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title: "Compare Cloudsmith vs Packagist and Switch | Cloudsmith"
description: "Compare Packagist vs Cloudsmith, and get help to switch from Packagist to fully-managed, cloud-native Cloudsmith. Start your free trial."
canonical_url: "https://cloudsmith.com/switch/packagist"
last_updated: "2024-07-10T09:52:53Z"
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# Compare Cloudsmith vs Packagist and Switch | Cloudsmith

## Stop pulling directly from risky upstreams like Packagist

## Take a step forward. Switch to secure Cloudsmith and away from risky upstreams

| With Packagist | With Cloudsmith |

| --- | --- |

| When Packaist goes down, productivity may be impacted | Caching OSS packages from public upstreams with Cloudsmith ensures that your team remains productive, even when a public repository goes down. |

| Limited ability to protect your team from bad packages | Cloudsmith protects your team from dependency confusion, namesquatting, typosquatting, denial of service, maintainer deletions, and more |

| Security scanning happens later in your workflow than is optimal | Shift left. Cloudsmith scans for malware and CVEs, and lets you build rules into how to handle low, medium and high critical software vulnerabilities |

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