Every free container registry tier that clears our bar in 2026: 9 offers meet the criteria and 0 offers are demoted with a named reason. Verified pricing, recorded changes, and a published ranking method.

Best Free Container Registry Tools

Every free container registry tier that clears our bar today. Updated 2026-09-11.

9 offers meet our criteria for this category and none is distinguishable from the others under any signal we record. 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 554 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 →
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Free

Harbor based Container Management Solution. The free tier offers 1 GB of storage for private repositories.

2
Always Free

Public container registry. Always-free tier: 50 GB/month storage, 500 GB/month anonymous data transfer, 5 TB/month with AWS account

3
Free

A simple, interactive, fun playground to learn Docker.

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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.

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ttl.sh stable
Free

Anonymous & ephemeral Docker image registry

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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.

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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

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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.

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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.

Nothing on this page is demoted today — we hold no disqualifying record against any of these offers.

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
2026-09-11
query_key
best-of:Container Registry
seed
306113a8e379be0e525f07fd9b2e8f4b1b1b00ed603b6b1d689381697078d68a
tie_count
9

Quick Comparison

Vendor Free Tier Key Limits Stability Verified
Container Registry Service Free Harbor based Container Management Solution. The free tier offers 1 GB of storage for private repositories. 2026-08-16
Amazon ECR Public Always Free Public container registry. Always-free tier: 50 GB/month storage, 500 GB/month anonymous data transfer, 5 TB/month with ... 2026-07-29
Play with Docker Free A simple, interactive, fun playground to learn Docker. 2026-07-22
Harbor Free OSS Free OSS (Apache 2.0). CNCF graduated cloud-native container registry. RBAC, vulnerability scanning, image signing, repl... 2026-07-29
ttl.sh Free Anonymous & ephemeral Docker image registry stable 2026-09-01
Docker Hub Personal 1 private repository, unlimited public repositories. 200 pulls per 6-hour window (authenticated). No automated builds on... stable 2026-07-07
GitHub Container Registry Free Container images currently free for both public and private repos (GitHub may change with 1-month notice). Non-container... 2026-08-26
Quay.io Free Red Hat container registry — unlimited public repositories, 100 GB image layer storage soft cap, 1 TB egress soft cap. C... 2026-07-27
Google Artifact Registry Always Free Always Free: 0.5 GB storage/month. Universal package manager for Docker, Maven, npm, Python, and OS packages stable 2026-09-02

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