JFrog Artifactory vs. Sonatype Nexus Repository Community Edition

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
JFrog Artifactory
Score 8.3 out of 10
N/A
JFrog Artifactory is a software repository management solution for enterprises available on-premise or from the cloud, presented as a single solution for housing and managing all the artifacts, binaries, packages, files, containers, and components for use throughout the software supply chain. JFrog Artifactory serves as a central hub for DevOps, integrating with tools and processes to improve automation, increase integrity, and incorporate best practices along the way.
$150
per month unlimited users
Sonatype Nexus Repository Community Edition
Score 9.1 out of 10
N/A
Sonatype Nexus Repository Community Edition is an open source version of Nexus Repository Pro found in the company's Nexus Platform, used to accelerate DevOps pipelines and enterprise artifact management.N/A
Pricing
JFrog ArtifactorySonatype Nexus Repository Community Edition
Editions & Modules
Pro
$150
per month unlimited users
Enterprise X
$950
per month unlimited users
Pro X
$27,000
per year
Enterprise X
$48,000
per year
Enterprise +
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Enterprise +
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per year
Sonatype Nexus Repository Community Edition
Free
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Pricing Offerings
JFrog ArtifactorySonatype Nexus Repository Community Edition
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
8.2
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9.0
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Usability
7.3
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-
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Support Rating
8.9
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User Testimonials
JFrog ArtifactorySonatype Nexus Repository Community Edition
Likelihood to Recommend
It works at scale and a large number of accessible pipelines for searching, repository updates and indexing will become easier. JFrog provides end-to-end solutions for all DevOps needs. With this, Jfrog Artifactory specifically implements the management of highly available repositories, with a smooth interface and integration with all the main CI tools on the market.
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Best suited for secure artifact storage and wide distributions, along with compliance and governance support, easy integration with different organization ecosystems. Less suited for projects with minimal dependencies and offline environments with no connectivity to external repositories.
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Pros
  • Stores and Manages build artifacts and packages.
  • Works as container registry as well.
  • Easily manages local and remote repositories along with live replication.
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  • Secure artifact storage and customization
  • Compliance components in lifecycle
  • Integration in development ecosystems
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Cons
  • CI/CD integration. We understood they do have a pipeline, so our organization already started with Jenkins, and my understanding is that not many orgs are using the JFrog pipeline.
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  • Expanded repository format support
  • Detailed dependencies insights
  • Integrated Vulnerability management
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Usability
The main problem that seems intractable is getting the checksum of the artifact. Managing container artifacts is a game changer for us during project execution, as the container artifact type exposes all base image and Docker file steps. This makes debugging or analysis easier. Jfrog Artifactory provides promotion feature and can automated from one environment repo to another environment repo before the deployment occurs.
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Support Rating
Support tickets take days to respond. The most basic of questions that should be knocked out in a few hours don't get answers for days. Tickets are also closed without resolution.
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JFrog pipelines are being used in the same ecosystem as an integrated environment, to support CI-CD devops journey. This eventually helps the existing team to use both the features of the same product in a seamless way.Similar Xray, can be used as a secure measure to protect your containers and can be used as a Static Code analysis tool which can also be integrated in a Devops CI pipeline as a Left shift security strategy.
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Sonatype Nexus Repository OSS has some useful features- - Distributed repository management - Insights in component usage - Repository Health check - Smart proxying option
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Return on Investment
  • We now have a solid, reliable binary repository that can survive a regional outage in AWS when deployed properly
  • It has allowed us to focus on building mature CICD pipelines without having to worry about an unreliable binary repository.
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  • Positive - security standards setup in organization
  • Positive - detailed data insights
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