JFrog (FROG) Q2 2026 earnings call transcript

Transcript, summary, guidance, and what analysts pressed on from the JFrog Ltd. call on August 6, 2026.

Held
August 6, 2026
Length
59 min
Tone
Confident0.80
Analysts
9
Words
7,802
Cloud revenue growth Q2
53%year over year
Customers over $1M
97up from 61 a year ago
Customers over $100K
1,291up from 1,076 a year ago
Security in $1M cohort
more than 80%Q2 customers added
Security in new-logo wins
over 40%included at initial land
AI lab customers
fourincluding Q2 addition
RPO increase
84 millionrecord addition, per analyst

Summary

Management framed the quarter as evidence that AI is increasing demand for trusted software-supply-chain infrastructure, with security and cloud consumption reinforcing platform momentum.

  • Cloud usage above customer commitments remained strong and similar to Q1, but management excluded overages from outlook and emphasized converting usage into commitments.
  • Security demand was attributed to recurring supply-chain attacks, with curation gaining immediate attention as a firewall and broader products supporting downstream scanning and governance.
  • Management described DevGovOps and AI-agent governance as early-stage opportunities, while calling its model-registry expansion the beginning of a journey.

What analysts pressed on

  • 01OpenAI vulnerability response: management said it rapidly patched self-hosted customers and saw an opportunity to highlight SaaS security, but did not quantify pipeline effects.
  • 02Security demand and vulnerability-driven pull-forward: management said the pipeline was affected by attacks and remained optimistic, without quantifying pull-forward.
  • 03Cloud overages and commitment conversion: management said usage above commitments was growing but declined to split overage and committed revenue.
  • 04Security product mix: management said curation was currently in the spotlight, but did not rank or quantify contributions across products.
  • 05RPO and second-half pipeline: CFO said strength reflected larger, longer security deals and denied meaningful Q3 pull-forward.
  • 06AI-native customer opportunity: management described a fourth AI-lab win and hybrid architecture but gave no pipeline size or revenue contribution.

Notable disclosures

  • $1M80% of customers added to the over-$1 million cohort in Q2 included security, while 40% of new-logo wins included security.
  • The fourth AI-lab customer displaced a competitor that could not scale, using a cloud mothership with self-hosted Artifactory servers.
  • Management said over-commitment usage in Q2 was similar to Q1, with no decline in usage above minimum commitments.
  • Management said the OpenAI-reported vulnerability was confirmed remediated, and the cloud service was not affected.

Risks raised

  • CFO budget-control priorities could constrain cloud consumption or increase scrutiny of customer spending, though management expects customers not to block innovation.
  • AI models and agents may find increasingly sophisticated vulnerabilities; management expects more discoveries and emphasized remediation speed and customer communication.
  • Customers vary widely in AI governance maturity, with some adopting without responsibility and others proceeding cautiously.
  • Self-hosted customers required a released patch, while management acknowledged it cannot control how quickly customers apply it.

Tone: Confident 0.80

Management was strongly upbeat on cloud usage, security momentum, and enterprise execution, while acknowledging uncertain AI spending patterns and emerging security risks.

Who spoke

Company

  • Jeffrey SchreinerInvestor Relations
  • Shlomi HaimChief Executive Officer
  • Ed GrabscheidChief Financial Officer

Analysts

  • Miller JumpAnalyst, Truist
  • Howard MaAnalyst, Guggenheim
  • Brian EssexAnalyst, JPMorgan
  • Andrew ShermanAnalyst, TD Cowen
  • Sanjit SinghAnalyst, Morgan Stanley
  • Kingsley CraneAnalyst, Canaccord
  • Unidentified AnalystAnalyst, Needham
  • Matt CalitriAnalyst, Needham
  • Mark CashAnalyst, Raymond James

Full transcript

Analyst questions are marked with a bar. Timestamps are into the recording.

Prepared remarks

00:00

Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for joining us and welcome to the JFrog 2nd Quarter 2026 Financial Results Earnings Call. After today's prepared remarks, we will host a question and answer session. If you would like to ask a question, please raise your hand. If you have dialed into today's call, please press star 9 to raise your hand and star 6 to unmute. I will now hand the conference over to Jeffrey Schreiner, Head of Investor Relations. Jeffrey, please go ahead.

00:31

Jeffrey SchreinerInvestor Relations

Thank you, Nicole. Good afternoon and thank you for joining us as we review JFrog 2nd Quarter 2026 Financial Results, which were announced following the market close today via press release. Leading the call today will be JFrog CEO and co-founder Shlomi Benheim and Ed Grabshai, JFrog CFO. During this call, we may make statements relating to our business that are forward-looking under federal securities laws and may pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements related to our future financial performance and including our outlook for the third quarter and full year of 2026. The words anticipate, believe, continue, estimate, expect, intend, will, and similar expressions are intended to identify forward-looking statements or similar indications of future expectations.

Your caution not to place undue reliance on these forward-looking statements, which reflect our views only as of today and not as of any subsequent date. Please keep in mind that we are not obligating ourselves to revise or publicly release the results of any revisions to these forward-looking statements in light of new information or future events. These statements are subject to a variety of risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from expectations. For discussion on material risks and other important factors that could affect our actual results, please refer to our form 10Q for the quarter ended March 31, 2026, which is available on the investor relations section of our website. And the earnings press release issued earlier today.

