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Sonatype

Last updated 2026-08-03 · benchmark measured 2026-09-26 — deterministic & reproducible

Sonatype provides software supply chain security and component management tools.

87/100
7/7 frames
Top 21% of 14,148 measured · #1 of 4 in artifact repository
Legit Benchmark — the simple average of 7 measured frames. Frames we could not measure are left out of the average, never counted as zero. Every frame is shown below with its evidence.
Checked 2026-09-26 · scores move as sites change

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Legit.Show scored Sonatype 87/100 on 2026-09-26, measured across all 7 frames from its public surface. legit.show/s/sonatype-com/2026-09-26

Is Sonatype production-ready?

Legit.Show scores Sonatype 87 out of 100 — the simple average of its 7 measured frames. Legit.Show ran its deterministic 7-Frame production-readiness benchmark on Sonatype (public-surface assessment), measured from the public surface with no LLM in the scoring path. Its strongest frame is Security; its weakest is Performance. Every frame it averages is published with its evidence on the Legit.Show listing.

The 7 Frames

What we measured

Who built it

Brian Fox · product account @sonatype

Who it's for

Developers · DevOps teams · Security teams · Enterprises · Organizations using open source

Pricing

Nexus Repository: Starting at $1,620/year + consumption; Guide: Starting at $1,200/year; Firewall: Starting at $4,800/year; Lifecycle: Custom pricing; Community Edition free; Free tier with up to 500

Sources and updates

Description
Taken from sonatype.com's own website on 2026-08-03.
Operator
Sonatype Inc., as named in sonatype.com's terms, privacy page or footer.
Benchmark
Measured by Legit.Show from the live site, the way any visitor sees it — with no access to its code or accounts. Same method for every product, and no AI decides the score. Last checked 2026-09-26.

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