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.
1 private repository, unlimited public repositories. 200 pulls per 6-hour window (authenticated). No automated builds on free tier Best for unlimited usage needs.
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.
Always Free: 0.5 GB storage/month. Universal package manager for Docker, Maven, npm, Python, and OS packages
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
| 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 |
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.
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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