Additional information will be made available in our form 10Q for the quarter ended June 30, 2026, and other filings and reports that we may file from time to time with the SEC. Additionally, non-gap financial measures will be discussed on this conference call. These non-gap financial measures, which are used as measures of JFrog's performance, should be considered in addition to, not as a substitute for, or an isolation from, gap measures. Please refer to the tables in our earnings release for a reconciliation of those measures to their most directly comparable gap financial measures. A replay of this call will be available on the JFrog investor relations website for a limited time.

With that, I'd like to turn the mic off.

03:13

Shlomi HaimChief Executive Officer

Thank you, Jeff. Good afternoon, and thank you all for joining the call. We are pleased with our second quarter results, which exceed the high end of our guidance across all metrics. Our first half 2026 achievements reflects strong execution and the clear strategic importance of JFrog in enterprise after supply chains. It is clear now that the world is moving at the speed of AI. What began as a technology shift is becoming the foundation of every business and increasingly ambient infrastructure as they build and deliver software. As AI accelerates software creation, engineering velocity, and code quality, the challenge is no longer generating source code, but managing the tsunami of binaries compiled. It is now about establishing trust in these software artifacts, models, agents, and packages that AI and human increasingly produce without sacrificing speed.

The JFrog platform is evolving for a future where AI agents become first-class citizens of the software supply chain. By extending our platform to treat AI agents as trusted participants alongside human developers, we believe JFrog is building the control plane for the next generation of software delivery. We see software engineering evolving into software supply chain engineering, not because every developer becomes a supply chain expert, but because every developer or AI agent must rely on a trusted software supply chain delivered by the organization. For this new era, our customers are reaffirming JFrog as the single source of truth, and we believe this reality is fueling the momentum we are seeing across our business. During the second quarter, JFrog's total revenue was $163.8 million representing 29% of the real goals.

Cloud revenue grew 53%, driven by increased secure binary consumption throughout the factory, reinforcing its central role as the single source of truth for software supply chains. In addition to continued strength in cloud growth, our enterprise-focused go-to-market strategy continues to deliver strong results at the high end of our customer base. Customers with annual spend exceeding $1 million go to $97 up from 61 a year ago, representing 59% year-of-year goals. Customers spending more than $100,000 annually grew to $1,291 compared to 1,076 in the prior year, an increase of 20% year-of-year. On today's call, I will walk you through the second quarter in more detail, and Ed will then follow with additional financial insights and outlook.

First, I will cover our cloud business with strong consumption trends continue to drive demand across additional and AI software artifacts. Second, I will discuss our security business. As software supply chain attacks grow in scale and sophistication, customers are looking for unified security integrated with their system of record. Last, I will discuss governance and compliance. The era of agent software development is driving the industry's next evolution, DevGoOps.

I'll start with cloud. In Q2, our cloud business continued to expand, as we supported the scaling volume of software artifacts flowing through our customers' software supply chain pipelines. As AI accelerates software development, customers are creating, storing, and distributing more binaries than before. Over the past several quarters, and even more since the beginning of the year, we have observed the following key trends driving this change in cloud consumption.

First, the rapid adoption of AI tools accelerates software development activity and increases the volume of binaries moving through our platform as agents and tools consume more software at the pace and scale no human workflow ever could.

Second, the increase in the number of AI specific software packages such as MCP, Skills, and others that organizations create and manage. Third, leading them to sometimes favor the flexibility of a consumption-based on-demand cloud model. This trends and the first half results validate our strategy and business model, continuing to reinforce the value of our cloud offering, which enables customers to scale with demand while maintaining efficiency and operational flexibility. Our enterprise sales teams remain focused on securing long-term enterprise commitments, allowing customers better unit economics in the evolving AI-spending environment. At the same time, and as always, we give customers the flexibility to determine the balance between committed capacity and on-demand usage.

Consistent with our guidance philosophy, we continue to exclude usage above committed levels from our outlook and would refer to it later on the call. Now, to the continued momentum we're seeing in security. JFOC provides the infrastructure for creating, managing, and securing software artifacts at enterprise scale. By integrating comprehensive software supply and security directly without the factory, our customers single source of truth, we enable them to build and deploy software we trust at the scale and speed of AI. As software supply chain threats continue to grow in scaling sophistication, since those teams increasingly see JFOC security as a mission-critical component of their software infrastructure, not an optional capability. Validating this fact, JFOC was recently named a leader in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for software supply chain security.

Based not only on our highest rated ability to execute, but also on our strategy of incorporating security alongside the software supply chain single source of truth in one platform.

We continue to see strong momentum in our security business reflected in higher touch rate on new customers' wings, continued expansion with existing accounts, and an increasing number of larger security led transactions. In the second quarter, more than 80% of the customers that joined our over $1 million cohort added security. This momentum extends to our new logo business where over 40% of overall new logo wins included security as part of their initial land with JFOC. In addition, AI powered software supply chain attacks continued to escalate this quarter with threat actors increasingly targeting open source package ecosystems. As AI accelerates software creation, it also accelerates the pace and sophistication of software supply chain attacks throughout this incidence customers using JFOC remain protected.

