CoreOS Clair vs JFrog Xray comparison

Red Hat and JFrog are both solutions in the Container Security category. Red Hat is ranked #28 with an average rating of 9.0, while JFrog is ranked #16 with an average rating of 7.0. Red Hat holds a 0.6% mindshare in Container Security, compared to JFrog’s 4.0% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Red Hat users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 90% of JFrog users who would recommend it.

CoreOS Clair

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Sep 16, 2024

CoreOS Clair and JFrog Xray are competing products in the container security and vulnerability analysis category. CoreOS Clair seems to have the upper hand in user-friendly integration with CI/CD pipelines, while JFrog Xray stands out for its comprehensive security features despite its higher price.

Features: CoreOS Clair is praised for its effective vulnerability scanning, seamless integration with container environments, and user-friendly ease of use. JFrog Xray offers extensive security features, deep recursive scanning, compliance enforcement, and multi-layer analysis.

Room for Improvement: CoreOS Clair could enhance its reporting capabilities, expand database coverage, and improve analytics. JFrog Xray users recommend improving performance speed, better integration with third-party tools, and addressing interoperability issues.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: CoreOS Clair receives positive feedback for straightforward deployment and effective documentation. JFrog Xray is noted for responsive support and detailed setup guidance.

Pricing and ROI: CoreOS Clair is cost-effective with a good balance of features to price. JFrog Xray is more expensive, but the investment pays off due to its extensive capabilities, making it worth the higher cost for comprehensive security needs.

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CoreOS Clair vs. JFrog Xray

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Categories and Ranking

CoreOS Clair

Ranking in Container Security

28th

Average Rating

8.6

Reviews Sentiment

7.6

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

JFrog Xray

Ranking in Container Security

16th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Vulnerability Management (36th), Software Composition Analysis (SCA) (6th), Software Supply Chain Security (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2025, in the Container Security category, the mindshare of CoreOS Clair is 0.6%, up from 0.4% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of JFrog Xray is 4.0%, up from 2.6% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Container Security Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
JFrog Xray	4.0%
CoreOS Clair	0.6%
Other	95.4%

Container Security

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Felipe Giffu

Red Hat Solution Architect at Seprol Computadores e Sistemas

An operational system, similar to Linux where you can run your applications inside containers

With CoreOS, you can run your applications inside containers. For example, if you have an application that needs to run on Linux, you can create and install a container. However, it's important to note that you don't install CoreOS inside a container; CoreOS is the host operating system that manages containers. When you mentioned using Nacula as part of your CI/CD pipeline, it means your application is deployed and managed automatically through the CI/CD process. Containers are used to deploy your application within this pipeline, but CoreOS does not run inside these containers. Instead, CoreOS is the base operating system that supports and manages these containers.

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Anand Nanwana

DevOps Engineer at Syvora

Offers flexibility across clouds and easy credential management while interface improvements are needed

For JFrog Xray, the Artifactory and package repositories are valuable features. There are many benefits from JFrog Xray. For example, with other registries such as ECR, we can use the images only in the AWS cloud. With JFrog, we can use this registry from any cloud or work locally as well. JFrog can support multiple packages, such as NuGet package, pip, and other technologies. It can be used for Terraform as well. The credential management is very easy in JFrog. For instance, when using GitHub action as a CI/CD tool, I just need to create a token and set up JFrog CLI there and give access to the repository. With multiple repositories, I can generate a token for a specific repository, add that token in the GitHub secret, fetch from the CI/CD, run the command JFrog CLI, and authenticate through the token. Then we can push the images into JFrog.

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Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:

Pros

"With CoreOS, you can run your applications inside containers. For example, if you have an application that needs to run on Linux, you can create and install a container. However, it's important to note that you don't install CoreOS inside a container; CoreOS is the host operating system that manages containers."

"CoreOS Clair's best feature is detection accuracy."

"The most valuable feature of JFrog Xray is the display of the entire internal dependencies hierarchy."

