InstallShield vs. Cloudsmith
A side-by-side comparison based on G2 review data.
| Metric | InstallShield | Cloudsmith |
|---|---|---|
| Overall rating | 4.2 | 4.5 |
| Review count | 22 | 45 |
| Ease of use | 8.8 | 9.0 |
| Ease of setup | 9.0 | 9.1 |
| Quality of support | 8.1 | 8.8 |
| Meets requirements | 9.1 | 9.0 |
| NPS | 50 | 71.111111 |
| Small Business | 18.2% | 38.1% |
| Mid-Market | 31.8% | 40.5% |
| Enterprise | 50.0% | 21.4% |
| Total page views | 73 | 537 |
| Total LLM citations | 139 | 3,750 |
InstallShield
Revenera InstallShield is the fastest easiest way to build Windows installers and MSIX packages and create installations directly within Microsoft Visual Studio.
Cloudsmith
Cloudsmith is the modern artifact management and software supply chain security platform. It gives engineering teams a unified control layer for every package, container, binary, and ML model moving through their software supply chain – across 30+ formats, with built-in policy enforcement and continuous security monitoring. Modern engineering teams assemble software more than they author it and AI agents pull in open source dependencies at a pace that exceeds ad hoc governance.
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