By tightly integrating curation without the factory, JFOC delivers a trusted policy-driven software supply chain firewall that blocks malicious and risky packages before they enter the enterprise, allowing developers and AI coding agents to move fast without compromising trust or security. In Q2, we will focus on making sure our security solutions become too integrated to fail, powered by the AI ecosystem. In the past, we focus on securing human developers. Today, we are extending that same trusted experience to AI agents that increasingly interact with the JFOC platform. Consistent with our universal trust layer strategy, we recently announced integrations with leading AI coding agents, including cloud code and cursor, protecting our customers, developers, and agents from vulnerable or malicious dependencies, enforcing enterprise security policies and receiving trusted remediation guidance in real time.

By embedding security directly into AI-driven development workflows, JFOC helps customers accelerate software delivery while preserving trust across the entire software supply chain.

The continued validation of our strategy by security leaders, accelerating customers' adoption, expanding platform usage, larger security-driven transactions, and our deep partnerships across the AI ecosystem reinforce our confidence in JFOC's security roadmap. We expect our security call to remain one of JFOC's most significant long-term growth drivers. Finally on security, we are excited to welcome keynote security executives from both entropic and cursor as speakers at our annual SwampUp user conference this September in New York City.

Next, I want to briefly address governance and DevGovOps. It is becoming increasingly clear that AI will only be adapted at enterprise scale if it is trusted. That trust requires governance, compliance, and notability to be engineered directly into the software development workflows, not introduced as a separate manual step. The challenge is not whether these controls can be enforced but how they can be enforced in a multi-agent and hybrid development environment without slowing AI-driven delivery. This is why we believe DevGovOps represent the next evolution of software supply chain management and automation, embedding governance into the software delivery lifecycle so organizations can move fast while remaining secure, compliant, and auditable. In Q2, a leading publicly traded provider of electronic design, simulation, validation, and test solutions for AI infrastructure signed a seven-figure agreement with JFOC, adopting JFOC uptrust, bundled with our software supply chain security solutions.

Building on JFOC's role as the customer's system of record, they expanded their investment to embed DevGovOps across the software delivery lifecycle, enabling centralized governance, compliance, trusted software consumption, and policy enforcement to meet evolving global regulatory and audit requirements for distributed software assets.

As governance, compliance, and DevGovOps continue to rise to the boardroom level, we believe JFOC is uniquely positioned to capture this opportunity. As the infrastructure layer powering the software supply chain, JFOC sits at the center of the software delivery lifecycle, enabling customers to automate governance, enforce policies, and embed compliance natively into their development pipelines rather than relying on manual downstream processes. As we execute on the security expansion of our platform, we continue to invest in expanding our platform to help enterprises not only build and secure software but also govern it with the same level of control, automation, trust, and scale.

Finally, I want to deliver comments on AI adoption and revenue. AI is meaningfully impacting our customer's software supply chain as they increasingly see the need for JFOC to function as their infrastructure for the software that both machines and humans build and consume. We see the usage of AI-specific packages and their dependencies expanding on top of their traditional DevOps and DevSecOps workload goals.

In Q2, we were excited to announce partnerships and integrations that are solidifying JFOC as the enterprise standard for AI-powered software supply chain infrastructure. These investments included the tight integration with anthropic that brings JFOC security and governance solutions to the millions of Cloud Code developers. We also announced the partnership with Kersel, which powers over a million daily users that now have access to development and governance workflows directly in their development environment. We also continued to expand our footprint with the world's leading AI-native companies, welcoming a new logo, displacing a competitive solution that failed to scale with its growth.

This customer migrated to JFOC platform as its software supply chain system of record and binary distribution engine across a multi-region hybrid deployment. As AI leaders increasingly built software with AI for AI, this win further validates our strategy and reinforces JFOC's position as the trusted software infrastructure for the next generation of AI-native autonomous and multi-agent software development. The accelerating adoption of AI development practices and coding agents across our customer base combined with our deep partnerships with the world's leading AI companies is also helping us navigate the enterprise shift toward token economy optimization.

As organizations increasingly govern and cap token consumption, the economics of software development are changing. JFOC's value proposition is fundamentally aligned with this transition because we are focused on the compiled output of software, the binary, not on the number of prompts or lines of code generated. Whether software is written by a human developer, an AI agent or both, it's ultimately results in more trusted binaries that must be secured, managed, governed and distributed. As AI reshapes how software is created, we remain focused not only on what is growing but also on why it's growing and what matters most, the trusted binaries that power production. And with that, I will hand it over to Ed for a detailed review of our second quarter financials and our updated outlook for the third quarter and full year of 2026.

