Cloudsmith Pricing Overview

I highly appreciate Cloudsmith for its simplicity and comprehensive support for all artifact types, including Docker, PyPI, npm, and even raw files, which eliminates the need to juggle multiple registries and thereby reduces complexity and increases efficiency. The platform's cloud-native, fully managed nature functions as a centralized hub for securing, controlling, and distributing software assets globally. Moreover, Cloudsmith's built-in security features, such as automatic vulnerability scanning, license checks, and policy enforcement, impressively eliminate the need for additional tools, ensuring robust protection against supply-chain security risks. I am also highly satisfied with the universal format support provided by Cloudsmith, accommodating over 30 different formats, simplifying artifact management, and improving visibility by consolidating scattered artifacts into a single, easy-to-access repository. The CDN-backed delivery network augments this by ensuring speedy and reliable access to artifacts on a global scale. Overall, Cloudsmith addresses fragmented artifact management issues by offering an integrated solution that greatly enhances the modern software delivery and DevOps processes. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I find the pricing model of Cloudsmith problematic. The pricing is based on bandwidth and storage, which can become expensive for teams with large artifacts or frequent downloads. Additionally, there’s a lack of personal experience with setup and usage due to the SaaS model, which may imply a non-intuitive onboarding process or lack of clarity in its native integrations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Cloudsmith provides a simple UI to configure multiple internal and external repositories for various projects and repository types. We have some configured for our internal development uses and others for distributing artefacts and container images to customers.

We moved to Cloudsmith from Sonatype Nexus repository OSS to gain support and move to a hosted solution. The onboarding was simple, and it was easy to get our CI pipelines integrated with the service.

I particularly liked that Cloudsmith can handle the signing of RPMs, which previously was cumbersome and prone to breaking in our automated pipelines.

The ability to throttle and limit individual entitlement tokens has also been a key tool for us. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

When we first started using Cloudsmith, on paper it seemed like it ticked a lot of boxes, with security scanning, audit logging and it would allow us to simplify all our disparate repository services into one. As we are a small ISV, we opted for the Pro plan, as $700 per month to host some artefacts seemed like a silly amount of money. We understood the usage-based limits of our plan; however, we quickly realised that many of the features we liked about Cloudsmith also required the next tier plan. Even things as simple as audit logs to identify excessive bandwidth use.

Unfortunately, looking at the cost of artefact management solutions, it seems that this pricing is the norm. Whilst we like what Cloudsmith offers, the value for money doesn't quite stack up in the way it is currently priced. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.