Pricing comparison
JFrog list prices read 1 September 2026JFrog publishes what self-managed Artifactory costs: from $27,000 a year for one server, and from $51,000 for three. Below are those figures exactly as JFrog lists them, next to what the equivalent costs on OrbitalReg — starting at nothing.
We have not converted currencies and we have not calculated a savings figure for you. The two products quote in different currencies and license different units, so any single number would be our arithmetic rather than a fact. The figures are here; the sum is yours.
Tier by tier
JFrog's self-managed plans are the fair comparison — both products run on your own hardware. JFrog's cloud plans start lower and then bill for storage and transfer on top.
JFrog
Artifactory Pro X
from $27,000
per year · 1 server
The cheapest self-managed plan JFrog lists. There is no plain self-hosted "Pro" tier below it.
OrbitalReg
OrbitalReg Free
€0
forever · no contract
Scanning, curated proxies, quarantine, verify-on-pull gates and the audit log, on your own hardware. A 30-day trial opens everything; when it ends, the security layer keeps running.
JFrog
Artifactory Enterprise X
from $51,000
per year · 3 servers
Adds high availability, federation and the advanced security options to the Pro X feature set.
OrbitalReg
OrbitalReg Commercial
€10,000
in year one · 3 cluster licences
Three cluster licences — dev, main, prod — and each one scales to as many nodes, regions and replicas as you need at no extra fee.
JFrog
Artifactory Enterprise +
Contact sales
custom · 6 servers
Multisite federation, distribution and the higher availability options. No public number.
OrbitalReg
OrbitalReg Long-term Partner
Lifetime-locked
three-year term · sized to your company
The price you sign is the price you keep. No renewal uplift, no audit-driven true-up, no list-price markup for being large.
JFrog figures are list prices published at jfrog.com/pricing, read on 1 September 2026. JFrog has restructured its self-managed plans more than once, so verify the current page before you budget. Negotiated pricing is not public and may differ from list. OrbitalReg's Design Partner tier (€100 per year) is a limited cohort with feedback commitments rather than a general plan — details on our pricing section.
Read the unit, not just the number
What JFrog counts
Artifactory's self-managed tiers are sized in servers: one at Pro X, three at Enterprise X, six at Enterprise +. Growing past the count in your tier is a commercial conversation, which is why the step from one server to three is also a step from $27,000 to $51,000.
What we count
We license clusters, not machines. Three cluster licences — typically dev, main and prod — and each cluster runs as many nodes, regions and replicas as you need without a further fee. Scaling out is an infrastructure decision, not a licensing one.
We are pointing this out rather than hiding it, because it cuts our way and because a comparison that quietly equates the two units would not survive contact with anyone who reads both contracts. If your Artifactory estate is three servers, three OrbitalReg cluster licences is not the equivalent — it is more headroom than you had.
What the money buys
Not a feature count — the handful of line items that decide what a registry costs you over three years.
| Cost driver | JFrog Artifactory | OrbitalReg |
|---|---|---|
| Entry price, self-managed | from $27,000/yr — Pro X, 1 server | €0 — free version, no contract |
| Licensing unit | Per server, by tier | Per cluster — unlimited nodes inside it |
| Per-user or per-seat charges | Not on the self-managed list price | None — never per user |
| Storage and transfer metering | On cloud plans — billed per GB above quota | None — it is your disk |
| Security scanning | Bundled into the X tiers | Included — in every tier, including free |
| Air-gapped operation | Enterprise tiers | Included — one config flip, no phone-home |
| Renewal behaviour | Subject to list-price changes | Lifetime lock — available on a three-year term |
| Proprietary vulnerability research | Yes — JFrog security research team | No — Trivy and Grype, open-source engines |
| 24/7 global support | Yes — on enterprise tiers | Add-on — small team, business hours by default |
| Track record | Established — large installed base | Young — founded 2024, first cohort onboarding |
Why the gap is this wide
No sales organisation
There is no field sales team, no regional quota, no commission loaded into the number you are quoted. The founder does the walkthroughs. That is cheaper to run, and it is why the price is the same whether you found us in March or in November.
We charge per deployment
Not per user, not per gigabyte, not per environment. Your bill does not grow because you hired, because a build got chatty, or because someone added a staging cluster. The thing you pay for is the deployment, and it stays still.
Security is not an upsell
Scanning, curation, quarantine and pull-gates are the product, so there is no second licence to add and no tier to climb to switch them on. They run in the free version too — see the Xray and Curation comparison.
What the lower price costs you
Vendor size is a real feature. JFrog has a dedicated security research team producing proprietary vulnerability analysis; we run open-source scanner engines and say so. They have a global support organisation; we are a small team in Germany. They have a decade of production installs behind them; we are onboarding our first cohort.
If your procurement requires a vendor of that size, or your security programme depends on proprietary research feeds, the honest answer is that the cheaper option is not automatically the right one. What we will not do is pretend that gap away in order to win a comparison page.
Questions we get asked
How much does JFrog Artifactory cost?
Self-managed, JFrog publishes three plans: Artifactory Pro X from $27,000 per year for one server, Enterprise X from $51,000 per year for three servers, and Enterprise + at custom pricing for six servers. Cloud plans start lower — $150 per month for Pro — but bill for storage and transfer on top of the subscription. Figures read from jfrog.com/pricing on 1 September 2026; JFrog changes its packaging periodically, so check the current page before you budget.
Is there a cheaper self-hosted Artifactory plan than Pro X?
Not on the published price list. JFrog restructured its self-managed plans into the "X" tiers, which bundle the security scanning that used to be sold separately as Xray. Pro X is the entry point for running Artifactory on your own hardware.
What does OrbitalReg cost?
Nothing, if the free version covers you: scanning, curated proxies, patch-version quarantine, verify-on-pull gates and the SIEM-ready audit log run free forever on your own hardware, with no contract and no signup wall. The Commercial tier is €10,000 in year one for three cluster licences with unlimited scaling per cluster, and the Long-term Partner tier locks a price for a three-year term. There is also a €100 Design Partner tier, limited to a small cohort who commit to regular feedback.
Why is OrbitalReg so much cheaper than Artifactory?
Three reasons, and none of them are a trick. We are a small team with no field sales organisation, so there is no commission load in the price. We charge per deployment rather than per user or per gigabyte, so your bill does not grow because your team or your storage did. And we do not sell security as an upgrade — it is the product, so there is no second licence to add. What you give up is the size of the vendor: a younger product, no proprietary vulnerability research, and support that is a small team rather than a global follow-the-sun desk.
Can I migrate from Artifactory to OrbitalReg?
Yes. OrbitalReg ships importers for the major registries, including Artifactory, and the migration guide walks through bulk-importing repositories, preserving build-info provenance, and running both registries side by side while you cut over.
Before the renewal lands
OrbitalReg installs from one Helm chart and imports from Artifactory, so you can point a repository at it and keep the incumbent running while you look. The migration guide covers bulk import and the cut-over; if you would rather talk it through, Rico — the founder — does the walkthroughs himself.