19:02

Ed GrabscheidChief Financial Officer

Ed, thank you, Shlomi and good afternoon everyone. We are incredibly energized by our second quarter results, which is Shlomi noted exceeded the top end of our guidance range across every key metric. These results once again showcase our consistent strategic execution and operational discipline. During the second quarter, total revenues equaled $163.8 million up 29% year over year. These results demonstrate the continued execution of our go-to-market strategy fueled by our cloud revenues, growing demand for our security core products and expansion and our enterprise plus portfolio. Cloud revenues in the second quarter accelerated to $87.5 million up 53% year over year, now representing 53% of total revenues versus 45% in the prior year. Our outperformance in the cloud was driven by robust usage across our customer portfolio, which continues to exceed contractual minimum commitments and increased adoption of our security core products.

We strategically work towards converting this usage into higher annual commitments. During the second quarter, our self managed or on-prem revenues were $76.3 million up 9% year over year. We continue to proactively engage our on-prem customers to migrate workloads to our cloud or hybrid offerings as they explore solutions better aligned with the rapidly changing security environment.

In Q2, 59% of total revenues came from enterprise plus subscriptions up from 55% in the prior year. Driven by the ongoing execution of our enterprise go-to-market strategy and broader customer adoption of the JFrog platform, revenue contribution from enterprise plus subscriptions grew 39% year over year in Q2, 2026. Net dollar retention for the four trailing quarters was 121%, representing a year over year increase of 3% points and a 1% point improvement sequentially.

These results continue to highlight the strong adoption of our security core products, increased cloud usage and conversion of customers into higher annual contracts. We continue to demonstrate the strategic value of JFrog is a mission critical, trusted system of record for our customers' software supply chain with gross retention of 97% as of the second quarter, 2026.

Now, I'll review the income statement in more detail. Gross profit in the quarter was $136.2 million, representing a gross margin of 83.2% versus 83.1% in the year ago period. We remain focused on cloud hosting cost optimization as we anticipate a larger share of our revenues being generated from the cloud. Given our expected increase in cloud revenue contribution to total revenue, we reiterate annual gross margins to be in the range of 82% to 83% in 2026.

Operating expenses in the second quarter were $103.6 million, equaling 63% of revenues. This is compared to $86.4 million or 68% of revenues in the year ago period.

Our operating profit in Q2 was $32.6 million, or an operating margin of 19.9% compared to 15.2% operating margin in the second quarter of 2025. The continued balance between strategic investment and operational efficiency demonstrates our ongoing commitment to profitable growth. Cashflow from operations equaled $57.1 million in the second quarter. After taking into consideration $35.5 million or 28% margin in the year ago period.

Now, turning to the balance sheet. We ended the second quarter with $824.5 million in cash and short-term investments, compared to $704.4 million at the end of 2025. As of June 30th, 2026, our RPO totaled $659 million, a 38% increase year over year. Once again, highlighting the successful execution of our go-to-market strategy as customers continue to make larger commitments to the JFrog platform. As a reminder, RPO excludes any benefit from the customer's usage over contractual minimum commitments. And now, let's turn to the RPO 26. As we enter the third quarter of 2026, we remain optimistic by the strength in our pipeline and the tailwinds of emerging AI workload trends driving increased cloud usage and security core product adoption.

Even as usage trends accelerated through the first half of 2026, our guidance philosophy will remain unchanged as we continue to de-risk large deals due to timing uncertainties and any benefit from cloud usage above contractual commitments.

Looking ahead, our outlook remains anchored by three key drivers, growing contributions from security core products, ongoing adoption of our full platform, and cloud growth driven from higher annual customer commitments. We are raising our estimated full-year 2026 baseline cloud growth to be in the range of 41% to 43%. Given the anticipated contribution from our security core products and increased baseline cloud growth assumptions, we now expect our net dollar retention floor to be 120% for 2026.

Turning to our operating expenses, we continue to focus investments on innovation across our entire platform. We remain committed to a disciplined spending philosophy and confident in our ability to drive ongoing operational efficiency in line with prior execution.

For Q3, we anticipate revenues to be in the range of $164 million and $166 million with non-gap operating profit anticipated to be between $27 million and $29 million. And non-gap earnings per diluted share of $0.22 to $0.24, assuming a share count of approximately 130 million shares. For the full year of 2026, we are again raising our revenue guidance, now anticipating a range of $648 million to $652 million, representing 22% year over year growth at the midpoint. Non-gap operating income is expected to be between $116 million and $120 million, and non-gap diluted earnings per share of $0.96 to $1, assuming a share count of approximately 129 million shares.

Now I'll turn the call back to Shalomi for some closing remarks before we take your questions.

26:34

Shlomi HaimChief Executive Officer

Thank you, Ed. Our second quarter reflected the strength of our strategy and the dedication of our team. We delivered continued cloud expansion, security as a meaningful growth engine, strong enterprise execution, increasing customer platform consolidation and solid free cash flow momentum, all while maintaining the discipline to grow responsibly and efficiently. To every frog around the world, thank you. These outstanding results are your achievements. Together, you turn Q2 into a major win for JFOC. Your passion, resilience, and focus on our customers didn't just deliver another great quarter but lay the foundation for future growth.