"I would say that this solution has helped our organization by allowing us to automate a lot of the processes."

"JFrog Xray's reporting feature has a lot of options in it, including scanning."

"The solution is stable and reliable."

"JFrog Xray shows us a list of vulnerabilities that can impact our code."

"Good reporting functionalities."

"If multiple dependencies and vulnerabilities are found in a project, JFrog Xray is intelligent enough to tell you which vulnerability to target first."

"The most valuable features of JFrog Xray are its curation capabilities, its native integration with Artifactory, scanning for vulnerabilities, and license compliance features."

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Cons

"An area for improvement is that CoreOS Clair doesn't provide information about the location of vulnerabilities it detects."

"It can be improved in its support response. They usually take up to seven days to resolve the issue."

"The speed of JFrog Xray should improve. Other solutions have better performance."

"Lacks deeper reporting, the ability to compare things."

"Reporting is crucial, but it is lacking in the current tool. Every organization seeks specific data points rather than general information. Therefore, we require customized reports from the Xray tool."

"The out-of-the-box PostgreSQL provided is not stable, which is why we are considering enterprise support."

"Since we have been using the solution via APIs, there are some limitations in the APIs."

"JFrog Xray's documentation and error logging could be improved."

"The UI of JFrog Xray could be improved. There is a dialogue box in the Xray section that doesn't always work properly."

"I think that the user interface should be expanded to provide customers with a better dashboard for reviewing their feedback regarding their images and the vulnerabilities that are associated with the images."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"CoreOS Clair is open-source and free of charge."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Manufacturing Company

15%

Financial Services Firm

11%

Computer Software Company

11%

Performing Arts

Financial Services Firm

25%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

11%

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	1
Midsize Enterprise	3
Large Enterprise	6

Questions from the Community

What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for CoreOS Clair?

If you work with CoreOS or OpenShift, you don't need to pay for CoreOS separately. When you pay for OpenShift, you get CoreOS included, so you don't need to pay for the operating system separately....

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What needs improvement with CoreOS Clair?

It can be improved in its support response. They usually take up to seven days to resolve the issue.

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What is your primary use case for CoreOS Clair?

We use the tool to manage and secure the event file system. CoreOS Clair is an operational system that is very similar to Linux and offers benefits to other Linux operating systems. One major advan...

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What do you like most about JFrog Xray?

JFrog Xray shows us a list of vulnerabilities that can impact our code.

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What needs improvement with JFrog Xray?

I would assess the integration of JFrog Xray with CI/CD tools as the weak point. You have two means to do that: one is using the API, or the other is using the command line from JFrog. That part is...

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What is your primary use case for JFrog Xray?

For JFrog Xray product, you can use it for two main goals: compliance and security. You can use it to check if your licenses are compliant, and you can check if your dependencies you want to use ar...

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JFrog Security Essentials

Overview

Clair is an open source project for the static analysis of vulnerabilities in appc and docker containers.

Vulnerability data is continuously imported from a known set of sources and correlated with the indexed contents of container images in order to produce lists of vulnerabilities that threaten a container. When vulnerability data changes upstream, the previous state and new state of the vulnerability along with the images they affect can be sent via webhook to a configured endpoint. All major components can be customized programmatically at compile-time without forking the project.

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JFrog is on a mission to enable continuous updates through Liquid Software, empowering developers to code high-quality applications that securely flow to end-users with zero downtime. The world’s top brands such as Amazon, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Uber, VMware, and Spotify are among the 4500 companies that already depend on JFrog to manage binaries for their mission-critical applications. JFrog is a privately-held, global company, and is a proud sponsor of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation [CNCF].

If you are a team player and you care and you play to WIN, we have just the job you're looking for.

As we say at JFrog: "Once You Leap Forward You Won't Go Back!"

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Sample Customers

eBay, Veritas, Verizon, SalesForce

google, amazon, cisco, netflix, oracle, vmware, facebook

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