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Sonatype Nexus Repository OSS / Community Edition

2Judge labels

2First choices

0Negative labels

1 / 14Models named it

1Category

October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.

Standing

1 label, too few to rank

A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. Sonatype Nexus Repository OSS / Community Edition was named 1 time in Artifact registries, where JFrog Artifactory led with 14%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.

By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.

Small business21 of 86

under the label threshold

Mid-market22 of 89

under the label threshold

Enterprisenot named

No model named it for this buyer.

In artifact registries · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named Sonatype Nexus Repository OSS / Community Edition 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	2%	22 of 89	0%	1	under 10 labels · led by JFrog Artifactory at 14%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Sonatype Nexus Repository OSS / Community Edition 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 Sonatype Nexus Repository OSS / Community Edition 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	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	0	0
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	0
Perplexity Sonar	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0
Mistral Small	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	0
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0
Kimi K2	0	0
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	0
MiniMax M2.5	0	0
GPT-6 Luna	0	0
Muse Glimmer 30B	1	1

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

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase0 labelsNone

Comparative0 labelsNone

Budget-constrained2 labels2

Scale-constrained0 labelsNone

Negative0 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative2 labels in all, every segment counted; 2 of the 2 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.

“Best all-round free for small company: Sonatype Nexus Repository OSS / Community Edition.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Artifact registries · budget 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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Sonatype Nexus Repository OSS / Community Edition, over the 2 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Sonatype Nexus Repository OSS / Community Edition was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Dist2 of 20Not among the top eight

Apache Maven repository1 of 20Not among the top eight

Artifact Depot1 of 20Not among the top eight

Cloudsmith1 of 20Not among the top eight

GitHub Packages1 of 20Not among the top eight

GitLab Package Registry1 of 20Not among the top eight

Google Artifact Registry1 of 20Not among the top eight

JFrog Artifactory Community / OSS Edition1 of 20Not among the top eight

JFrog Artifactory OSS1 of 20Not among the top eight

Nexspence — Universal Artifact Repository Manager1 of 20Not among the top eight

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 Sonatype Nexus Repository OSS / Community Edition. 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 2 of the 2 answers that named Sonatype Nexus Repository OSS / Community Edition and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

cloudrepo.io2

geekflare.com2

harness.io2

hokstadconsulting.com2

jfrog.com2

sonatype.comYour site2

app.thetestingacademy.com1

blog.repsy.io1

cloudification.io1

imaginarycloud.com1

Fourteen of the sixteen domain citations in answers naming Sonatype Nexus Repository OSS / Community Edition came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

cloudrepo.io/articles/best-artifactory-alternatives2

geekflare.com/dev/best-repository-management-software2

harness.io/blog/best-artifact-repository-tools2

hokstadconsulting.com/blog/open-source-vs-proprietary-artifact-tools-key-differences2

jfrog.com/blog/what-is-artifactory-jfrog2

sonatype.com/products/sonatype-nexus-repository2

app.thetestingacademy.com/playwright/learn/playwright-registry1

blog.repsy.io/posts/creating-a-free-private-maven-artifact-repository-in-seconds1

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

sonatype.com ranks 5 on Google for the category's searches. In the answers, Sonatype Nexus Repository OSS / Community Edition takes 2% of first choices and JFrog Artifactory takes 14%.

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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

Its company's site: sonatype.com shared with Sonatype's other products; the figures are the site's
Organic visits to its site: about 71,814 a month
Searches its site ranks for: 9,746 · 1,349 in the top three
Sites linking to it: 13,346
Paid Google search: 1 searches its ads show for, about 63 clicks and $1,879 a month (estimate)

Ads on GoogleDetailLess

10 ads · 10 text · 7 shown in the last 30 days

First shown September 2024, as Hero Digital LLC. Ads started 2025-10 to 2026-09: 7 in the year, 3 before.

On Google's pages: 1 2 3 4

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 22 of 89 in artifact registries

Segment leader

14%

JFrog Artifactory

First choices: 2 across its categories
Named in: 2 answers
Its own site cited: in 2 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.

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The company

Sonatype is the company behind Sonatype Nexus Repository OSS / Community Edition.

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On record

Company records

Also from Sonatype: Sonatype Lifecycle, Sonatype Nexus IQ, Sonatype Nexus OSS, Sonatype Nexus Repository, Sonatype Nexus Repository Community Edition, Sonatype Nexus Repository OSS

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Manage all your components in Sonatype Nexus Repository Community Edition – the world's #1 binary artifact repository.
sonatype.com/products/sonatype-nexus-oss-download
For: small team solution
sonatype.com/products/sonatype-nexus-oss-download
Price stated: There is no cost to use Sonatype Nexus Repository Community Edition. sonatype.com/products/sonatype-nexus-oss-download
Free plan or trial: You can get started for free, no credit card is required. sonatype.com/products/sonatype-nexus-oss-download
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price, integrations, certifications, hosting, customers

What Sonatype Nexus Repository OSS / Community Edition's own pages state, read October 6, 2026: sonatype.com/products/sonatype-nexus-oss-download, sonatype.com/products/nexus-community-edition-download, help.sonatype.com/en/sonatype-nexus-repository-3-96-0-release-notes.html, help.sonatype.com/en/sonatype-nexus-repository-3-95-0-release-notes.html, help.sonatype.com/en/sonatype-nexus-repository-3-94-0-release-notes.html. A claimed page can correct any of them.

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A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Sonatype Nexus Repository OSS / Community Edition by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Sonatype Nexus Repository OSS / Community Edition 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 Sonatype Nexus Repository OSS / Community Edition, 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.