Artifex vs Artifact Registry
Maven hosting without the enterprise price tag. At 250 GB and 1 million requests a month, a year costs $99 on CodeSoh Artifex Pro and $1,618 on Google Cloud Artifact Registry.
| Artifex | Artifact Registry | |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Cloud | Cloud |
| Free plan | 5 GB | 0.5 GiB |
| Paid plans from | $19/year | $0.10/GiB-month |
| Data transfer | Free | Egress billed |
| Seat fees | None | None |
| Maven Central proxy | ||
| Public repositories | Through IAM | |
| Custom domains | Plus and Pro | |
| Package formats | Maven | Containers, Maven, more |
What a year costs
At 250 GB of storage and 1 million requests a month
- Google Cloud Artifact Registry1$1,618
- Artifex Pro$99
List prices published September 26, 2026, in US dollars, before tax. Transfer is priced as leaving the provider's network. 1 us-central1.
Switch from Artifact Registry
Add Artifact Registry as an upstream
https://LOCATION-maven.pkg.dev/PROJECT/REPOSITORYSign in with _json_key_base64 and a service account key. Your existing packages resolve through Artifex.
Point your builds at Artifex
One build at a time, while the rest keep using Artifact Registry.
Remove the upstream
Artifex keeps every file that your builds fetched through it.
Or let a coding agent do it with the Set up with AI prompt.
Questions
Does Artifex need a plugin in the build?
Give your next build a repository
Create a free repositoryFacts about Google Artifact Registry come from its documentation and prices, read October 24, 2026:
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