Every category where a model named Cloudsmith for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant
Artifact and container registries	Developer platform	8%	4 of 89	10%	21	accepted challenger
Internal developer portals	Developer platform	0%	33 of 52	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by Port at 53%
Software composition analysis	Developer platform	0%	46 of 50	100%	1	under 10 labels · led by Trivy at 31%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Cloudsmith yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

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

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0	1	0	1
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0	0	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	1	1	0	0	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	0	0	1
Grok 4.1 Fast	1	0	0	0	1
Mistral Small	1	1	0	0	2
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	2	1	1	4
Llama 4 Maverick	1	0	0	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	0	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0	0	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	2	1	0	3
MiniMax M2.5	0	1	1	1	3
GPT-6 Luna	1	0	0	0	1
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	1	2	1	4

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct24 labels6

Paraphrase1 labelNone

Comparative12 labelsNone

Budget-constrained13 labelsNone

Scale-constrained12 labels1

Negative2 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative64 labels in all, every segment counted; 7 of the 7 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Cloudsmith - a natural fit for engineering teams at scaling startups and mid-size companies that want enterprise-grade artifact management” Llama 4 Maverick · Artifact registries · direct prompt · first choice

“Cloudsmith stands out as a particularly strong choice for engineering teams at scaling startups and mid-size companies” Mistral Small · Artifact registries · direct prompt · first choice

“Best Overall for SaaS & Multi-Language Stacks: Cloudsmith ... is the standout choice” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Artifact registries · direct prompt · first choice

“Cloudsmith stands out as the strongest fit for most mid-market B2B companies” Grok 4.1 Fast · Artifact registries · direct prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Skip cloud-hosted options (like JFrog Cloud or Cloudsmith)” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Artifact registries · budget prompt · hard negative

“\u201cIf Trivy becomes unsupported or compromised, Cloudsmith\u2019s entire SCA capability could suffer, leaving users vulnerable.\u201d” Muse Glimmer 30B · SCA · negative prompt · soft negative

“Cons: Can get expensive with high usage” MiniMax M2.5 · Artifact registries · budget prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Cloudsmith, over the 64 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Cloudsmith was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

JFrog Artifactory49 of 6422Compare →

GitHub Packages35 of 645Compare →

Sonatype Nexus Repository33 of 6414Compare →

Google Artifact Registry26 of 641Not among the top eight

AWS CodeArtifact23 of 640Not among the top eight

Harbor22 of 642Not among the top eight

Azure Artifacts17 of 640Not among the top eight

Azure Container Registry11 of 640Compare →

Docker Hub10 of 640Not among the top eight

Sonatype Lifecycle9 of 642Compare →

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Cloudsmith. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 62 of the 64 answers that named Cloudsmith and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

jfrog.com40

sonatype.com39

harness.io34

thectoclub.com33

cloudrepo.io31

itechguides.com25

safeguard.sh24

cloudsmith.comYour site23

devopsschool.com19

ciopages.com17

262 of the 285 domain citations in answers naming Cloudsmith came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

thectoclub.com/tools/best-artifact-repository-tools33

sonatype.com/compare/best-artifact-repository-solutions31

harness.io/blog/best-artifact-repository-tools27

sonatype.com/products/sonatype-nexus-repository23

cloudrepo.io/articles/best-artifactory-alternatives22

safeguard.sh/resources/blog/choosing-a-private-package-registry-202518

ciopages.com/buyer-guides/container-registry-artifact-management17

jfrog.com/blog/what-is-artifactory-jfrog17

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

cloudsmith.com is not in Google's top ten for any of the category's searches. In the answers, Cloudsmith takes 8% of first choices and JFrog Artifactory takes 14%.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “artifact repository”

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not in the top ten

Position for “best artifact repository”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 1,300 a month (“cloudsmith”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 25 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 3,190 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 1,291 · 38 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 2,520
Paid Google search: 1 searches its ads show for, about 8 clicks and $982 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

120+ ads · 102 text, 16 image, 2 video · 34 shown in the last 30 days

First shown April 2025, as Cloudsmith Ltd, verified. Ads started 2025-11 to 2026-10: 50 in the year, 70 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 4 of 89 in artifact registries

Segment leader

14%

JFrog Artifactory

First choices: 7 across its categories
Named in: 64 answers
Its own site cited: in 62 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

What it publishes

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Addresses on cloudsmith.com

9,999

subdomains included

Content

597

counted in the table below

Documentation

522

Product · Integration

66 · 39

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	372	11	2026-10-01	IaC, CI/CD
Webinar or virtual event	58	0	2025-06-04
Conference or event	55	0	2023-08-21
News or press	39	undated
Glossary or explainer	27	0	2025-12-08	SIEM
Case study	18	undated
Report or ebook	12	4	2026-09-28
Comparison	10	0	2026-02-16
Template or tool	6	0	2026-03-19

Most recent

2026-10-01Everything cloudsmith shipped in q3 2026 blog
2026-09-28Getting started report or ebook
2026-09-28Managing permissions report or ebook
2026-09-28Network allowlist report or ebook
2026-09-28Setting up your cloudsmith account and workspace report or ebook
2026-09-24How continuous risk detection replaces point in time scans with real time monitoring blog

Events in person

Last twelve months

June 25, 2026Meet us in NYC for PlatformCon 2026Convene 30 Hudson Yards | NYC, New York City · hosted
June 23, 2026AI agents & platform engineering: Efficiency boost or new source of troubleConvene Sancroft, St. Paul's, London, London · spoke
October 8, 2025Discuss. Discover. Network.Merchant's Arch, Temple Bar · sponsored
October 7, 2025 to October 9, 2025Let's connect at SREcon EuropeThe Convention Centre, Dublin. Booth 6., Dublin · sponsored
October 7, 2025Scaling Back with a PintMerchant's Arch, Temple Bar · sponsored

As the event pages on cloudsmith.com state them, read October 5, 2026.

How it is countedHide how it is counted

Every page cloudsmith.com 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 October 5, 2026.

Names read as Cloudsmith

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Cloudsmith; a claim can dispute any of them.

CloudSmith 1

Follow Cloudsmith

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Cloudsmith is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Cloud-native artifact management platform
cloudsmith.com
For: enterprise
cloudsmith.com
Price stated: Core $0/month; Pro $149/month; Ultra Custom; Enterprise Custom cloudsmith.com/pricing
Starting price: 0 cloudsmith.com/pricing
Free plan or trial: Start a free trial cloudsmith.com
Certifications: ISO 27001:2022SOC 2 - Type 1SOC 2 - Type 2
Hosting: 600 points of presence worldwide
Customers named: PagerDutyThriventFont AwesomeCartaThe New England Center for ChildrenConstructConnectLeading consumer and industrial electronics organizationDataHub
Not stated on the pages read: Integrations

What Cloudsmith's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: cloudsmith.com, cloudsmith.com/pricing, trust.cloudsmith.com, cloudsmith.com/product/formats, cloudsmith.com/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Cloudsmith's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Cloudsmith, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Cloudsmith by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Cloudsmith is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Cloudsmith, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.