Every free container registry tier that clears our bar in 2026: 3 offers meet the criteria and 6 offers are demoted with a named reason. Recorded changes and a published ranking method. We could not confirm today's terms for 6 of them, and on all 6 the page we cite did not answer. Each row says why.
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 2026-10-09, 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
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 2026-10-21, 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 2026-10-14, so we cannot confirm these terms today.
1 private repository, unlimited public repositories. 100 pulls an hour when logged in (Docker's pricing page); without logging in, 100 an hour per IP address (Docker Hub's rate-limit header, 2026-11-02). No automated builds on free tier
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 2026-10-14, 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. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-09, 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. The page we cite for this offer states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-09, 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 | 2026-11-03 |
| GitHub Container Registry | Free | Container images currently free for both public and private repos (GitHub may change with 1-month notice). Non-container... | not published page states no amount · 2026-10-09 |
2026-10-09 / 2026-08-26 |
| Google Artifact Registry | Always Free | Always Free: 0.5 GB storage/month. Universal package manager for Docker, Maven, npm, Python, and OS packages. Google Cloud's Free Tier requires a billing account. (From https://docs.cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features, read 2026-10-07.) Usage beyond the Free Tier's monthly limits is billed at standard rates. (From https://docs.cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features, read 2026-10-07.) | stable | 2026-11-03 |
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 3 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.
3 offers meet our criteria for this category. Of those, 2 carry no recorded change to the terms we publish, 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, where the listing is gated, or where a narrowing in our records cites no source or no archived copy of the vendor's page has confirmed it. We do not rank these by how much you get, because the limits are not comparable without reading each vendor's page.