JFrog Artifactory vs Kosli

JFrog Artifactory manages binaries, packages, containers, releases, AI/ML models, and agent assets as a system of record. It supports more than 40 software build package types, including Docker, Maven, and Gradle, and can serve as a Docker and Kubernetes registry for containers and Helm charts. CLI and REST APIs, Open API specifications, and Artifactory Query Language support automation and searches. Artifactory can run as SaaS or self-managed software, with installation options including Helm, Docker, RPM, Debian, Linux archive, and Windows archive. Integrations include GitHub, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Terraform, and Slack, among others. Storage options include S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure Blob Storage, and Filestore Sharding; active/active high availability includes live failover and non-disruptive production upgrades. Security controls include granular permissions and external authentication such as LDAP or SAML. The free self-managed Container Registry edition is limited to Docker, OCI, Helm, Helm OCI, and Generic workflows. A 14-day trial is available without a credit card. Pro costs $50 a month, with consumption-based pricing beyond the 25 GB base; self-managed plans start at $27,000 a year.

Kosli is a change-recording and compliance-monitoring platform for tracking software and business-process changes. It centralizes attestations, software bills of materials, scans, and build metadata, then links that evidence to a real-time production view. Cryptographic provenance and fingerprints create a tamper-evident chain from commit to production. Policy-as-code controls, automated evidence collection, and notifications address deviations, while runtime monitoring can identify artifacts with unknown provenance and provide time-machine forensics for environment changes. Kosli lists integrations including GitHub, Bitbucket, GitLab, CircleCI, Jenkins, Microsoft Azure, TeamCity, Terraform, Ansible, Datadog, New Relic, Jira, ServiceNow, Slack, and Email. It supports SaaS, single-tenant AWS hosting, and on-premises Enterprise deployment. The platform runs through API, Linux, macOS, self-hosted, web, and Windows. Pricing is available on request.