
Cloudsmith
Artifactory
CloudRepo
Gemfury
Sonatype Nexus Repository
jFrog
fpm
Free hosted Node.js, Debian, RPM, Java, Python and RubyGem repositories. Chef, Puppet, Jenkins, Buildkite, CircleCI and Travis CI integrations.

Coassemble
Trainn.co
Build courses by API, drop them into your product with one iframe, and get told who finished. No portal, no learner accounts, priced per course view.

Which is more popular?
Based on our record, packagecloud seems to be more popular. It has been mentioned 5 times since March 2021.
Website, pricing, platforms and company facts side by side.
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| Website | packagecloud.io | underlayerhq.com |
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| Company | 2016 | Startup from the United Arab Emirates · 1 - 9 employees · 2026 |
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In their own words, as submitted to SaaSHub.


Packagecloud is a cloud-based package repository that allows its users to host npm, python, rubygem, apt, Java/Maven, and yum repositories without having to configure anything first. Being a cloud-based solution, it also allows one to distribute various software packages in a uniform, scalable,...
Underlayer is headless, API-first training for SaaS products. Instead of sending your users to a separate LMS portal, you generate a course, embed it where they already work, and get every completion sent back to your own systems. How it works Create a course. Generate one from a doc or a prompt...
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As answered by people managing packagecloud and Underlayer.
Underlayer's answer:
it's pre-launching
Underlayer's answer:
Underlayer is training with no portal. You build a course by API, by MCP, or in the visual builder, and add it to your product with one iframe. Then signed webhooks tell your systems who finished. Learners never create an account or leave your app, and the player uses your theme, so it looks like part of your product. We charge per course view, not per seat, and every price and overage rate is published.
Underlayer's answer:
Most course tools, like Coassemble, Trainn and LearningStudioAI, assume training happens on their own site: learners sign up, log in and get enrolled, and you pay per seat. Underlayer takes the opposite approach:
No learner accounts. You pass in your own user IDs and we track progress against them. Built for developers. A full REST API covers every resource, and an MCP server lets AI agents create and edit courses. Results in your own tools. Signed webhooks send completions to your CRM, your product or your data warehouse. SCORM 1.2 and 2004 export for customers who still need to load courses into an LMS. Public pricing. Plans start at $149/month for 25,000 course views, with unlimited learners and no sales call required.
Underlayer's answer:
SaaS product, customer success and engineering teams who want onboarding, product education or compliance training inside their own app. It also suits platforms that train other people's users, like partner networks, marketplaces and field-ops tools, where a separate LMS login gets in the way.
Underlayer's answer:
Every company putting training in front of its users hit the same wall: the LMS wanted to own the learner. That meant a separate portal, a second login and a per-seat bill for people who never opened a course. We built Underlayer as the layer underneath instead. You keep the product and the user relationship. We handle building the course, playing it and tracking progress, and we stay out of the way.
Underlayer's answer:
Next.js 16 (App Router) with React 19 and TypeScript, Tailwind CSS v4, and Supabase (Postgres with row-level security, Auth and Storage). Claude from Anthropic generates courses with AI. Stripe handles billing and Resend sends email. There is also a remote MCP server with OAuth 2.1 for AI-agent access.
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External articles and on-site reviews we used to compare the two products.


Packagecloud is a cloud-based package repository that allows its users to host npm, python, rubygem, apt, Java/Maven, and yum repositories without having to configure anything first. Being a cloud-based solution, it...
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Recommendations tracked on public social media and blogs since March 2021.


Looks like the repository on packagecloud.io don't have the latest version yet, it only lists 0.0.23? I got 0.0.24 from somewhere though. Source: almost 4 years ago
Forcing the config can be don manually by modifying the config files that points to different repos in /etc/apt/sources.list.d, or for packages on packagecloud.io, you can use the method that I describe. The latter works because... Source: about 4 years ago
The error you are seeing is because you probably ran one of the steps that creates a configuration in your system that points to packagecloud.io, so that your system can retrieve packages from https://packagecloud.io/cs50/repo. However... Source: about 4 years ago
Tracking Underlayer since Sep 2026.
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