22%. 4 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
JFrog Artifactory is first at 51%.
Why models recommend it
“The Best All-Around Free Solution: Sonatype Nexus Repository OSS ... widely considered the industry standard for cost-conscious companies.”Qwen 3.7 Flash · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Sonatype Nexus Repository Community Edition or Harbor are the best choices due to their comprehensive feature sets and zero cost”Mistral Small · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“The best artifact repository for a company with a limited budget is Sonatype Nexus Community Edition, which is free and self-hosted.”Llama 4 Maverick · Budget-constrained question · first choice
“Start with Sonatype Nexus Repository OSS - it's free, mature, and supports virtually all package formats you'll need.”MiniMax M2.5 · Budget-constrained question · first choice
What gives them pause
“Avoid Nexus OSS for containers unless you have time to tune it.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
“though it may require more setup and maintenance than JFrog or cloud-native options”Mistral Small · Paraphrase question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Sonatype Nexus Repository, over the 117 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 103 | 31 | Compare → | |
| 81 | 22 | Compare → | |
| 56 | 2 | Compare → | |
| 53 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 47 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 46 | 1 | View → | |
| 43 | 5 | View → | |
| 37 | 1 | Compare → | |
| 36 | 1 | View → | |
| 32 | 0 | View → |
What the models named instead of Sonatype Nexus Repository →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Sonatype Nexus Repository's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- development teams
- Price stated
- transparent pricing
- Free plan or trial
- Try It Free
- Integrations
- 20
- Hosting
- Cloud, self-hosted, air-gapped
- Customers named
- BNP Paribas Personal Finance
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 100 of the 117 answers that named Sonatype Nexus Repository and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
245 of the 323 domain citations in answers naming Sonatype Nexus Repository came from a third party's page. Twenty-five 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 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Grok 4.20 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Mistral Small | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 2 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 4 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |