Every category where a model named JFrog Artifactory 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	Since September 2026
Artifact and container registries	Developer platform	14%	1 of 89	23%	48	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for JFrog Artifactory 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 JFrog Artifactory 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	2	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	1	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	2	0	1	2	5
Perplexity Sonar	1	1	1	0	3
Grok 4.20	1	2	1	2	6
Mistral Small	2	1	0	0	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	1	1	1	4
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	1	0	1
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	0	1	1	3
Kimi K2	1	1	0	3	5
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	2	1	1	4
MiniMax M2.5	1	1	0	0	2
GPT-6 Luna	0	2	0	1	3
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	3	1	0	5

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

Direct36 labels16

Paraphrase17 labels5

Comparative37 labels14not counted in share

Budget-constrained20 labels6

Scale-constrained25 labels13

Negative19 labels1not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative154 labels in all, every segment counted; 40 of the 55 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.

“JFrog Artifactory is positioned as a universal repository manager that supports a wide range of artifact types... Both are viable for a 500-person company.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Artifact registries · scale prompt · first choice

“Artifact registries like JFrog Artifactory and Google Artifact Registry are more comprehensive, supporting a broader range of package formats” Mistral Small · Artifact registries · comparative prompt · first choice

“JFrog is widely considered the top choice for mid-market companies today... It is the safest bet for a growing mid-market engineering team.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Artifact registries · direct prompt · first choice

“JFrog Artifactory (The Industry Standard) ... Best if: You need a highly robust, universal, and battle-tested "gold standard" platform” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Artifact registries · scale 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.

“Note: Avoid JFrog Artifactory if you have a tight budget.” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Artifact registries · budget prompt · hard negative

“generally not recommended for mid-market B2B companies” Gemini 3.5 Flash · Artifact registries · direct prompt · hard negative

“Avoid for limited budgets - costs escalate quickly” Kimi K2 · Artifact registries · budget prompt · hard negative

“Stale or Self-Hosted "Shadow" Registries (Caution) ... using tools like JFrog Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Artifact registries · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as JFrog Artifactory, over the 154 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and JFrog Artifactory was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Google Artifact Registry83 of 15412Not among the top eight

GitHub Packages80 of 15422Compare →

Harbor77 of 1543Not among the top eight

Sonatype Nexus Repository70 of 15413Compare →

Azure Container Registry62 of 15410Compare →

Docker Hub52 of 1541Not among the top eight

Cloudsmith49 of 1545Compare →

AWS CodeArtifact46 of 1540Not among the top eight

Azure Artifacts29 of 1540Not among the top eight

Sonatype Lifecycle28 of 1540Compare →

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 JFrog Artifactory. 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 136 of the 154 answers that named JFrog Artifactory and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

jfrog.comYour site64

harness.io61

sonatype.com57

cloudrepo.io48

thectoclub.com42

ciopages.com37

itechguides.com36

safeguard.sh32

g2.com31

blog.railway.com30

374 of the 438 domain citations in answers naming JFrog Artifactory came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

harness.io/blog/best-artifact-repository-tools42

sonatype.com/compare/best-artifact-repository-solutions42

thectoclub.com/tools/best-artifact-repository-tools42

ciopages.com/buyer-guides/container-registry-artifact-management37

sonatype.com/products/sonatype-nexus-repository37

blog.railway.com/p/best-container-registries-202630

jfrog.com/pricing26

cloudrepo.io/articles/best-artifactory-alternatives25

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where JFrog Artifactory stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Position for “artifact repository”

Position for “best artifact repository”

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not in the top ten

Searches for its name, Google: 2,900 a month (“jfrog artifactory”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 172 a month
Organic visits to its site: about 38,697 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 5,782 · 542 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 13,298
Paid Google search: 3 searches its ads show for, about 5 clicks and $37 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

120+ ads · 106 text, 12 image, 2 video · 120 shown in the last 30 days

First shown August 2023, as JFrog, verified. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 29 in the year, 91 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

14%

rank 1 of 89 in artifact registries

First choices

across its categories

Named in: 154 answers
Its own site cited: in 136 of the answers that named it

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read September 28, 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 jfrog.com

