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JFrog Artifactory vs Spacelift comparison

 

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Categories and Ranking

JFrog Artifactory
Ranking in AI Software Development
24th
Average Rating
8.2
Reviews Sentiment
7.4
Number of Reviews
14
Ranking in other categories
Repository Managers (2nd)
Spacelift
Ranking in AI Software Development
18th
Average Rating
8.0
Reviews Sentiment
7.2
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
Cloud Management (20th)
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the AI Software Development category, the mindshare of JFrog Artifactory is 0.4%. The mindshare of Spacelift is 0.4%. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
AI Software Development Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
Spacelift0.4%
JFrog Artifactory0.4%
Other99.2%
AI Software Development
 

Featured Reviews

reviewer2787339 - PeerSpot reviewer
Vice President at a financial services firm with 10,001+ employees
Integrated pipelines have improved enterprise deployments and now automate secure dependency flows
Regarding improvements for JFrog Artifactory, I remember that the documentation was more focused on the on-premises JFrog version. I was mostly redirected toward that, so I found a lack of specific or clear documentation on using JFrog Artifactory with AWS. I felt this gap two years ago, and there were capabilities such as X-ray or integrations with other AWS features that I found lacking at the time. I do not have much more to say about the needed improvements in integration or documentation, but I want to mention that, coming from a quality background, I think built-in quality gates for intelligent automation, vulnerability checks, or improved visibility and communication during slow responses or service downtime would be useful for visibility in distributed environments. Looking back, I think the learning curve for JFrog Artifactory could be eased, and the installation process could feel less overwhelming. While it is not that difficult, I have seen new joiners struggle with the initial setup. I think JFrog Artifactory could improve with some UX revamps since many tools these days provide very intuitive user experiences, and I believe that could be something to look into for the future.
Sudheer Kumar Jamjam - PeerSpot reviewer
Technical Lead Cloud DevOps Engineer at Deloitte
Everything can be visibly managed, scheduling and state management features are pretty good
We've integrated it with source control management tools like GitLab and Bitbucket. The scheduling and state management features are pretty good using Spacelift. It integrates with tools like Terraform and Kubernetes for policies, but we haven't worked on the compliance part. Spacelift streamlines collaboration among our development and operations teams. We use it for CI/CD as well. It can handle automation strategies. Whenever you put your YAML files and integrate them with Spacelift, it will scan the code and show where you need to make changes.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"For the most part, it's pretty stable."
"The most valuable feature is that it is a centralized repository and that you can open multiple repositories for different types of artifacts."
"The core functionality is most valuable for indexing and metadata of all the artifacts, but within the last year or two, we've been using the Projects feature, which has been very helpful. We can now assign individual admins for different projects and repos so that they can self-manage their own user permissions for their data. My IT DevOps team doesn't have to be the facilitators of that. It's now more of a self-service capability for them."
"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."
"The package registries have been helpful. GitLab, our previous solution, wasn't managing that well."
"HPE was using it for a lot of things, and they certainly had a massive implementation."
"The most valuable feature I have found is the JFrog CLI."
"A valuable feature of Spacelift is that you can attach labels, and it is a modernized tool for infrastructure deployments. It is pull request-based, and you can see all the Terraform plan and apply logs on the pull request itself, which is not available across any other CI/CD tools."
"One key feature is the Spacelift policies, which we can attach to deployments to ensure compliance with our standards."
"Knowing the HashiCorp Configuration Language (HCL) makes it easier to use without issues."
"Spacelift is like an extension of Terraform, where everything can be visibly managed."
"I appreciate that I just have to connect to my AWS account with my credentials, and Spacelift handles the rest."
 

Cons

"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."
"We're looking for something that has additional reporting capabilities on data growth and data aging. This goes back to storage lifecycle management so that the actual Artifactory itself can provide these reports to either the administrators or the users. I don't know if it has those capabilities. That's something we have to look into regarding the self-service dashboard, but the tool itself having those capabilities would be great rather than trying to do it at the underlying storage hardware layer."
"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."
"I would like to see written technical support instead of having to contact them directly."
"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."
"The documentation is a bit sparse. That's our only complaint."
"Sometimes the documentation was sort of messy because there are many possibilities for where and how to install Artifactory."
"Synchronization can be difficult when using older and newer versions with Kubernetes and HashiCorp."
"In the free version, there's no straightforward way to be notified once a deployment is finished."
"If you are a small enterprise organization, below 500 people, I would not recommend it."
"The self-hosted version does not have a lot of features compared to the SaaS version, such as cloud integrations for Azure and GCP."
"Spacelift currently lacks features that can help with complex type deployments and coordination for major deployments."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"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."
"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."
"It is a bit expensive product."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Financial Services Firm
18%
Computer Software Company
13%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
7%
Financial Services Firm
13%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Computer Software Company
9%
Educational Organization
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business4
Midsize Enterprise2
Large Enterprise10
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Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with JFrog Artifactory?
JFrog could improve this product with tighter integration capabilities.
What is your primary use case for JFrog Artifactory?
JFrog Artifactory is designed for software management. We used it for storing all assets and packages that were downloaded from external package systems, making them available for our development t...
What advice do you have for others considering JFrog Artifactory?
I am no longer using JFrog Artifactory in my current role as I moved away from the team. The metadata management features were very useful, particularly for managing packages inside JFrog Artifacto...
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Spacelift?
I've never checked the pricing because I enjoy using it for free. Besides the notification feature, I haven't needed any paid features.
What needs improvement with Spacelift?
There are a few areas for improvement. For instance, getting notification webhooks is not easy. In the free version, there's no straightforward way to be notified once a deployment is finished. Spa...
What is your primary use case for Spacelift?
I use Spacelift to deploy my applications, particularly AWS applications and infrastructure to my personal AWS account.
 

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Sample Customers

Oracle, Cisco, Cars.com, Riot Games, Google, CA Technologies
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