Cloudsmith
Cloud-Native Artifact Management Platform
- Also known as
- cloudsmith
What is Cloudsmith?
Universal artifact management solution for controlling, securing, and distributing packages and containers in your software supply chain with supply chain security, observability, and analytics.
What Cloudsmith does
The capabilities that matter for container registries, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Hosting
- Cloud only
- OCI Distribution Spec compliant
- ✓
- Artifact types
- Universal (images + language packages)
- Built-in vulnerability scanning
- -
- Image signing (Cosign/Notation)
- -
- SBOM generation / storage
- -
- Fine-grained RBAC / robot accounts
- ✓
- Private repositories
- ✓
- Geo-replication / mirroring
- -
- Pull-through cache / proxy
- ✓
- Native cloud IAM integration
- -
- Pull-rate limits
- -
- Web UI / console
- ✓
- High-availability deployment
- ✓
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- CLI
- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Cloudsmith alternatives
Other container registries we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- Docker HubFind and share container images with your teamlow · 28%
- Harborlow · 18%
- DistributionStateless, highly scalable open-source container image registry serverlow · 3%
- Google Artifact Registrylow · 21%
- Chainguard RegistryThe trusted source for open sourcemedium · 50%
- DigitalOcean Container RegistryStore and manage your private container images in a registry co-located with DigitalOcean Kubernetes clusterslow · 21%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Cloudsmith, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security Posture | 70 | 26.00 | 1820.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 81 | 14.00 | 1136.1 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 8.00 | 400.0 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 0 | 4.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Integrations | 0 | 8.00 | 0.0 | - |
| Pricing Transparency | 0 | 6.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"rbac":true,"web_ui":true,"hosting":"cloud","oci_compliant":true,"private_repos":true,"artifact_types":"universal","high_availability":true,"pull_through_cache":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Pricing
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Model | commercial | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |