They are paying for a platform built for many artifact types when they mainly need private PyPI, npm, and Maven.
Migrate from JFrog Artifactory to Ravenstash
Artifactory is a powerful universal artifact platform. Ravenstash is a lighter hosted path when the job is private Python, JavaScript, and JVM packages.
Last reviewed: 2026-07-05
When teams start looking beyond JFrog Artifactory
Teams that do not need a universal artifact platform and want managed private package repositories for Python, Node, and JVM work.
They want a hosted registry that developers can understand quickly without platform administration overhead.
They want package usage, storage, tokens, and upstream cache visibility centered in one simpler product.
Compare storage, delivery, and overages together
JFrog's public pricing page presents SaaS Pro at $150/month, Enterprise X starting at $950/month, and Enterprise+ as custom pricing. Ravenstash's pricing direction is intentionally narrower and focused on storage and package delivery for supported registries.
These are pricing directions Ravenstash is testing, not launched paid plans. Billing, checkout, quotas, and enforcement are still being finalized.
Starter
$19/mo
small teams and serious individual projects
- Storage
- 50 GB storage
- Delivery
- 500 GB package delivery
Team
$49/mo
product teams with active CI
- Storage
- 250 GB storage
- Delivery
- 2 TB package delivery
Growth
$99/mo
platform teams with many private packages
- Storage
- 1 TB storage
- Delivery
- 5 TB package delivery
Business
$249/mo
CI-heavy organizations
- Storage
- 3 TB storage
- Delivery
- 20 TB package delivery
Most of the work is package-manager configuration
- Repository paths and package-client URLs move from Artifactory to Ravenstash.
- Complex repository layouts can be simplified into team-owned Ravenstash repositories.
- Security-platform features should be handled separately until Ravenstash vulnerability scanning arrives later.
JFrog Artifactory can still be the right answer
Artifactory may remain the better fit for many package formats, advanced enterprise governance, distribution, and security-platform workflows.
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How to move from JFrog Artifactory
Start with one package ecosystem, validate publish and install paths, then move the remaining repositories with the same pattern.
- 1Identify the Artifactory repositories that are truly PyPI, npm, or Maven production paths.
- 2Separate internal packages from proxy/cache repositories before migration.
- 3Create Ravenstash repositories and tokens by team or release boundary.
- 4Update CI and developer package-manager configuration one ecosystem at a time.
- 5Keep old Artifactory URLs read-only during a short validation window.
Test Ravenstash with one private package.
Create a repository, publish one package, update one install job, and compare the developer experience before moving the rest.
