NuGetKeep vs Azure Artifacts

Both host NuGet packages. Here is how each one is actually priced and run.

Azure Artifacts is a genuinely good choice if you're already on Azure DevOps: it's built into the pipelines you're already running, there's nothing to host, back up, or upgrade, and it's free for a small team — up to 5 users and 2 GiB of storage. For that team, Azure Artifacts is the right answer, and this page isn't trying to argue otherwise. What changes as a team grows is the model: Azure DevOps Basic bills per user past the first five, so the platform's cost scales with headcount. NuGetKeep's Community edition — the private feed itself — is free and self-hosted with no seat cap at any size; Team and Enterprise add paid capabilities on top, at a flat annual rate, running on a server you control — including fully air-gapped.

Capability	Azure Artifacts	NuGetKeep
Billing model	Azure Artifacts itself bills for storage: 2 GiB free per organization, then a declining per-GiB rate (from $2/GiB down to $0.25/GiB at high volume). The per-seat cost belongs to Azure DevOps Basic, the platform that hosts it — the first 5 users are free, then each additional user is billed per user, per month. Verify source (checked 2026-07-29) →	NuGetKeep's Community edition — the private feed itself — is free and self-hosted, with no seat cap at any size. Team (€1,090/year) and Enterprise (€2,990/year) add paid capabilities at a flat annual rate, both excl. VAT, with no per-seat charge. Storage is whatever disk the server has; it isn't metered or billed separately. Verify source (checked 2026-07-29) →
Hosting	Azure DevOps Services (which includes Artifacts) is Microsoft's cloud-hosted offering — no infrastructure to set up, and features and security updates roll out automatically. The on-premises product, Azure DevOps Server, is sold and administered separately. Verify source (checked 2026-07-29) →	NuGetKeep is designed to run fully air-gapped, on your own server: the license key is an ECDSA-signed JWT validated against a public key embedded in the binary, with no network call and no phone-home, ever. Verify source (checked 2026-07-29) →
Supply-chain quarantine	Not provided	Every pushed package is scanned for known vulnerabilities via OSV; a version whose findings meet the configured severity threshold is quarantined — held back from search and restore — until an admin reviews it. Verify source (checked 2026-07-29) →
Feed isolation	Azure Artifacts supports multiple feeds per project or organization, each with its own role-based permissions — Feed Reader, Feed and Upstream Reader (Collaborator), Feed Publisher (Contributor), or Feed Owner. Verify source (checked 2026-07-29) →	Multiple isolated feeds, each with its own access control and v3 index — one feed per team, product, or environment without standing up separate servers. Verify source (checked 2026-07-29) →

Every claim above about a third-party project links to the primary source it was checked against, and the date it was checked. Nothing here is asserted without one.

When your team outgrows the free tier

Community is free to self-host, with no seat cap and no metered storage. Team adds the supply-chain quarantine; Enterprise adds multiple isolated feeds.

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