Ubuntu Package Search
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Confidence: Medium
Nothing to buy: packages.ubuntu.com is Ubuntu's free public package search, not a commercial product.
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Comparison
Ubuntu Package Search lands on Skip, and Fivenines lands on Depends.
Nothing to buy: packages.ubuntu.com is Ubuntu's free public package search, not a commercial product.
Solid, affordable pick for MSPs and small ops teams wanting server, network, uptime, and cron monitoring in one place.
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| Verdict | Skip | Depends |
| Best for | Ubuntu admins checking versions per release | MSPs monitoring client infrastructure |
| Who it's not for | Anyone shopping for software . nothing here is for sale | Enterprises needing mature, audited observability platforms |
| Privacy | No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed.10 | No known public vulnerabilities found in the sources reviewed. |
| Support quality | No support evidence in sources | G2 users list customer support first. |
| Public sentiment | Reddit users treat the site as a fallback and recommend searching locally with apt instead.³ | Reddit sysadmins and DevOps users recommend Fivenines as an affordable monitoring option, but formal public reviews are nearly nonexistent. |
| Biggest gotcha | Site search has intermittently failed with 500 errors; fall back to apt search locally.³ | Savings vs New Relic come from the vendor's own comparison, model your real usage first |