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CloudBees vs JFrog Artifactory comparison

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Categories and Ranking

CloudBees
Ranking in AI Software Development
23rd
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
7.0
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
Build Automation (10th), Configuration Management (12th), Value Stream Management Software (2nd), DevSecOps (9th), AI-Augmented Software-Testing Tools (4th), Feature Management (3rd)
JFrog Artifactory
Ranking in AI Software Development
4th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
18
Ranking in other categories
Repository Managers (2nd)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the AI Software Development category, the mindshare of CloudBees is 0.4%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of JFrog Artifactory is 0.4%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AI Software Development Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
JFrog Artifactory0.4%
CloudBees0.4%
Other99.2%
AI Software Development
 

Featured Reviews

KishoreKumar4 - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Qe Lead at Cognizant
Consistent automation has improved deployments and supports efficient client-facing workflows
Deployment and other processes are feasible for me, making this a smooth process. The integration part is good. We can use multiple things by integrating with CI/CD pipelines, and this is very feasible for us. This allows us to do our work easily. The productivity is very good. CloudBees is a good and efficient tool. We can work in client-facing scenarios, and since clients have provided these types of tools, we are able to work on them effectively.
FilipGrasheski - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Manager - Platform Lead at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees
Standardized artifact workflows have boosted collaboration and saved significant delivery time
The best features that JFrog Artifactory offers are that you can have all kinds of artifacts, supporting many different ones such as Docker images, Helm charts, and different binaries from different software languages. It has versioning that you can use, proxying as well that you can use as a mirror proxy, and there is also nice access control around it, so you can limit who has access to which parts of your JFrog Artifactory tree. Regarding access control and proxying, those features help my team by making it easy to provide read access to many different teams for different artifact repositories, which works really nicely when you have many teams requiring the same package but then have one team that is actually the developer of that package or artifact. In terms of the proxy, you can use it as a mirror proxy so that all your pulls for an image can go through JFrog Artifactory before they reach Docker or something, adding an extra layer of security in the company. JFrog Artifactory has impacted my organization positively by helping us have a standard artifact management solution, so everybody is aligned, allowing us to use the same best practices and same documentation, making it easy to implement in many different pipelines. Having a standard solution such as JFrog Artifactory has affected productivity and collaboration positively. Documentation is available for everybody that is using it, so my team, as clients to JFrog Artifactory, finds it easy to pull the documentation and implement it in our pipelines or for whatever needs we have related to JFrog Artifactory, which eases up collaboration by providing a single way of doing package management.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"The solution's most valuable feature is its flexibility."
"The most valuable feature of the solution is that its GUI is quite simple."
"CloudBees is a user-friendly tool."
"CloudBees operates seamlessly. Deploying to a cluster is straightforward—just one click, and the job is done."
"The most valuable features are Java features, microservice communication, payment validation, Jenkins Sonar, management master to CloudBees, Blue Ocean, JobConfig, and support."
"CloudBees is a good and efficient tool."
"The most beneficial aspect is that CloudBees integrates with everything, like version one, GitHub, and PDM."
"Scalability largely depends on how the tool is set up within your infrastructure"
"For the most part, it's pretty stable."
"Having a standard solution such as JFrog Artifactory has affected productivity and collaboration positively."
"Since we started using JFrog Artifactory, we no longer manage our own server just to keep source code and binary code, as all our binary repositories are in JFrog Artifactory, making it a very good repository manager where we can store all our artifacts in one easily accessible place without worrying about downtime or application unavailability, while also providing a proxy for remote applications that has transformed our release process to be faster."
"JFrog Artifactory has positively impacted my organization by centralizing artifact management and improving consistency across builds."
"The feature that I like is Permission Targets. If I want to give permission to only deploy the cache, I can give that permission to a set of users. Similarly, if I want to overwrite an artifact with the same name from the same pipeline, I can give permission for that as well to particular users."
"Universal package support and custom properties help my team day-to-day by making us more efficient, as we have one tool with which all engineering teams can interact regardless of their team."
"JFrog Artifactory proved very helpful in supporting a variety of package types for different projects."
"As for specific outcomes about the positive impact from expanding to four or five verticals, we have achieved faster deployment speeds, faster time to market, and lower pipeline failure rates."
 

