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- paidsonatype nexus repository cloud (hosted)
Storageidentity email?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- fails: quotaMaven Central (Sonatype Central Portal / Central Publisher)
Storagefree tieridentity email?card?limit per-object-capevidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- self-hosted, last resortSonatype Nexus Repository — Community Edition (self-hosted)
Storageverdict qualifies-with-caveatfree tieridentity anonymous?card?evidence reportedstale on 2026-11-05
- Free allowance
- Hosted Nexus is a paid, sales-led deployment: 'Contact the Sonatype sales team for the right deployment option'.
- Verdict
- paidno free allowance; listed for its price
- Cost
- no price stated
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported1 source; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | Hosted Nexus is a paid, sales-led deployment: 'Contact the Sonatype sales team for the right deployment option'. No free hosted tier exists — only the self-hosted Community Edition is free. unit none; metered on none |
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| Price | none stated |
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
| Egress | not recorded |
| Interface | unknown |
| Tooling | not recorded |
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Evidence 1
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-21 | help.sonatype.com/en/sonatype-cloud.html | the text of Free tier, above |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "paid","why": "Hosted Nexus is a paid, sales-led deployment: 'Contact the Sonatype sales team for the right deployment option'. No free hosted tier exists — only the self-hosted Community Edition is free.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 7
- chaining: no value was recorded for this field
- egress terms: no value was recorded for this field
- interface: the access interface was not established
- per object cap notes: no value was recorded for this field
- per object cap stated: no value was recorded for this field
- retention stated: no value was recorded for this field
- tooling: no value was recorded for this field
- Free allowance
- No total storage quota, but as of 2026 a monthly publishing quota per organization on three metrics, with thresholds set at the ~90th percentile: 1,167 files / 78 MB release size / 7 releases per month at p90, rising to 17,724 / 1,808 MB / 50 at p99.
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- email?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- per-object-cap1 GB per upload
- Evidence
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | No total storage quota, but as of 2026 a monthly publishing quota per organization on three metrics, with thresholds set at the ~90th percentile: 1,167 files / 78 MB release size / 7 releases per month at p90, rising to 17,724 / 1,808 MB / 50 at p99. The 1 GB archive upload limit is the per-request cap. Commercial-nature artefacts require the paid Publisher Pro tier from Oct 1 2026 regardless of volume. unit objects; metered on stored-bytes |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
1 GB per upload archive. Monthly per-org: file count, total release size, release count (see table). 30-day grace period on breach, then new releases refused. Signed artefacts only; namespace ownership must be proven. Published artefacts remain downloadable forever ('Already-published artifacts are never affected'). |
| Identity | email (placeholder) not published |
| Egress | Free and unmetered, Cloudflare-fronted. Probe: repo1.maven.org jar GET -> 200, Server: cloudflare, CF-RAY present, no auth. |
| Per-object cap | 1 GB per upload (1000000000 bytes) |
| Retention | 30-day grace period on breach, then new releases refused (30 days) |
| Interface | rest, rclone rest |
| Tooling | Upload via Central Portal archive upload (zip/tar.gz up to 1 GB following Maven repo layout) or the maven-deploy-plugin; download via plain GET on repo1.maven.org/maven2/<group>/<artifact>/<version>/<file>. Every Java build tool is a client. No rclone backend. |
| Composes with | Weakest chain in the field because the new quota is per organization per month: 78 MB/month at the p90 threshold means a new org yields ~78 MB/month of headroom. Unlimited free orgs would multiply it, but each org requires a verified namespace and a GPG-signed artefact chain, so the setup cost per GB is the worst here. |
| Reliability | Data never vanishes (already-published artefacts are explicitly exempt from any enforcement). The failure mode is publishing stopping after the grace period — a bulk writer will hit the release-size threshold in the first month and be blocked. This quota regime is new (2026) and the page says thresholds 'may be adjusted as we learn'. |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-21 | central.sonatype.org/publish/maven-central-publishing-limits | monthly thresholds table ('90th | 1,167 | 78 | 7' ... '99th | 17,724 | 1,808 | 50'); 'These limits are evaluated as hard thresholds against an organization's usage during the current calendar month'; 'Commercial-nature artifacts require Maven Central Publisher Pro from October 1, 2026' |
| 2026-10-21 | central.sonatype.org/publish/publish-portal-upload/ | 'You can upload an archive up to 1GB in size' |
| 2026-10-21 | repo1.maven.org/maven2/org/apache/commons/commons-lang3/3.14 | probe: GET -> 200, Content-Length: 657952, Server: cloudflare |
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "No total storage quota, but as of 2026 a monthly publishing quota per organization on three metrics, with thresholds set at the ~90th percentile: 1,167 files / 78 MB release size / 7 releases per month at p90, rising to 17,724 / 1,808 MB / 50 at p99. The 1 GB archive upload limit is the per-request cap. Commercial-nature artefacts require the paid Publisher Pro tier from Oct 1 2026 regardless of volume.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 2
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- Free allowance
- Free, self-hosted, no storage quota: 'There is no cost to use Sonatype Nexus Repository Community Edition'; the feature matrix marks 'Unlimited Nexus Repository Deployments' as included.
- Verdict
- self-hosted, last resortverdict qualifies-with-caveat: usable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path. Self-hosted options are listed last, because this site is for users who have no hardware.
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- anonymous?placeholder, not evidence; card unknown, phone unknown
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported3 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | Free, self-hosted, no storage quota: 'There is no cost to use Sonatype Nexus Repository Community Edition'; the feature matrix marks 'Unlimited Nexus Repository Deployments' as included. Storage is your blob store, so the ceiling is your disk. unit unlimited; metered on stored-bytes |
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| Price | none stated |
| Identity | anonymous (inferred, not read) not published |
| Egress | Free by construction (self-hosted). Serve through Cloudflare or your own CDN at your own cost. |
| Per-object cap | not stated |
| Retention | not stated |
| Interface | rest, webdav rest (Nexus REST API v1), native protocols for maven/npm/pypi/nuget/docker/raw/helm/apt/yum, WebDAV-ish raw repos |
| Tooling | curl -u against /service/rest/v1/components, mvn deploy, npm publish, twine upload, docker push; a well-documented REST API for scripting. |
| Composes with | Same as any self-hosted manager: unlimited instances × your disk. The version that matters for this brief is that nothing in Nexus meters bytes, so a single instance on a cheap VPS with a big volume gives unbounded logical storage — but you buy the volume. |
| Reliability | Mature and stable; the only 'limit' is a licensing/positioning nudge, not a technical cut-off. Data does not vanish. |
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Evidence 3
| date | source | what it proved |
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| 2026-10-21 | www.sonatype.com/products/sonatype-nexus-oss-download | read live: 'There is no cost to use Sonatype Nexus Repository Community Edition. You can get started for free, no credit card is required'; 'designed to be a small team solution that can be used for free with modest usage' |
| 2026-10-21 | help.sonatype.com/en/nexus-repository-feature-matrix.html | read live: 'Unlimited Nexus Repository Deployments' ticked for Community Edition; 'Cloud Blob Storage (AWS S3, Azure, GCS)' is Pro-only |
| 2026-10-21 | help.sonatype.com/en/nexus-repository-tiers-and-feature-avai | read live: 'Nexus Repository Community Edition: Free, self-hosted artifact management' |
Unknown values 4
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- per object cap stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read