JFrog Xray vs Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks comparison

JFrog and Palo Alto Networks are both solutions in the Container Security category. JFrog is ranked #14 with an average rating of 7.0, while Palo Alto Networks is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.5. JFrog holds a 3.8% mindshare in Container Security, compared to Palo Alto Networks’s 9.0% mindshare. Additionally, 90% of JFrog users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 98% of Palo Alto Networks users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 26, 2025

Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks and JFrog Xray are competing products in the cloud security and artifact scanning category, offering distinct advantages. Prisma Cloud offers robust security features, making it favorable for comprehensive cloud protection. In contrast, JFrog Xray is preferred for organizations focusing on DevOps practices due to its superior artifact scanning capabilities.

Features: Prisma Cloud provides comprehensive cloud security with features like threat detection, compliance monitoring, and real-time alerts. It excels in protecting multi- and hybrid-cloud environments, offering cloud workload protection and security posture management. JFrog Xray is known for its deep artifact analysis and scanning, supporting integration in the software development lifecycle with tools like Artifactory, providing a holistic approach to identifying vulnerabilities in dependencies, and license compliance checks.

Room for Improvement: Prisma Cloud could enhance its ease of integration with DevOps tools and improve container security monitoring. The interface could be more user-friendly, and real-time updates for new threats could be faster. JFrog Xray might benefit from expanding its scanning capabilities to cover more environments, improving user interface complexity, and offering more detailed reports on vulnerabilities and compliance issues.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: Prisma Cloud integrates seamlessly with various cloud platforms, providing strong support for troubleshooting and onboarding. Its deployment process caters well to enterprises needing comprehensive cloud protection. JFrog Xray offers straightforward integration within DevOps environments, with effective customer service for technical queries, ensuring quick setup and efficient operation.

Pricing and ROI: Prisma Cloud, with its higher setup cost, offers substantial returns for organizations needing extensive cloud security. The cost may be prohibitive for smaller businesses. JFrog Xray, in contrast, provides a more cost-effective solution, advantageous for startups and mid-sized enterprises focused on development efficiency. While Prisma Cloud's extensive features appeal to larger enterprises, JFrog Xray's cost-benefit ratio makes it attractive for smaller companies.

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JFrog Xray vs. Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks

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Review summaries and opinions

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

ROI

Sentiment score

3.5

JFrog Xray improved efficiency, security, and compliance, reduced downtime, and sped up release cycles with enhanced vulnerability detection and reporting.

Sentiment score

7.0

Prisma Cloud enhances security, saves time, improves compliance, and reduces costs, although exact financial benefits are hard to quantify.

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It eliminates the need for additional hardware, making it a financially and technically sound investment.

Altug Yildirim

Partner at Quasys

Reputation and data security are the two most important things to a financial institution.

Pushpak S Laddha

Works at a comms service provider with 1-10 employees

We may have prevented a security breach with remediation of the findings.

Mindaugas Dailidonis

Security Solutions Architect - Cloud Security Consultant at a consultancy with 10,001+ employees

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Customer Service

Sentiment score

4.0

JFrog Xray's customer service is generally well-received, with positive technical support, though not all users engage directly.

Sentiment score

7.0

Prisma Cloud's customer service is praised for expertise but criticized for inconsistent response times and regional support variations.

When we need clarifications, we contact our account manager, and they arrange demos.

Vinod Bhupathiraju

Development Senior at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

On a scale of 1 to 10, I would rate the technical support of JFrog Xray an eight because they are very knowledgeable.

reviewer2757060

DevSecOps Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

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They can respond with technical documentation or pass on the case to the next level because it requires the development of a new feature or changing a feature due to a bug.

Breider Alexander Santacruz

Technical Lead at a consultancy with 11-50 employees

Anywhere we raise a tech case, they revert back within an hour.

Mohammed Talib Khan

Cloud Security Engineer at a tech vendor with 201-500 employees

I would rate them a nine out of ten because whenever there are issues, they are able to resolve them within the timelines and SLAs.

reviewer2492670

Senior IT infrastructure consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

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Scalability Issues

Sentiment score

6.8

JFrog Xray is scalable and suitable for multiple applications, despite PostgreSQL limitations and some performance challenges.

Sentiment score

7.6

Prisma Cloud offers scalable solutions, efficiently managing deployments, despite occasional operational complexities and licensing influences on scalability perception.

According to my use case, it is highly scalable.