As we conclude today's call, we look forward to welcoming many of you to SwampUp New York in just a few weeks. Together with customers and industry leaders from anthropic, cursor, Morgan Stanley, Microsoft, Colweve, NVIDIA, and many others will demonstrate how the software supply chain is evolving for the AI era and how JFOC is helping enterprises control, secure, govern, and scale software creation and delivery in a world powered by developers and AI agents alike.

May the frog be with you. Operator, we are ready for questions.

28:02

We will now begin the question and answer session. Please limit yourself to one question. If you ask a question, please raise your hand now. If you have dialed into today's call, please press star 9 to raise your hand and star 6 to unmute. Please stand by while we compile the Q&A roster. Your first question comes from the line of Mike Seacoast with Needham. Your line is open. Please go ahead.

Questions and answers

28:26

Matt CalitriAnalyst, Needham

Hey, guys, this is Matt Kletryon for Mike Seacoast over at Needham. Thank you for taking our questions. We are hoping you could share some color on the conversations you've been having since the open AI models discovered the self-hosted artifact or zero-days vulnerability. It's worth noting from our perspective, it seemed like the whole ordeal was very well handled, but we were just curious if it's delayed pipeline conversions at all or if there's any plan to continue to leverage these AI models to search for other potential patches going forward. Anything you could share on that whole experience would be helpful.

29:06

Shlomi HaimChief Executive Officer

Yes, well, thank you for the question, obviously. One that we were dealing with in the past two weeks in great partnership with OpenAI. So, as you mentioned, OpenAI have self-hosted artifactory and the drain model that worked on a send box with limited guardrails. AI models in today's world should not be treated as free. They should be treated with zero trust with the security practices that are required around that. Once this AI model found a vulnerability within our factory, they contacted the JFOC team immediately. We remediated fast, walked in great partnership with the security researchers of OpenAI and throughout the last week kept improving this communication between us. Obviously, this is also a great opportunity to discuss the cloud solution, the SaaS solution, that to remind everyone was not rich and also to discuss the security solution the JFOC can provide on top of the factory.

So, great relationship will build a better product. More and more vulnerabilities will be fine as models are getting into the pipelines and I think that what counts is how fast vendors are remediating. We are very pleased, very honored with the relationship we built with OpenAI before and during the incident. That's great. Thanks so much.

30:54

Your next question comes from the line of Miller jump with truest securities. Your line is open. Please go ahead.

30:59

Miller JumpAnalyst, Truist

Hey, great. Thank you for taking my question and congrats on the continued really strong momentum here. I want to stay on security. It was really great to hear about the momentum you saw in the quarter. There were a number of pretty significant open source vulnerabilities that came to light at the end of Q1. Did that have an impact on the Q2 security contribution in your view? Was there any of the second half pipeline of security that actually got pulled forward into the first half as a result of those vulnerabilities? Thanks.

31:36

Shlomi HaimChief Executive Officer

Yes, that's a great question that represents everything we see in the past few quarters. Software supply chain attacks are becoming a daily thing. Just two days ago, another massive attack over millions of open source packages coming from NPM, yet another one. So obviously, we start to see that every CISO asks herself or himself, what's the right firewall we should put from the get-go? Then what the right scanner we should put on top of our system of record? Obviously, this generates a lot of fraction around JFOC, because JFOC is one of the unique security solutions that is not just providing a security solution, but also the system of record that needs to be protected. So, yes, the pipeline is impacted by it.

We were very pleased to see the results in Q2 that are showing yet another growth after the results of Q1. It supports not only our penetration into the DevSecOps world, but also the growth in the cloud.

Looking forward, we are very optimistic, as mentioned on the call, that the security will keep being a very strong growth engine for the company.

33:06

Your next question comes from the line of Mark Cash with Raymond James. Your line is open, please go ahead.

33:11

Mark CashAnalyst, Raymond James

Thanks, yeah. Show me if I can go back to the open AI incident. Like an absolutely novel, your team was great, transparent with disclosing what happened, had solutions in place, take care of customers, and I completely understand this is a strong argument for adopting clouding for security. So, I did want to ask though, considering 47% of your business is self-hosted, how have customers reacted? What have you done to ensure customers are patched and the risk wouldn't spread? And then, could you actually turn this to a positive for demand, as we've seen with some other security companies that used incidents to actually get closer to customers and then drive broader platform adoption? And that's it for me.

Thank you.

33:52

Shlomi HaimChief Executive Officer

Thank you, Mark. Great point. So, I'm thinking about how fast you remediate and how fast you take it to the market, but there is also a very responsible way to treat your customers, and that's transparency. The moment it happened, the first thing that our team did was protecting our cloud customers and releasing a patch to the self-hosted customers. Obviously, this is not in our control, so it can become a tailwind of customers that see the SaaS as a more secure environment, but we immediately released the patch version. It was confirmed by OpenAI as resolving the vulnerability. We were very happy to see that they keep running their models to check if the artifactory is secured and bulletproof, and the answer was yes.

And just yesterday, on a black hat stage, they shared with more transparency what happened there. And obviously, some of it has to do with how you configure your environment and what guardrails you put around models. I think that the entire industry is learning about it. What I see inside JFrog is how fast we remediated the level of transparency with the market, no hidden stuff, like going straight and bold to our customers and demand that they will protect the software supply chain. But I also see an opportunity here to say, hey, you can be much more secure in a cloud, you can even be more secure with security around the model's behavior. Now, what we will see next and have no doubt about that, we will see more models getting more sophisticated, finding more vulnerabilities.