Cons

"To use the tool, you need to be familiar with the tool itself and with how it will be incorporated into the culture."
"I noticed that CloudBees runs too slowly because some applications run more than 50 pipelines."
"I would like to see improved speed and availability."
"I think a preview of the errors would be good just at the point where the error occurs."
"Improvements in resolution time may vary since every environment has different needs."
"The problem with CloudBees is that when you merge it, the pipelines would randomly fail multiple times."
"For CloudBees, I can suggest that the log is very high, which is very hectic for us when trying to find which error is coming."
"We did face some challenges, particularly with the infrastructure."
"In some of the latest versions of JFrog's SaaS solution, they changed the user interface, the SSO settings, how you interact with them over API, and how you generate tokens. It was very confusing for me. The overall user management is very complicated."
"It's an enterprise product that acts like an enterprise product. In other words, it's not a product where they focus on user experience. I wasn't an administrator, so I primarily worked with the command line tool to upload and download parts of the product. I was not impressed with that because it wasn't well documented. It was challenging to figure out how to get things to work."
"It's an enterprise product that acts like an enterprise product. In other words, it's not a product where they focus on user experience."
"The documentation is a bit sparse. That's our only complaint."
"I choose a nine out of ten because, as mentioned in my previous answer, it sometimes faces performance issues due to slow repository response and long download times for artifacts, which affects overall performance."
"Although JQL is a great tool, I have noticed that JQL queries can be hard to learn."
"The latest version that I am using is 7.41. It has been upgraded graphics-wise, but there is a bit of slowness. They can improve the graphical interface for the admin jobs and make it faster."
"The complexity of managing the tool and the high cost prevent it from being a ten, especially considering there are cloud-native alternatives that are cheaper and easier to use."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

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"It is a bit expensive. It could be a little bit lower or have an a la carte option because, in our case, we had to go to the next version of Enterprise X because we needed one feature, which was more than three projects. We don't need all the other capabilities, but we're paying for all those. It's almost twice the cost of the previous version. So, it would be nice to have something along those lines."
"I am not aware of its cost, but it is worth investing in this. My guess is that its price is not much because we generally prefer open-source solutions, and if we are investing, we don't go for expensive ones. Our selection is based on the market demand and needs, and we invest only if something is worth the cost."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
17%
Manufacturing Company
17%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Outsourcing Company
9%
Financial Services Firm
16%
Manufacturing Company
12%
Computer Software Company
12%
Comms Service Provider
10%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business2
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise18
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise4
Large Enterprise12
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with CloudBees?
For CloudBees, I can suggest that the log is very high, which is very hectic for us when trying to find which error is coming. This creates complexity. If possible, we could sort the logs so we can...
What is your primary use case for CloudBees?
We use CloudBees for deploying the code in higher environments, such as QA, C2, staging, and production.
What advice do you have for others considering CloudBees?
We can upload the JAR file and deploy at the Jenkins level during our deployment. These types of labels and IDs can be deployed using CloudBees. Once we click to start the build, it automatically r...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for JFrog Artifactory?
I do not have much experience with pricing, setup cost, and licensing, as it was set up by a different team.
What needs improvement with JFrog Artifactory?
I cannot say much about how JFrog Artifactory can be improved. I appreciate the opportunity to add more about the needed improvements, even small ones. Maybe around user experience, I think one imp...
What is your primary use case for JFrog Artifactory?
My main use case for JFrog Artifactory is hosting artifacts for products, ranging from Docker images to Helm charts, and regular binaries. I can give you a specific example of how I use JFrog Artif...
 

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Sample Customers

Capital One, PEGA, vistaprint, HSBC, BOSCH, Starbucks Coffee
Oracle, Cisco, Cars.com, Riot Games, Google, CA Technologies
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