Compare 9 free container registry tools, free tiers, and developer deals. 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. Nothing on record contradicts our terms for Docker Hub, ttl.sh, Google Artifact Registry.
What this name holds: Registries that store and serve container images.
We track 9 container registry services with a free tier we hold as current. This category has been relatively stable — only 2 pricing changes recorded across all vendors.
| Vendor | Tier | Description | Read / catalogue date |
|---|---|---|---|
| GitHub Container Registry | 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/moThe 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. | 2026-10-09 / 2026-08-26 |
| Docker Hub | Personal | 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 | 2026-10-28 / 2026-07-07 |
| Quay.io | 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/TLSThe 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. | 2026-10-09 / 2026-07-27 |
| Harbor | Free OSS | Free OSS (Apache 2.0). CNCF graduated cloud-native container registry. RBAC, vulnerability scanning, image signing, replication, audit logging. Self-hostedThe 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. | 2026-10-09 / 2026-07-29 |
| 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 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. | 2026-10-21 / 2026-07-29 |
| Container Registry Service | 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 2026-10-14, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-10-14 / 2026-08-16 |
| Play with Docker | 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 2026-10-14, so we cannot confirm these terms today. | 2026-10-14 / 2026-07-22 |
| ttl.sh | Free | Anonymous & ephemeral Docker image registry | 2026-11-03 |
| Google Artifact Registry | Always Free | Always Free: 0.5 GB storage/month. Universal package manager for Docker, Maven, npm, Python, and OS packages
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