It's not a matter of being the scanner anymore. It's a matter of how fast and how efficient you are in remediating and communicating to your customers.

35:55

Your next question comes from the line of Howard Ma with Guggenheim. Your line is open. Please go ahead.

36:00

Howard MaAnalyst, Guggenheim

Hey guys, thanks and congratulations on a really strong quarter and the full year guidance raised. One for Ed, if you look at the Q2 app performance, how would you compare the mix of higher commitments and overages relative to Q1? And if you could comment on if there was any contribution from the fourth frontier lab customer that you added in a quarter and for the full year as well, so kind of two questions there. Thank you.

36:28

Ed GrabscheidChief Financial Officer

Yeah, thanks for the question, Howard. We don't necessarily split out in terms of providing guidance or updates of what was overcommitted revenue versus commitment revenue, but what I can tell you is in Q2, we saw something very similar to what we saw in Q1, which was strong usage across the customer, a diverse group of customers and our install base, continuation of packages going through the software development lifecycle and satisfactory. And we didn't see a decline by any means in the usage over that minimum commitment and we're very pleased with the end result. In addition to that, we also had, as Shalomie talked about in the prepared statements, we extended our foundational AI labs. We have four of those customers and Shalomie can share a little bit more about that customer that we landed during the quarter.

37:38

Your next question comes from a line of George McCreean with Bank of America. Your line is open, please go ahead.

37:43

Unidentified AnalystAnalyst, Bank of America

Hi, this is George Green on for Koji Kita, Bank of America. Thank you for taking our question. I wanted to ask about kind of the contribution you guys are seeing from your suite of security products, you know, between the three advanced security runtime and curation, kind of, how do you stack rank the contribution from those?

38:05

Shlomi HaimChief Executive Officer

Yeah, I'll take it, George, and thank you for the question. We spoke a moment ago about the amount of software supply to an attack and the kind of, I don't want to say panic, but alerted response from customers and prospects. So obviously the first thing that they are applying is a firewall between the software supply chain, the organization, and the open source apps. This is JFOCuration and we saw JFOCuration being adapted rapidly and also referred on the call. JFOCuration by itself is an amazing firewall, but when it comes with the artifactory integration, that's a bulletproof solution that prevents any malicious package, any vulnerability known, any type of unrequired packages to come into your organization. So because it's so simple and because it's implemented in very high integration with artifactory, obviously our customers and prospects are betting on curation.

And as mentioned on the script, none of our customers got affected by this massive attack of software supply chain out there. The second thing is that what happened once you start to run your pipeline, this is where JFOC x-ray, JFOC advanced security are providing a comprehensive holistic solution on top of your source code or sorry on top of your system of record to make sure that all the binaries, all the software packages and everything that you will distribute will not only be secured, but also known traceable and monitored. So later on, when you need to govern it, when you need to audit it, you have all the information. So obviously because of the amount of software supply chain attack, curation gets the spotlights now, but our customers are requiring more and more security solution from JFOC mainly because of the advantage that we also manage all the binaries for them.

And we also play as the single source of truth.

40:29

Unidentified AnalystAnalyst, Bank of America

That makes a lot of sense. Thank you. And if I could follow up with the second question here, last quarter in cloud consumption, there was usage above commitment. This quarter, you guys noted as well. But I'm wondering if there's any change in customer behavior in terms of are customers getting a better sense of maybe how much they're going to be consuming on JFOC over in the future and getting more comfortable committing at higher levels of usage, or is that maybe not the case? Thank you.

41:14

Shlomi HaimChief Executive Officer

Well, George, this is a wonderful question. What we see is what I'm going to share. A, we see more AI tools being part of the software supply chain that drives scale. B, we see more AI software packages, unique software packages, and we call some specifics like MCP and skills. Just half a year ago, you wouldn't hear those terms. These are all binaries.

So new assets with new software packages. And the third thing is the uncertainty. JFOC provides this flexibility that is amazing, not only for the CIO, but also for the CFO. They need to saddle on what is the right estimation a moment before they decide what would be the budget of 2027. Now, with our philosophy of guiding you guys with the commitment only, if you combine that with the number of customers over a million dollars, number of customers over $100,000, the growth in the cloud, you probably understand that our team is doing great work, converting those over usage to commitment. But we provide you with the full predictability and the certainty around our model, and this is why we follow commitments and not usage.

Usage of commitment is growing, and we will still be focused on the commitment and the cloud migration of our self-hosted customers to the cloud.

42:47

Your next question comes from a line of Roddy Sultan with UBS. Your line is open. Please go ahead.

42:58

Unidentified AnalystAnalyst

Awesome. Yeah, thanks for taking the question. Just one from me, Shalomi, wanted to ask on the shift, we're seeing towards increased adoption of open source and open weight models. Can you just walk through how you see that trend impacting demand and usage? I imagine maybe it's increasing pull through on the security side, but be curious if this could increase the need on the artifact as well. Thank you.

