Every category where a model named Sonatype Nexus Repository 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	11%	2 of 89	5%	20	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Sonatype Nexus Repository 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 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	0	0	0
GPT-5.4 mini	1	0	1	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	2	0	0	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	1	1	0	2
Grok 4.1 Fast	0	0	1	1	2
Mistral Small	0	0	0	0	0
DeepSeek V4 Flash	1	0	1	0	2
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	0	0	1	0	1
Kimi K2	0	1	0	0	1
GLM 4.7 FlashX	2	1	0	0	3
MiniMax M2.5	1	0	0	0	1
GPT-6 Luna	0	2	0	0	2
Muse Glimmer 30B	2	0	0	0	2

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

Direct26 labels13

Paraphrase2 labelsNone

Comparative22 labels2not counted in share

Budget-constrained11 labels9

Scale-constrained11 labels2

Negative3 labelsNone

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative75 labels in all, every segment counted; 24 of the 26 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.

“Enterprise-grade artifact repository manager that allows development teams to store, organize, and distribute software components... Both are viable for a 500-person company.” Muse Glimmer 30B · Artifact registries · scale prompt · first choice

“the best artifact repository for a company with a limited budget is Sonatype Nexus Repository (Community Edition)” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Artifact registries · budget prompt · first choice

“For most mid-market B2B companies, Sonatype Nexus Repository Pro is the strongest all-around recommendation” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Artifact registries · direct prompt · first choice

“For most mid-market B2B companies, I'd recommend Sonatype Nexus Repository Pro” MiniMax M2.5 · 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.

“Limited integrations vs. leaders; self-host adds ops overhead.” Grok 4.1 Fast · Artifact registries · direct prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Sonatype Nexus Repository, over the 75 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Sonatype Nexus Repository was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

JFrog Artifactory70 of 7522Compare →

Google Artifact Registry38 of 753Not among the top eight

GitHub Packages37 of 758Compare →

Cloudsmith33 of 753Compare →

Harbor29 of 750Not among the top eight

AWS CodeArtifact28 of 750Not among the top eight

Azure Container Registry24 of 753Compare →

Azure Artifacts19 of 750Not among the top eight

Docker Hub17 of 750Not among the top eight

AWS ECR9 of 752Not 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. 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 68 of the 75 answers that named Sonatype Nexus Repository and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

sonatype.comYour site42

jfrog.com40

harness.io36

thectoclub.com29

cloudrepo.io27

safeguard.sh23

itechguides.com22

cloudsmith.com19

sourceforge.net19

zipdo.co18

233 of the 275 domain citations in answers naming Sonatype Nexus Repository came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

sonatype.com/products/sonatype-nexus-repository31

harness.io/blog/best-artifact-repository-tools30

sonatype.com/compare/best-artifact-repository-solutions30

thectoclub.com/tools/best-artifact-repository-tools29

jfrog.com/pricing20

cloudrepo.io/articles/best-artifactory-alternatives19

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

sonatype.com/resources/guides/sonatype-vs-jfrog17

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 takes 11% 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

Searches for its name, Google: 720 a month (“sonatype nexus repository”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 38 a month
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

11%

rank 2 of 89 in artifact registries

Segment leader

14%

JFrog Artifactory

First choices: 24 across its categories
Named in: 75 answers
Its own site cited: in 68 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.

Names read as Sonatype Nexus Repository

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

Sonatype Nexus Repository (Community Edition) 1Sonatype Nexus Repository Pro 1

Follow Sonatype Nexus Repository

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

Sonatype is the company behind Sonatype Nexus Repository.

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On record

Company records

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

In its own words

Stated by the vendor, not checked

Positioning: Cloud-Native Artifact Repository Manager
sonatype.com/products/sonatype-nexus-repository
For: development teams
sonatype.com/products/sonatype-nexus-repository
Price stated: transparent pricing sonatype.com/products/sonatype-nexus-repository
Free plan or trial: Try It Free sonatype.com/products/sonatype-nexus-repository
Integrations claimed: 20 sonatype.com/products/sonatype-nexus-repository
Certifications: RBACTLS encryptionSAML Single Sign-On (SSO)
Hosting: Cloudself-hostedair-gapped
Customers named: BNP Paribas Personal Finance
Not stated on the pages read: Starting price

What Sonatype Nexus Repository's own pages state, read October 5, 2026: sonatype.com/products/sonatype-nexus-repository, help.sonatype.com/en/sonatype-nexus-repository.html, sonatype.com/products/sonatype-nexus-repository/quote, sonatype.com/products/sonatype-nexus-repository/download, sonatype.com/products/sonatype-nexus-repository/premium-quote. 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 Sonatype Nexus Repository'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 Sonatype Nexus Repository, 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 Sonatype Nexus Repository by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Sonatype Nexus Repository 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, 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 Sonatype Nexus Repository 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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Sonatype Nexus Repository is among the products AI models recommend 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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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.