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Cloudsmith vs. Sonatype Platform

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Cloudsmith
Score 8.0 out of 10
N/A
Cloudsmith is a fully managed solution for controlling, securing, and distributing everything that flows through a software supply chain, using cloud-native artifact management.N/A
Sonatype Platform
Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprise companies (1,001+ employees)
Sonatype secures the software supply chain and protects organizations' vital software development lifecycle(SDLC). The platform unites security teams and developers to accelerate digital innovation without sacrificing security or quality across the SDLC. With users among more than 2,000 organizations and 15 million software developers, Sonatype tools and guidance help users to deliver and maintain exceptional and secure software.
$175
per year per user
Pricing
CloudsmithSonatype Platform
Editions & Modules
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Sonatype Air-Gapped Environment Nexus Repository
$175
per year per user
Sonatype Repository Firewall
$224
per year per user
Sonatype Repository Firewall for Artifactory
$224
per year per user
Sonatype Air-Gapped Environment Repository Firewall
$230
per year per user
Sonatype Repository Firewall Cloud
$265
per year per user
Sonatype Lifecycle
$690
per year per user
Sonatype Lifecycle Cloud
$810
per year per user
Sonatype Air-Gapped Environment Lifecycle
$825
per year per user
Sonatype Nexus Repository Pro
$960
per month (billed annually)
Sonatype Nexus Repository
$960
per month (billed annually)
Sonatype SBOM Manager
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Offerings
Pricing Offerings
CloudsmithSonatype Platform
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoNo
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
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Community Pulse
CloudsmithSonatype Platform
Considered Both Products
Cloudsmith

No answer on this topic

Sonatype Platform
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Sonatype Platform
Sonatype Platform is complete tool for Software Composition Analysis. Allows policy enforcement at full SDLC which helps organizations identify and manage open-source components and dependencies, along with policy for licenses and also has additional feature for firewall. But …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Sonatype Platform
Sonatype Platform's Nexus Lifecycle performs pretty great while talking about security vulnerabilities. It uses multiple vulnerability databases and provides really detailed reports. The tool is easy to use for endusers on different levels: within the IDE, CI pipeline and in …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Sonatype Platform
Well both have their own procs and cons, As a user of Sonatype Nexus Lifecycle, I have found the overall experience highly satisfactory.
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Sonatype Platform
We chose Sonatype Platform due to its feature and support. Sonatype Platform slaes team and support team is very co-operative and quick in action. And importantly Sonatype Platform has all products which suits our CICD journey. Sonatype Platform is easy to implement and …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Sonatype Platform
JFrog is a very strong competitor for the Sonatype Platform and in some areas beats Sonatype's configuration, for example on the default options for retention, cleanup and backups. However, Sonatype Platform has easy integration at Enterprise scale, is transparant on it's …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Sonatype Platform
JFrog's architecture is significantly ahead of Sonatype's implementation. It would be a lot easier to globally manage a JFrog solution than a Sonatype solution. JFrog's UI is more user friendly and has more features. JFrog, however, is significantly behind Sonatype in the …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Sonatype Platform
Out of other products we evaluated before choosing Sonatype, the later looked far more user friendly, easy to understand and work with. This was key for us, as the tool needs to be used by many engineers that don't have security as their main focus. Having a tool that is easy …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Sonatype Platform
Sonatype nexus platform is an excellent choice in comparison to the other products. As a platform it is a combination of various modules plus it comes with the support. So its a great choice for organizations which are not looking for open source. Nexus comes with LifeCycle and …
Verified User
Anonymous
Chose Sonatype Platform
Some reasons for going with the Sonartype Nexus Platform was that it fulfilled our requirements and it was commonly used by other companies so it was fairly easy to find people who knew how to use the platform. The Sonartype Nexus Platform also had the possibility for us to …
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User Ratings
CloudsmithSonatype Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
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8.7
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Likelihood to Renew
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8.9
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Usability
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8.0
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Availability
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9.0
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Performance
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8.0
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Support Rating
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10.0
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Online Training
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8.0
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Implementation Rating
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8.0
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Configurability
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8.5
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Ease of integration
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9.0
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Product Scalability
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8.0
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Vendor post-sale
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Vendor pre-sale
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10.0
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User Testimonials
CloudsmithSonatype Platform
Likelihood to Recommend
No answers on this topic
- Guidance on remediation is very good - Vulnerability detection is very good - Support is very good - Ability to ask PMs/POs open questions at Office Hours every month is very good - Support for languages is lacking (TIOBE Index Top20) - Some features are un-neededly hidden and make the usage more complex then it needs to be
SS
Sebastian Schmidt
Senior Application Manager
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Pros
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  • Nexus firewall is a great feature enabled for all our proxy repositories which are used to download the third-party opensource packages.
  • Nexus IQ is integrated with build stage to analyze the component against evaluation policy. This helps to figure out the application security standards.
  • Nexus IQ is also having a feature to scan container images before it uploads to our private repository. This is great feature for container platforms.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Cons
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  • Recommendations for best Energy Consumption options based on existing BOM - e.g. replace component X with component Y to reduce CPU cycles.
  • More specific recommendations regarding Open Source Licensing - not just saying "Copyleft" but the next level of analysis (it's difficult - but would save a lot of time)
  • Provide specific component replacement options where no "next version" resolves a high severity vulnerability.
FF
Frederick Farber
Enterprise Architect
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Likelihood to Renew
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Sonatype supports more than 200 dev(s). It proves with the repository to store the artifacts. Allows for governance of open source software used by the different teams. It is used by security teams to scan for vulnerabilities in software(s) and in the deployed containers. It helps ensure code quality.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Usability
No answers on this topic
Overall experience is great with the Platform; however, I see some opportunity with upgrading the platform as it is missing with data of historical scans to allow reviewer to get view of trend how the application/product development team is considering fixing the issues.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Reliability and Availability
No answers on this topic
Extremely good
NM
Navneet Mittal
Senior Manager
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Performance
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Sonatype products are great value as I said but a few areas like how products use underlying resources in order to make it further lightweight, is something I would like them to consider.
NM
Navneet Mittal
Senior Manager
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Support Rating
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Support team is very pro-active and functioning very well.
Verified User
Anonymous
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Implementation Rating
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easy to implement and performing the scans via automations as well
Verified User
Anonymous
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Alternatives Considered
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JFrog is a very strong competitor for the Sonatype Platform and in some areas beats Sonatype's configuration, for example on the default options for retention, cleanup and backups. However, Sonatype Platform has easy integration at Enterprise scale, is transparant on it's roadmap, has good support and good account management. This makes Sonatype and JFrog comparable
Verified User
Anonymous
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Scalability
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Everything is very good except a little concern regarding large scale docker usage.
NM
Navneet Mittal
Senior Manager
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Return on Investment
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  • Sonatype's centralized management of artifacts have made it very easy for developers to share code in an efficient manner.
  • Sonatype's low false positive rate has made it easier to convince developers to remediate vulnerabilities
  • Sonatype's archaic architecture has made it more expensive to manage than it could be.
Verified User
Anonymous
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ScreenShots

Sonatype Platform Screenshots

Screenshot of Sonatype LifecycleScreenshot of Sonatype Lifecycle - Chrome extensionScreenshot of Sonatype Advanced Legal PackScreenshot of Sonatype Nexus RepositoryScreenshot of Sonatype Nexus Repository ManagerScreenshot of Remediation of vulnerabilities