43:14

Shlomi HaimChief Executive Officer

Well, yeah, if you refer to the security, you are very much right. That's a great driver that fuels the growth and the adoption of our security solution. But it's not only because of the open source that is bring both to the organization. It's also because of the new practices that requires new packages to be managed and secure.

Now every vendor provides an MCP software package. You need to govern that. You need to have an MCP registry. You need to make sure that it's secure. JFOC security provides all of these assets on top of JFOC artifactory, which makes the solution far more comprehensive and realistic. I'm not talking about the outcome. What's the real value that we bring? So of course, we see growth there already. And the second thing, it's also the speed and how fast things are happening. And we also mentioned that AI start to be a wallpaper, start to be ambient infrastructure. People just use AI every day for everything. And they expect the software supply chain to be secure, to expect the pipeline to be secured.

Now with the amount of attacks that they see out there, our customers were not affected by it. Just think about the amount of time that they save for not having the need to remediate and recover. So I think that more and more customers put their trust in JFOC security and the holistic solution. And coming up next, also governance, because you also need to trust those software packages that you mentioned before you ship them.

45:12

Unidentified AnalystAnalyst

Awesome. Thank you.

45:15

Your next question comes from the line of Brian Essex with JP Morgan. Your line is open. Please go ahead.

45:21

Brian EssexAnalyst, JPMorgan

Hi. Good afternoon. And thank you for taking the question. Congrats on the results. I just want to follow up to a previous question that was asked about the way that customers are, you know, may or may not be managing their overages. It seems like demand is pretty healthy. You know, Shalami, are you pretty many conversations with your customers in terms of how they might be addressing more efficient spend, just in general, but also on your platform? That's question number one. And then as we approach swamp up, just wanted to get a sense of, you know, sometimes it's difficult to time product releases with a specific conference, you know, sometimes companies release products when they're ready.

You know, how should, like, what should we expect as we headed into swamp up, being kind of relatively new to the story here? Thank you.

46:11

Shlomi HaimChief Executive Officer

Brian, thank you for bringing swamp up. It's going to be an amazing conference again. We already see the speaker line up. I'll start with that. I'll just say that obviously the main thing that we see at swamp up is that the world biggest organizations are using JFrog and willing to share their best practices. And this is gold for our users. Alongside that, there are the JFrog announcement, which are exciting, very much aligned with the future roadmap. But in the world of AI, if I will wait for swamp up to release our product, our company will go backward and not leap forward. So expect a lot of excitement also on stage, but also with the customer's conversation.

Regarding the efficiency and management of budget. So what is it that we see, right? We see more talk and being spent that generate more software, because AI agents are being fueled, and that generates probably a higher cloud consumption. But people are asking, will that be forever like that? The answer for sure not, because now we are transforming from the CIO Formo, which was around technology to the CFO Formo, which is around budget control.

And then we have to ask ourselves, what is the desired outcome of software pipeline, of software supply chain of the AI world? What's the desired outcome? The desired outcome is that you will have more software being shift in a higher quality. What I just said equals binary. And this is what JFrog is monetizing on. We are monetizing on binary traffic. So we think, we suspect that CFOs will be smart enough and disciplined enough not to block innovation inside JFrog. We keep saying that you can also optimize how much you want to pay for the electricity you consume at home, but you still don't sit in the dark, right? You just train yourself to close the light before you live.

That's the difference between source code and binaries. The desired outcome of a better AI is better binaries in high quality and higher consumption.

48:48

Brian EssexAnalyst, JPMorgan

God, I thank you very much. I appreciate it.

48:52

Your next question comes from the line of Andrew Sherman with TD Callen. Your line is open. Please go ahead.

48:57

Andrew ShermanAnalyst, TD Cowen

Oh, great. Thanks, guys. And congrats on another quarter of acceleration here. And the buildings in RPO were extremely strong. RPO added a record 84 million. Could you talk about the breadth and nature of the big deals that went into that? And was there any pull forward from the second half pipeline and how is the second half pipeline looking? Thanks.

49:21

Ed GrabscheidChief Financial Officer

Yeah, thanks for recognizing that in the RPO. We're very proud of that. And that actually comes from the efforts that we have around our security products. That's a driving increase in our ASPs. And you saw that in the million dollar number, 80% of the million dollar customers that we added this quarter had security attached to it. And that along with even the new customer lands, 40% of those customers with security are driving much of the RPO. In addition to that, customers that land with security typically take a multi-year agreement as well. So the construct is a larger ASP longer in duration and that results in strong RPO. And that's what we're seeing. We did not pull really anything in from Q3.

We just had strong build in the quarter and execution from the team and that pipeline that we built really came from the shy hollood events that started in Q3 of last year. And it continued to build the sales organization executed on those deals and it's reflected in our results.

50:25

Shlomi HaimChief Executive Officer

I might just add to it is that completely everything that I said, some of those macro impact of open source attack is out of our control. Obviously, these are awful things that are happening, but AI also make the hacker more sophisticated. And this software supply chain rapid attack might expedite some of what some of the opportunities we have in the pipeline.

