Every free container registry tier that clears our bar in 2026: 4 offers meet the criteria and 5 offers are demoted with a named reason. Recorded changes and a published ranking method. We could not confirm today's terms for 7 of them: on 6 the page we cite did not answer, and on 1 our own read did not confirm them. Each row says why.

Best Free Container Registry Tools

Every free container registry tier that clears our bar today. Updated 2026-09-30.

4 offers meet our criteria for this category. Of those, 2 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, 1 a recorded narrowing, and we publish no durability signal for 1. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We withhold the class where the pricing page does not resolve or states no amount, tier or rate we can read, where we refused the last read, or where the listing is gated. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page. They are listed in an order that rotates daily. Here is how that order is derived. There is no top slot here to sell.
Why trust this data? Every free tier is verified against the vendor's pricing page with dates tracked. We monitor 476 pricing changes and flag vendors that have reduced or removed free tiers. Rankings start every offer at zero and can only demote. There is no signal a vendor can acquire, lobby for, or buy — there is nothing to add. A record reaches a function page when its category names the function or when it carries a subtype label that names the function. Adding a label to a record publishes it here; removing one withdraws it. No page holds a list of vendors. See all 9 container registry offers →
1
ttl.sh stable
Free

Anonymous & ephemeral Docker image registry

2
Docker Hub stable
Personal

1 private repository, unlimited public repositories. 200 pulls per 6-hour window (authenticated). No automated builds on free tier Best for unlimited usage needs.

3
Always Free

Public container registry — As a new Amazon ECR customer, you get 500 MB per month of storage for your private repositories for one year as part of the AWS Free Tier . Both new and existing customers get 50 GB per month of always-free storage for their public repositories. You can anonymously (without using an AWS account) transfer 500 GB of data to the Internet from a public repository each month for free. If you sign up for an AWS account, or authenticate to Amazon ECR with an existing AWS account, you can transfer 5 TB of data to the Internet from a public repository each month for free. The page we cite for this offer names the platform it runs on and not the offer itself when we last looked, on 2026-09-09, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

4
Always Free

Always Free: 0.5 GB storage/month. Universal package manager for Docker, Maven, npm, Python, and OS packages

Demoted — and exactly why

These offers reach this page too and rank below the list above. Each one names the recorded fact behind it. A recorded limit reduction, pricing restructure or new restriction is shown on every surface where the offer appears, with its date and summary — but it does not move rank. We have change records for only 16% of vendors, and disproportionately for well-known ones, so ranking on them would demote the vendors we happen to watch most closely.

−1
Free

Harbor based Container Management Solution. The free tier offers 1 GB of storage for private repositories. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-02, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

Red Hat container registry — unlimited public repositories, 100 GB image layer storage soft cap, 1 TB egress soft cap. CI integration, robot accounts, teams, SSL/TLS Best for unlimited usage needs. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-02, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

Container images currently free for both public and private repos (GitHub may change with 1-month notice). Non-container packages: 500 MB storage, 1 GB transfer/mo. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-02, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free

A simple, interactive, fun playground to learn Docker. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-02, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
−1
Free OSS

Free OSS (Apache 2.0). CNCF graduated cloud-native container registry. RBAC, vulnerability scanning, image signing, replication, audit logging. Self-hosted Best for open source projects. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-09-02, so we cannot confirm these terms today.

  • −1 stale_verification Our last read of the vendor's pricing page, on 2026-09-02, could read no amount, tier or rate on the page. This is our confidence in the record, not a change by the vendor. (a limit of ours, not a change by the vendor)
Recompute today's order yourself. The order above is a permutation seeded only on the UTC date and the query key — no vendor name, slug, id or offer field is an input. The algorithm is published, so anyone can reproduce this page's order without asking us.
date
2026-09-30
query_key
best-of:Container Registry
seed
11df51337abd886b10b91e8a51998ed8a0bf703e6b3f01d337c13a70146e2da9
tie_count
4

Quick Comparison

Vendor Free Tier Key Limits Durability Read / catalogue date
ttl.sh Free Anonymous & ephemeral Docker image registry stable 2026-09-18
Docker Hub Personal 1 private repository, unlimited public repositories. 200 pulls per 6-hour window (authenticated). No automated builds on...
read found the page different · 2026-09-12
watch
effective 2024-12-10
2026-09-12 / 2026-07-07
Amazon ECR Public Always Free Public container registry — As a new Amazon ECR customer, you get 500 MB per month of storage for your private repositor... not published
page omits the product · 2026-09-09
2026-08-28 / 2026-07-29
Google Artifact Registry Always Free Always Free: 0.5 GB storage/month. Universal package manager for Docker, Maven, npm, Python, and OS packages stable 2026-09-18

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the best free container registry tool in 2026?

We publish no ranking of these. Nothing we record measures popularity or generosity, so naming a best or a top few would be our preference rather than our data. We hold 4 free container registry offers that clear our bar, each listed with the terms we publish and the date we last read them. Our ranking rule is published at /criteria.

Which of these free container registry tiers have held their terms?

4 offers meet our criteria for this category. Of those, 2 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, 1 a recorded narrowing, and we publish no durability signal for 1. The Durability column below says which offer is in which group, and links the dated record behind every change. We withhold the class where the pricing page does not resolve or states no amount, tier or rate we can read, where we refused the last read, or where the listing is gated. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page.

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