# Cloudsmith alternatives: what AI models name instead, October 2026

IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. 210 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where Cloudsmith holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://it-ai-index.com/vendors/cloudsmith/alternatives/

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- JFrog Artifactory: 40
- GitHub Packages: 29
- Google Artifact Registry: 15
- Azure Container Registry: 14
- Sonatype Nexus Repository: 13
- Amazon Elastic Container Registry: 9

## Artifact and container registries

**Small business**: 72 of 84 answers did not name Cloudsmith (Cloudsmith is #7 of 12 at 3%).

- GitHub Packages: first choice in 26 of those 72
- GitLab Package Registry: first choice in 5 of those 72
- Docker Hub: first choice in 4 of those 72
- JFrog Artifactory: first choice in 4 of those 72
- Sonatype Nexus Repository OSS: first choice in 4 of those 72
- DigitalOcean Container Registry: first choice in 3 of those 72
- Harbor: first choice in 3 of those 72
- Sonatype Nexus Repository: first choice in 2 of those 72

**Mid-market**: 70 of 84 answers did not name Cloudsmith (Cloudsmith is #4 of 16 at 8%).

- JFrog Artifactory: first choice in 8 of those 70
- Amazon Elastic Container Registry: first choice in 7 of those 70
- Azure Container Registry: first choice in 7 of those 70
- Google Artifact Registry: first choice in 7 of those 70
- Amazon ECR: first choice in 5 of those 70
- AWS ECR: first choice in 4 of those 70
- Sonatype Nexus Repository OSS: first choice in 4 of those 70
- GitHub Packages: first choice in 3 of those 70

**Enterprise**: 68 of 84 answers did not name Cloudsmith (Cloudsmith is #9 of 13 at 0%).

- JFrog Artifactory: first choice in 28 of those 68
- Sonatype Nexus Repository: first choice in 11 of those 68
- Google Artifact Registry: first choice in 8 of those 68
- Azure Container Registry: first choice in 7 of those 68
- AWS ECR: first choice in 3 of those 68
- Amazon Elastic Container Registry: first choice in 2 of those 68
- Harbor: first choice in 2 of those 68
- JFrog Artifactory / JFrog Container Registry: first choice in 2 of those 68

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