50:54

Andrew ShermanAnalyst, TD Cowen

Great. Thanks guys.

50:54

Your next question comes from the line of Jason Salino with KeyBank. Your line is open. Please go ahead.

51:06

Unidentified AnalystAnalyst

Great. Thank you. Swami, I don't think you've had the opportunity to talk about your important fourth AI customer here. It seems like the hybrid deployment model is unique and interesting. Maybe can you speak to why this is maybe different from your other AI native customer deals. And then secondly, we on the street always want more. Is there a pipeline or opportunity to land other AI natives of this magnitude? Thanks.

51:38

Shlomi HaimChief Executive Officer

Yeah, well, listen, we are so honored and so excited to add more and more companies that are building the world of AI. And this one that we just won this quarter was a great win. And it was sweeter also because of the fact that we displaced the competitor that couldn't scale. The amount of binaries and the traffic that needed to be supported was not something that they could do. This AI factory moved to JFrog and they moved to JFrog in a very interesting way. They took JFrog platform as their mothership in the cloud and with some self-husted, artifactory servers in their data center. So they will not only have the power of the JFrog platform supported by our services, but also to have a super robust distribution mechanism from this mothership to all data centers from artifactory to artifactory.

You know, working with these companies that build with AI for AI makes JFrog better. We spoke earlier about the Open AI incident. This is how JFrog becomes a thousand times stronger because these guys, they take you to delimit with security scanning, with scaling, with different deployment environment. And we are very pleased and very honored to have them on board. Obviously, they look at JFrog as the plumbers of the pipelines, the providers of the infrastructure to the software supply chain.

53:24

Unidentified AnalystAnalyst

Thank you.

53:24

Your next question comes from the line. Next question, Jean Singh with Morgan Stanley. Your line is open. Please go ahead.

53:33

Sanjit SinghAnalyst, Morgan Stanley

Yeah, thank you for taking questions and congrats on an awesome quarter. It was great to see. So I mean, I think you and I discussed before in terms of some of the evolution that JFrog is going through. You guys were one of the key destinations for container registries and those kind of traditional software artifacts. You mentioned the initiative to be the home of models and some of the newer kind of AI native artifacts. And just to get a sense of how that trend is evolving in terms of winning those newer artifacts.

54:05

Shlomi HaimChief Executive Officer

Yes, Sanjid, great to see you on the call. You're right. And you watch the JFrog transformation before AI and hopefully with AI. So what do we see happening? We see that the world of software supply chain management move from just managing the pipelines to also secure them and govern them. And by being focused on the right assets, what we keep saying from the foundation days of the company binary is the primary asset. By being focused on that, we are not only providing our customers with the smart storage that can scale in the cloud and on-prem, but we also provide them with a comprehensive security solution. And now, as you probably heard on the call, we just started to win our first DevGovOps customers and deals.

People understand and we saw it again this week with OpenAI, models need to be governed. So to your point, Sanjid, we became the biggest container registry after Docker boom. And now we are becoming the biggest model registry for customers mainly because of the following. They can scale with us, they can trust and they can secure and they can govern. So if we will provide them this fundamental and it's on us to prove, then I think that you will see the next leap in our evolution. What also matters is that the AI companies, the AI native and the AI labs companies trust JFrog to do it for them. So we are learning a lot, we are improving a lot.

Just to stay humble, we are in the beginning of the journey.

56:02

Your final question comes from the line of Kingsley Crane with Canacord. Your line is open, please go ahead.

56:09

Kingsley CraneAnalyst, Canaccord

Great. Thanks for taking the question, fit me in. Just to build off what we've been talking about earlier, as novel, agentic attacks, they become more apparent. How do you manage an intelligence that we don't necessarily fully understand that's now capable enough to be dangerous? So you mentioned earlier that AI models should not be treated as free. Is it consensus that customers are treating coding agents with that same scrutiny they do with third party packages? Are they still adjusting to that? Thanks.

56:35

Shlomi HaimChief Executive Officer

Well, Kingsley, I'll be honest with you, with over 6,000 customers, you see everything. You see customers that are just kind of being attracted by the technology and adopt AI with no responsibility, and you see customers that are terrified and take it one step at the time. I think that what is special for the experience that we get from companies like OpenAI and other leading AI labs is that they are showing us not only what need to be done, but also what happens if you don't do it right? And if you don't do it right, models are becoming sophisticated and even smarter than our most senior developers and engineers.

So I believe that the world will become mature and their regulation and guardrails and security we are discussing with our customers is how important it is not only to host the models and to host the binaries and the outcomes for them, but also how we secure the entire pipeline. And there is no better school than this AI labs to learn it from them. It's a great privilege to have all of these customers.

58:09

This concludes the question and answer session. I will now turn the call back to Shlomi for closing remarks.

58:18

Shlomi HaimChief Executive Officer

Thank you everyone for joining our call. Obviously Q2 was yet an amazing quarter for us. We are focusing on delivering what we committed in 2026 and looking forward to seeing you at SwampUP where we will host an investor meetup to keep answering your question in full transparency and with the right excitement and may the frog be with you. Take care.

58:46

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