Anand Nanwana

DevOps Engineer at Syvora

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Scalability-wise, I rate the solution a nine out of ten.

Akshay Karoo

Technology Specialist - Cloud Security at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

We haven't had any issues scaling the solution.

Sairaj Rsanil

Senior Cloud Security Engineer at impelsys

There aren't any limits to Prisma Cloud's scalability.

Mohammad Qaw

Senior Security Consultant at helpag

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Stability Issues

Sentiment score

7.6

JFrog Xray is praised for stability and security, compared favorably to competitors, with minor concerns about PostgreSQL support.

Sentiment score

8.0

Prisma Cloud is praised for high stability, though minor disruptions and data retrieval challenges occur in complex environments.

I use JFrog Xray primarily for security purposes, and I find it reliable.

Anand Nanwana

DevOps Engineer at Syvora

We did experience crashes, downtimes, and performance issues with JFrog Xray.

reviewer2757060

DevSecOps Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

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I would rate it a ten out of ten for stability.

reviewer2559921

Cloud Security Engineer (Team lead) at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

Most of the time, when the client requires data, it is not available.

Akshay Karoo

Technology Specialist - Cloud Security at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The cloud environment is dynamic, so the tool must be dynamic.

VISHWJEET GAIKWAD

Cloud Security Delivery Associate Manager at Accenture

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Room For Improvement

Users demand better reporting, documentation, UI, site performance, API limits, custom reports, vulnerability management, and integration support.

Prisma Cloud requires enhanced documentation, user interface, automation, integration features, pricing, support, updates, and improved access and monitoring.

When we have given a very long tag, it doesn't work as expected and requires excessive scrolling.

Anand Nanwana

DevOps Engineer at Syvora

somehow you need to adapt your GitLab pipeline and turn them into JFrog pipeline, and this is something they don't really advertise at first—you're obliged to use the JFrog CLI.

reviewer2757060

DevSecOps Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

X-ray needs improvement in supporting more than one database, as it currently only supports PostgreSQL.

Vinod Bhupathiraju

Development Senior at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

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Prisma Cloud is an excellent tool.

reviewer2540838

Technical Engineer at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

We could have deployed the runtime monitoring with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, but within our organization at our company, it was very difficult to find who would be the owner for the alerts.

reviewer2776578

Cyber Security Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Even though documentation was available, it took a while for a new person to understand what integration meant, what will be achieved after the integration, or how the integration needed to be done on the Azure or AWS side.

HemantMahajan

Technical Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

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Setup Cost

Prisma Cloud offers comprehensive features and robust security but presents challenges with its complex and potentially expensive licensing model.

JFrog Xray provides a free trial of 14 days.

Anand Nanwana

DevOps Engineer at Syvora

The basic scanning capabilities come with Artifactory, however, curation requires additional licenses.

Vinod Bhupathiraju

Development Senior at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

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The cost was not on the higher side.

HemantMahajan

Technical Architect at a tech services company with 1,001-5,000 employees

If you are using a single tool like Prisma Cloud, with a single license, you can monitor all environments, such as Google Cloud, Azure, AWS, and Oracle Cloud.

VISHWJEET GAIKWAD

Cloud Security Delivery Associate Manager at Accenture

It is not a cheap product.

Abdelmeguid Hamdy

Technical Director at Cascade Solutions

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Valuable Features

JFrog Xray offers deep scanning, seamless integration with Artifactory, robust vulnerabilities management, flexible deployment, and attractive pricing.

Prisma Cloud enhances multi-cloud security with automated forensics, compliance monitoring, and integration in CI/CD pipelines for threat prevention.

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

Vinod Bhupathiraju

Development Senior at a financial services firm with 5,001-10,000 employees

The policy-driven approach of JFrog Xray helped me maintain security standards by integrating it in the development pipeline.

reviewer2757060

DevSecOps Engineer at a tech services company with 501-1,000 employees

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.

Anand Nanwana

DevOps Engineer at Syvora

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There is a wide range of integrations, and the compatibility with various cloud providers is very useful.

Abdelmeguid Hamdy

Technical Director at Cascade Solutions

It provides a single pane of glass.

