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PRIVATE REGISTRY COMPARISON
Verdaccio is a free, MIT-licensed Node.js registry that you operate yourself. It hosts private npm packages and proxies public registries. PrivateNPM provides managed npm, PyPI and Files hosting with recipient package grants.
Reviewed by the PrivateNPM team. This is a vendor comparison; official sources and assumptions are linked below.
THE DECISION
Verdaccio is an excellent candidate for local development, package testing and teams that want control of their registry infrastructure. A managed service is worth evaluating when running that infrastructure is not part of the work you want your team to own.
You want a hosted registry and customer access workflow, and prefer a subscription to operating storage, TLS, backups, upgrades and monitoring. You need to accept a hosted service's formats, plan limits and service dependency.
You need a lightweight registry for development, isolated tests or an environment your team controls. You can operate it, and its open-source server and plugin model fit your requirements.
CAPABILITIES AND TRADEOFFS
| Requirement | PrivateNPM | Verdaccio |
|---|---|---|
| Deployment | Hosted service operated by PrivateNPM. | Open-source Node.js registry operated by you. |
| Private packages and cache | Private npm hosting; public npm caching starts on Growth. | Private npm packages and configurable upstream proxying/caching. |
| Customization | Product settings, supported integrations and APIs. | Server configuration, source code and plugins under your control. |
| Customer delivery | Recipient portal and separate package-scoped download keys. | Evaluate configured access rules and plugins against your recipient workflow. |
PrivateNPM features Plan limits and pricing Competitor documentation
ESTIMATE YOUR MONTH
Enter decimal GB (1 TB = 1,000 GB), human publisher seats and hosted packages across formats. Amounts are USD per month before tax. Customers using download keys are not publisher seats.
PrivateNPM estimates use the published monthly billing catalog, whole GB of excess transfer and the default overage cap of one monthly plan price. The first overage month is waived; these are ongoing-month examples. Annual billing, trial rules and a changed spend cap affect the bill. Registry count, download-key count and other feature requirements are not modeled: check all plan limits.
WORKED EXAMPLES
For an internal registry, write down who restores a backup, patches the host and handles a failed build during an outage. For a local integration-test registry, assess startup speed and isolation instead. These are different jobs, and a customer-distribution service is not automatically the better choice for either.
These are illustrative monthly workloads, not customer results or vendor benchmarks. Each PrivateNPM estimate selects the lowest-priced plan eligible for the shown storage, seat and package counts. Other plan limits still apply.
10 GB stored · 100 GB downloaded · 5 seats · 20 packages.
PrivateNPM: $29/month. Growth · monthly billing, default overage cap
Verdaccio: evaluate this workload using the provider's pricing model and your additional requirements. No competitor bill is estimated.
100 GB stored · 1500 GB downloaded · 15 seats · 150 packages.
PrivateNPM: $198/month. Scale · monthly billing, default overage cap
Verdaccio: evaluate this workload using the provider's pricing model and your additional requirements. No competitor bill is estimated.
500 GB stored · 5000 GB downloaded · 30 seats · 500 packages.
PrivateNPM: $499/month. Platform · monthly billing, default overage cap
Verdaccio: evaluate this workload using the provider's pricing model and your additional requirements. No competitor bill is estimated.
MIGRATION CHECKLIST
Start with one package and one consumer. Keep the existing service available until you have verified publishing, allowed installs, denied access and rollback. Package bytes can be copied; identities, permissions and audit history require separate planning.
Use a publisher key to publish, then a read-only download key in a clean consumer project. Confirm that an allowed package installs, an ungranted package is denied and revocation blocks new downloads after the authorization cache expires. Already downloaded content cannot be revoked from a customer's disk.
Follow the publish-and-install quickstart, then configure the registry route and host-specific credential. For CI, use the trusted publishing guide. These are PrivateNPM walkthroughs; the checklist above is a migration plan, not a claim that every provider has been tested end to end.
Preserve an inventory of required versions, integrity values and dist-tags. Use package-manager commands to update lockfiles and inspect resolved URLs. Do not delete the source packages or revoke the old credentials until consumers have switched and you can restore the previous configuration.
The software is free and MIT-licensed. The infrastructure and operational effort depend on how you run it. A local test instance and a production registry have different cost and availability requirements.
No. Verdaccio is particularly useful for local registries, isolated tests and infrastructure customization. Evaluate a hosted service separately for team hosting and customer delivery.
Reviewed 30 October 2026 by the PrivateNPM team using the official pages below. Pricing can change; confirm current terms before buying. This is a documentation-based comparison, not an independent performance benchmark or a hands-on test of every vendor.
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