10,009

subdomains included

Content

1,635

counted in the table below

Documentation

6,096

Product · Integration

14 · 125

Kind	Pages	Last 90 days	Latest	Categories named
Blog	959	0	2021-04-07	SIEM, SAST
Webinar or virtual event	210	0	2026-03-11	IaC, SAST
Glossary or explainer	139	1	2026-07-28	IaC, SAST
News or press	106	undated
Report or ebook	91	undated
Comparison	59	undated
Conference or event	43	1	2026-07-28
Case study	18	undated
Template or tool	9	0	2021-02-09
Podcast or video	1	0	2022-05-05

Most recent

2026-07-28What is artifactory jfrog glossary or explainer
2026-07-28Jfrog to present at upcoming investor conferences 3 conference or event
2026-03-11Webinar recap forrester tool consolidation future of appsec webinar or virtual event
2022-05-058 of the best machine learning podcasts to listen to in 2022 podcast or video
2021-04-07Npm flies with jfrog cli blog
2021-02-09Cloud native ci cd the ultimate checklist template or tool

Events in person

Last twelve months

August 12, 2026Canaccord Genuity Annual Growth ConferenceBoston, United States · spoke
August 10, 2026KeyBanc Technology Leadership ForumDeer Valley, United States · spoke

As the event pages on jfrog.com state them, read September 28, 2026.

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Every page jfrog.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 September 29, 2026.

Names read as JFrog Artifactory

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

JFrog 1

Follow JFrog Artifactory

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

JFrog Artifactory is its own company.

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In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Universal AI Asset & Artifact Management
jfrog.com
For: small teams
jfrog.com/pricing
Price stated: $150 / Month $50 / Month Save $100/mo jfrog.com/pricing
Starting price: $50 / Month jfrog.com/pricing
Free plan or trial: Free Trial jfrog.com
Integrations claimed: 100 jfrog.com
Certifications: Gartner® Magic QuadrantTM Software Supply Chain Security
Hosting: 30 locations across 3 cloud providers
Customers named: AdyenLedgerSASOracleCredit KarmaFFF EnterprisesDeloitteTechnology Innovation Institute

What JFrog Artifactory's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: jfrog.com, jfrog.com/pricing, jfrog.com/trust, jfrog.com/platform, jfrog.com/about/customers. A claimed page can correct any of them.

Is this your product?

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 JFrog Artifactory'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 JFrog Artifactory, 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 JFrog Artifactory by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where JFrog Artifactory 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 JFrog Artifactory, 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.

Badges

Wins only: a badge exists where JFrog Artifactory is ranked in a category's top three this edition. Three sizes, one file each, light and dark; the code is under each.

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AI models recommend JFrog Artifactory first in Artifact and container registries this edition. Each badge says so in the buyer's words, names the edition, and links to the standing. The next edition issues a new badge; this one stays true as a record of October 2026.

Wide · 320 × 104 Website, beside other badges

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/developer/artifact-and-container-registries/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/jfrog-artifactory--artifact-and-container-registries-wide.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Artifact and container registries, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="320" height="104"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Artifact and container registries standing, where the claim can be checked.

Square · 240 × 240 LinkedIn, slides

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/developer/artifact-and-container-registries/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/jfrog-artifactory--artifact-and-container-registries-square.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Artifact and container registries, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="240" height="240"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Artifact and container registries standing, where the claim can be checked.

Compact · 200 × 56 Email signature, footer

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<a href="https://it-ai-index.com/developer/artifact-and-container-registries/"><img src="https://it-ai-index.com/badges/2026-10/jfrog-artifactory--artifact-and-container-registries-compact.svg" alt="AI models' first choice in Artifact and container registries, October 2026 Edition, IT AI Recommendation Index" width="200" height="56"></a>

Copy the code as it is. The link is part of the badge: it points at the Artifact and container registries standing, where the claim can be checked.

Badges read on light and dark pages. Alt text carries the claim, the category, the edition and the index, so it stays a citation where the image does not load.