Krishnakumar M

enterprise architect at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

If I want to check how many of my S3s have encryption, I can write a Lambda function in Prisma Cloud and get that report.

reviewer2492670

Senior IT infrastructure consultant at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

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Categories and Ranking

JFrog Xray

Ranking in Container Security

14th

Average Rating

7.8

Reviews Sentiment

6.3

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

Vulnerability Management (37th), Software Composition Analysis (SCA) (5th), Software Supply Chain Security (1st)

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Ranking in Container Security

1st

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

7.1

Number of Reviews

113

Ranking in other categories

Web Application Firewall (WAF) (8th), Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) (2nd), Cloud-Native Application Protection Platforms (CNAPP) (2nd), Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) (2nd)

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Container Security category, the mindshare of JFrog Xray is 3.8%, up from 3.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks is 9.0%, down from 14.0% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Container Security Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks	9.0%
JFrog Xray	3.8%
Other	87.2%

Container Security

Featured Reviews

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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reviewer2776578

Cyber Security Architect at a comms service provider with 10,001+ employees

Image scanning has supported consistent security practices during cloud deployment

On a scale of ten, we would say people are happy with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks for the part we use. People are okay with it. We probably would give an eight. We don't give ten because if we don't use the other parts of Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, it's because it was difficult to implement from an operational point of view. We could have deployed the runtime monitoring with Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, but within our organization at our company, it was very difficult to find who would be the owner for the alerts. People have other tools and in the end, we don't use the full capabilities of a product that we pay for. It's partially related to the difficulty to integrate Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks runtime in our company's support process. We don't use the real-time monitoring part of Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks. We don't know about the automated remediation feature of Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks.

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Financial Services Firm

25%

Manufacturing Company

12%

Computer Software Company

Government

Financial Services Firm

15%

Computer Software Company

10%

Manufacturing Company

Government

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

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

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	36
Midsize Enterprise	22
Large Enterprise	56

Questions from the Community

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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What is your primary use case for Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks?

Prisma Cloud helps support DevSecOps methodologies, making those responsibilities easier to manage.

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What Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform do you recommend?

We like Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks, since it offers us incredible visibility into our entire cloud system. We are able to easily see where our container vulnerabilities lie and and where cl...

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What do you think of Aqua Security vs Prisma Cloud?

Aqua Security is easy to use and very manageable. Its main focus is on Kubernetes and Docker. Security is a very valuable feature and their speed of integration is very good. The initial setup was ...

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Also Known As

JFrog Security Essentials

Prisma Public Cloud, RedLock Cloud 360, RedLock, Twistlock, Aporeto

Overview

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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Prisma Cloud by Palo Alto Networks provides comprehensive cloud-native security solutions. It covers dynamic workload identity, automated forensics, and multi-cloud protection, ensuring robust security across diverse cloud platforms.

Prisma Cloud delivers advanced capabilities for managing cloud security across AWS, Azure, and GCP platforms. It offers dynamic workload identity creation, real-time monitoring, and seamless integration into CI/CD pipelines. With automation, centralized dashboards, and enhanced visibility, users effectively manage security misconfigurations and vulnerabilities. While optimizing cloud environments through runtime protection and compliance, Prisma Cloud faces challenges with its navigation, pricing, and limited automation capabilities. Users seek improvements in API security, role-based access controls, and documentation quality, emphasizing the need for enhanced customization and reporting features.

What are the important features of Prisma Cloud?

Dynamic Workload Identity: Enables unique workload identities for security purposes.
Automated Forensics: Offers detailed insights into threats and incidents automatically.
Runtime Protection: Provides ongoing detection and blocking of suspicious activities.
Multi-Cloud Security: Protects environments on AWS, Azure, and GCP simultaneously.
Compliance Management: Assists in meeting regulatory standards across cloud platforms.

What benefits or ROI should users consider in reviews?

Enhanced Security Posture: Strengthens cloud defense lines with proactive monitoring.
Centralized Dashboard: Offers unified oversight of multiple cloud environments.
Efficient Misconfiguration Handling: Quickly identifies and addresses security lapses.
Seamless CI/CD Integration: Integrates security within development workflows.
Improved Visibility: Provides transparent insights into security operations and alerts.

Industries like finance and telecom rely on Prisma Cloud for managing cloud security posture and container security. Teams utilize its capabilities across hybrid and multi-cloud settings to ensure compliance and robust threat protection. Features like misconfiguration detection and runtime monitoring are critical in promoting security objectives in these sectors.

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Sample Customers

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

Amgen, Genpact, Western Asset, Zipongo, Proofpoint, NerdWallet, Axfood, 21st Century Fox, Veeva Systems, Reinsurance Group of America

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