Package Security
Without the $48K Commitment
JFrog's package firewall is buried inside a $48,000+/year enterprise platform that takes months to deploy. Hextrap is a purpose-built package firewall your team can activate in 5 minutes — no migration, no sales calls, no lock-in.
How They Compare
Side-by-side on the things that actually matter to your team
Hextrap
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JFrog Curation
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| Pricing | ||
| Starting price | Free | $48,000+/year |
| Team plan | $49/month | Not available below Enterprise tier |
| Billing model | Flat monthly rate | Storage + egress combined (bills run 3–5× advertised rate) |
| Available to SMBs | ✓ Yes | ✗ No — Enterprise+ only |
| Setup & Migration | ||
| Time to first protection | 5 minutes | Weeks to months |
| Requires platform migration | ✓ None — 1-line config change | ✗ Must migrate all artifacts to Artifactory |
| Requires sales call to start | ✓ Self-serve | ✗ Yes — Enterprise procurement required |
| Works with existing registries | ✓ Any registry, unchanged | ✗ Replaces registries with Artifactory |
| CI/CD integration | ✓ Credential swap, no pipeline changes | Requires reconfiguring all pipelines to Artifactory URLs |
| Protection & Detection | ||
| Typosquat detection | ✓ Real-time fuzzy matching | ✓ Yes, with lag |
| New package quarantine (Soak Time) | ✓ Configurable 1–30 day buffer | ✗ Not available |
| Detection review lag | Real-time | 1–2 day manual review queue |
| AI agent protection (MCP) | ✓ Native — governs Claude, Copilot, and others | ✗ No concept of agent-level provenance |
| Coordinated attack detection | ✓ Burst publishing detection | ✗ Not specifically marketed |
| Support | ||
| Support response time | <1 hour (paid plans) | 4–7 days documented, even at $125K/year |
| Self-serve onboarding | ✓ Full docs, no hand-holding required | ✗ Requires professional services engagement |
Why Teams Are Leaving JFrog Behind
JFrog wasn't built to be a package firewall. It's a binary artifact repository that bolted security on as an afterthought.
You're buying a $48K platform to get a firewall
JFrog Curation — the feature that actually blocks malicious packages — is locked inside their Enterprise X and Enterprise+ tiers. The base cost: $48,000+ per year, before storage, before egress, before professional services. Most teams see real bills run 3–5× the advertised rate once consumption charges kick in.
Hextrap starts free. Your first firewall costs nothing. Protecting a team of 10 costs $49/month flat.
You have to move everything into JFrog first
Before JFrog Curation can protect you, you have to migrate your entire artifact pipeline into Artifactory. That means months of work: re-pointing every developer, every CI/CD job, every build script to new Artifactory URLs. You're not buying a firewall — you're buying a migration project.
Hextrap is a transparent proxy. Change one line in your pip, npm, or Go config. Done. No infra changes, no pipeline rewrites.
Detection lags, and support is slow
JFrog's curation pipeline involves manual review queues with 1–2 day lags. New packages sit "pending review" — that's exactly the window attackers exploit. Meanwhile, support response times of 4–7 days have been documented even on six-figure contracts.
Hextrap's Soak Time feature puts every new package through a configurable quarantine window — blocking zero-day campaigns before they even reach your reviewers. Real-time, not retroactive.
Which Team Are You?
The right answer depends on your situation. Here's how to think about it.
"JFrog requires a $48,000/year platform commitment before you can even turn on a package firewall. Hextrap gives you the same protection for $49/month, in 5 minutes, with any registry you already use."Start Free Trial
"JFrog knows about packages that are already in your Artifactory. Hextrap intercepts packages before any system ever touches them — and it's the only tool that governs what your AI coding assistants are allowed to install."See How It Works
"Every AI agent that writes code is also installing dependencies. Hextrap is the only package firewall with native MCP integration — giving you visibility and control over what Claude, Copilot, or any AI agent installs on your behalf."See MCP Integration
"Hextrap automatically generates an audit trail of every package install across every developer, every CI/CD pipeline, and every AI agent — giving you the visibility your next audit will demand."Compliance Overview
Switch in a Weekend. Or Don't — Just Try It.
The single biggest barrier to moving away from JFrog is the fear of a months-long migration. With Hextrap, there is no migration. Your registries stay exactly where they are. Your CI/CD pipelines stay the same. You point your package manager at Hextrap's proxy URL and swap in your credentials. That's it.
You can run Hextrap alongside JFrog during any evaluation period. They don't conflict. Try it on one team, one project, one pipeline. No commitment required until you're ready.
# Before: points to PyPI # index-url = https://pypi.org/simple/ # After: one line change [global] index-url = https://your-token@pypi.hextrap.com/your-firewall/simple/
# Before: points to npm registry # registry=https://registry.npmjs.org/ # After: one line change registry=https://npm.hextrap.com/your-firewall/ //npm.hextrap.com/your-firewall/:_authToken=your-token
# Before: default Go proxy # GOPROXY=https://proxy.golang.org # After: one env var export GOPROXY=https://your-token@go.hextrap.com/your-firewall
# Before: default registry # no explicit config needed # After: add to bunfig.toml [install] registry = "https://npm.hextrap.com/your-firewall/" [install.scopes] "" = { token = "your-token" }
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