Docker Hub offers a free tier ("Personal"). We are not publishing a free-tier verdict for Amazon ECR Public. The page we cite for Amazon ECR Public names the platform it runs on and not Amazon ECR Public itself when we last looked, on 2026-10-21. We are not comparing the two pricing histories.
A verdict here is not a fixed property of the vendor. A one-off pricing event demotes a vendor while its recorded date falls in the last 180 days and then lapses on its own, with nothing about the vendor having changed; a standing condition — a free tier withdrawn and not restored, a product retired — does not lapse with time. A badge carrying a date states the record it rests on; a badge with no date rests on no record in force.
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.
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
Pricing Change History
Amazon ECR Public
increaseddiscovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknownlow impact
The free tier for public repositories is now 50 GB/month, up from 500 MB/month. The anonymous data transfer limit is 500 GB/month, and with an AWS account, it's 5 TB/month. Unconfirmed. We could not check this change against an archived copy of Amazon ECR Public's page, so it does not count toward the rating.Source ↗
Docker Hub
restructuredeffective 2024-12-10high impact
Docker Pro +80% ($5→$9/mo), Team +67% ($9→$15/mo). Free tier: Build Cloud minutes removed, Scout repos cut 3→1, private repos limited to 1 with 2GB storage Source ↗
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