diff --git a/dep_freshness/_tables.py b/dep_freshness/_tables.py
index 2bf35be..3aa7390 100644
--- a/dep_freshness/_tables.py
+++ b/dep_freshness/_tables.py
@@ -64,6 +64,11 @@ MAVEN_REPOS: Final = (
     "https://repo1.maven.org/maven2/",
     "https://plugins.gradle.org/m2/",
 )
+# Asked only when none of the above knows an artifact AND the group is not
+# `com.github.*` (whose metadata is the 401 above): JitPack also hosts
+# artifacts under their own group, e.g. `cz.adaptech.tesseract4android`,
+# whose metadata answers 200 with the full release list.
+JITPACK_REPO: Final = "https://jitpack.io/"
 UTILS_TAG_REMOTE: Final = "https://github.com/kuhyx/utils"
 # JitPack coordinates: `com.github.<owner>:<repo>` or
 # `com.github.<owner>.<repo>:<module>`; the GitHub repo is what "HEAD" means.
diff --git a/dep_freshness/registries/maven.py b/dep_freshness/registries/maven.py
index b1cbb9a..983a261 100644
--- a/dep_freshness/registries/maven.py
+++ b/dep_freshness/registries/maven.py
@@ -16,7 +16,9 @@ artifacts published nowhere else (PhotoView, DirectionalViewPager). Since
 themselves still download, so a `com.github.<owner>:<repo>` name that no
 repository knows is answered from the GitHub repo's tags over `git
 ls-remote` (unmetered, no token). JitPack's version IS the tag name, `v`
-prefix included, so the tags are compared as they are.
+prefix included, so the tags are compared as they are. Artifacts JitPack
+hosts under their OWN group (`cz.adaptech.tesseract4android`) still get
+200 metadata there, so JitPack is the last resort for any other name.
 
 `<latest>` and `<release>` in the metadata are not trusted: AndroidX writes
 `1.2.0-alpha03` into `<latest>` routinely. The full `<versions>` list goes
@@ -32,7 +34,12 @@ from __future__ import annotations
 
 from xml.etree import ElementTree
 
-from dep_freshness._tables import GITHUB_REMOTE, MAVEN_REPOS
+from dep_freshness._tables import (
+    GITHUB_REMOTE,
+    JITPACK_GROUP_PREFIX,
+    JITPACK_REPO,
+    MAVEN_REPOS,
+)
 from dep_freshness.registries._git import ls_remote
 from dep_freshness.registries.gitcommit import source_repo
 from dep_freshness.registries.http import get_text
@@ -69,6 +76,15 @@ def github_tags(name: str) -> list[str]:
     return [line.rpartition("refs/tags/")[2] for line in lines if "refs/tags/" in line]
 
 
+def _jitpack_versions(name: str) -> list[str]:
+    """What only JitPack knows: tags for `com.github.*`, metadata otherwise."""
+    if name.startswith(JITPACK_GROUP_PREFIX):
+        return github_tags(name)
+    url = metadata_url(JITPACK_REPO, name)
+    body = get_text(url) if url else None
+    return versions_in(body) if body is not None else []
+
+
 def latest(name: str) -> str | None:
     seen: list[str] = []
     for repo in MAVEN_REPOS:
@@ -79,5 +95,5 @@ def latest(name: str) -> str | None:
         if body is not None:
             seen.extend(versions_in(body))
     if not seen:
-        seen.extend(github_tags(name))
+        seen.extend(_jitpack_versions(name))
     return reference(seen) or newest_per_generation(seen)
diff --git a/dep_freshness/tests/test_gradle_registry.py b/dep_freshness/tests/test_gradle_registry.py
index de02002..e7834a0 100644
--- a/dep_freshness/tests/test_gradle_registry.py
+++ b/dep_freshness/tests/test_gradle_registry.py
@@ -147,6 +147,47 @@ def test_a_tagless_repo_and_a_non_jitpack_name_are_none(repos, monkeypatch):
     assert calls == [("https://github.com/o/r", "--tags", "--refs")]
 
 
+JITPACK = maven.JITPACK_REPO
+TESSERACT = "cz.adaptech.tesseract4android:tesseract4android"
+
+
+def test_a_jitpack_only_artifact_is_answered_by_jitpack_metadata(repos):
+    """Tesseract4Android is published on JitPack under its own group, not
+    `com.github.*`, so there is no source repo to read tags from; JitPack's
+    metadata for it answers 200 and lists every release."""
+    repos[maven.metadata_url(JITPACK, TESSERACT)] = metadata(
+        "4.7.0", "4.9.0", "4.1.1a", latest="4.9.0"
+    )
+    assert maven.latest(TESSERACT) == "4.9.0"
+
+
+def test_jitpack_is_asked_last_and_only_when_nobody_else_knows_the_name(
+    repos, monkeypatch
+):
+    asked: list[str] = []
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        maven, "get_text", lambda url, *a, **k: asked.append(url) or repos.get(url)
+    )
+    repos[maven.metadata_url(CENTRAL, "io.coil-kt:coil")] = metadata("2.7.0")
+    assert maven.latest("io.coil-kt:coil") == "2.7.0"
+    assert not any(url.startswith(JITPACK) for url in asked)
+
+
+def test_a_github_jitpack_name_never_asks_jitpack_metadata(repos, monkeypatch):
+    """That endpoint answers 401 for `com.github.*`; the tags are the answer."""
+    asked: list[str] = []
+    monkeypatch.setattr(
+        maven, "get_text", lambda url, *a, **k: asked.append(url) or None
+    )
+    tags(monkeypatch, {"o/r": ["1.0.0"]})
+    assert maven.latest("com.github.o:r") == "1.0.0"
+    assert not any(url.startswith(JITPACK) for url in asked)
+
+
+def test_a_name_jitpack_does_not_know_either_is_none(repos):
+    assert maven.latest(TESSERACT) is None
+
+
 def test_an_unreachable_repo_is_offline(repos, monkeypatch):
     tags(monkeypatch, {})
     with pytest.raises(Offline):