A Nexus alternative with no servers to run

Self-hosted Nexus Repository Pro starts at $7,500 a year, before the servers you run, patch and back up. CloudRepo is a managed service from $99/month billed annually, with storage, a transfer allowance, unlimited users and engineer support in the plan.

Competitor figures were read on 2026-10-06 from: Sonatype pricing (archived). Vendors change prices and plans, so check each page before you decide.

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Leaving Nexus? cloudrepo-migrate copies your hosted Maven, npm, PyPI and Docker repositories (Nexus 3; Maven and npm from Nexus 2) into CloudRepo and checks every file against the original. Read the Nexus 3 migration guide

Terminal window
pipx install cloudrepo-migrate

MFA, SSO and audit log on every plan

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CloudRepo Essentials vs Nexus Pro Cloud

Sonatype also sells Nexus as a cloud service. Here are both entry plans at their published prices. Sources are under the table.

CloudRepo Essentials compared with Sonatype Nexus Repository Pro Cloud
Question CloudRepo Essentials Sonatype Nexus Pro Cloud
Entry price $99/month billed annually, $1,188 a year $1,950/year plus consumption [1]
Included each month 10 GB storage and 250 GB transfer 25 GB, then $1.10/GB of consumption [1]
Users Unlimited, on every plan New contracts are priced by consumption [2]
Support Human support, on every plan Pro lists enterprise support, SLA and migration services as available [1]
Audit log Included on all plans Pro lists an Audit Log API [2]
Sources (2): each vendor's own pages, read 2026-10-06 to 2026-10-21. Prices as each vendor listed them on the date shown.
  1. Sonatype pricing, read (archived)
  2. Sonatype pricing, read

For the self-hosted license and Sonatype's consumption tiers, see our Sonatype Nexus pricing guide.

Pricing your whole team for a year? Open the ROI calculator

Price your own month

Starter: up to 50 GB stored and 1 TB transfer a month

Storage Needed
Transfer a month (downloads)

Start from a plan's allowance

Plan: Starter

CloudRepo

Predictable
Plan Starter
Storage Included 50 GB
Transfer Included 1 TB / month
Price $259/month billed monthly $199/month billed annually

If you exceed your monthly transfer allowance, we reach out first. Nothing is throttled, no build ever stops, and there are no automatic charges. Occasional spikes are simply fine. Sustained overage is billed at $120 per additional TB, always rounded down in your favor (2.9 TB over = 2 TB billed = $240). Storage growth is a prorated one-click plan upgrade, not per-GB fees.

Nexus Repository

Consumption

Pro Cloud, annual plan: the base fee divided by 12, plus consumption.

Base Cost $162.50
Usage Costs $922.50
Monthly $1,085
12 months $13,020

50 GB storage + 1 TB transfer. 1,025 GB used beyond what is included, billed at tiered rates.

Sonatype list price: $1,950 a year plus usage, 25 GB included (checked 2026-10-06). Their tier table can be read two ways; we use the lower one.

Every CloudRepo plan includes

  • SSO
  • Human support from the people who build CloudRepo
  • Nothing to host, patch or upgrade: we run it for you

Competitor figures were read on 2026-10-06 from: Sonatype pricing (archived), Sonatype usage limits (archived). Vendors change prices and plans, so check each page before you decide.

What you stop doing when you leave a Nexus server

  • No server to size, patch or back up

    Self-hosted Nexus is yours to run: the host, the OS updates, the database and blob store backups, the upgrades. CloudRepo is a service we run.

  • One plan price

    No per-seat license and no separate support contract. Every feature is on every plan.

  • No CVEs to chase

    We patch CloudRepo, so you don't. Still on Nexus today? Our lookup shows which CVEs hit your version and the fix for your branch.

    Check your Nexus version

Moving off Nexus in four steps

CloudRepo uses the same repository protocols, so the move is a copy of your artifacts and new URLs.

  1. Step 1

    Move it with one command

    Install the migration tool, then do a dry run: it lists what would move and uploads nothing.

    Terminal
    pipx install cloudrepo-migrate
    cloudrepo-migrate nexus3 --nexus-url https://nexus.example.com --org your-org --dry-run

    Without --dry-run, cloudrepo-migrate nexus3 moves a Nexus 3 server's hosted Maven, npm and PyPI repositories and checks every file it moves. cloudrepo-migrate 0.6.0 and later also move every tag of every image in a Nexus 3 server's hosted Docker repositories. It reads your Nexus login from NEXUS_USERNAME and NEXUS_PASSWORD, and your repository token from CLOUDREPO_TOKEN. Set them as environment variables, never as arguments to the command.

    Read the Nexus 3 migration guide
  2. Step 2

    Copy the rest with your own tools

    For a format the tool does not move, export the files from Nexus and upload them with the Maven, npm and pip commands you already use.

    See the export steps
  3. Step 3

    Point builds at CloudRepo

    Change the repository URLs in settings.xml, .npmrc and pip.conf, and in your CI pipelines. Credentials are standard token authentication.

  4. Step 4

    Verify, then retire Nexus

    Run your builds until every dependency resolves from CloudRepo, then shut down the Nexus servers.

On Nexus 2, cloudrepo-migrate nexus2 moves the hosted Maven and npm repositories the same way: see the Nexus 2 migration guide.

Questions teams ask before they switch

Is CloudRepo a drop-in replacement for Sonatype Nexus?
Yes, for Maven, npm, PyPI and Docker. CloudRepo speaks the same protocols, so your build tools need only the new URLs and credentials. The difference is that CloudRepo is fully managed: no servers to maintain, no updates to apply, no backups to configure.
What formats does CloudRepo support compared to Nexus?
CloudRepo supports Maven, npm, Python (PyPI), and Docker/OCI repositories. Gradle and sbt use a Maven repository, which also serves raw files over HTTP, and Helm charts are stored over OCI in a Docker repository. Nexus supports more formats. If you build Java, JavaScript, Python or containers, CloudRepo has what you need, and there's no server to run.
How much can I save switching from Nexus to CloudRepo?
Self-hosted Nexus Pro licenses start at $7,500/year, plus the servers, storage, networking and the time to run them. CloudRepo starts at $1,188/year billed annually with every feature on every plan.
Do I need to migrate all my artifacts at once?
No. Many teams publish new artifacts to CloudRepo first and keep Nexus running for older ones until they are no longer needed.

Try it with your own builds

Point one project at CloudRepo for 14 days, then decide whether the Nexus server goes.

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