Compare Amazon ECR Public and Docker Hub free tiers side by side. Pricing, limits, change history, and risk assessment for developers.

Amazon ECR Public vs Docker Hub

Side-by-side free tier comparison. Catalogue dates here run to 2026-07-29.

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Verdict

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 2026-09-09. We are not comparing the two pricing histories.

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Amazon ECR Public

Risk
CategoryContainer Registry
TierAlways Free
Verified2026-07-29
Last read2026-08-28
Changes1 recorded
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.

Docker Hub

Riskstable
CategoryContainer Registry
TierPersonal
Verified2026-07-07
Last read2026-09-12
Changes1 recorded
1 private repository, unlimited public repositories. 200 pulls per 6-hour window (authenticated). No automated builds on free tier

Pricing Change History

Amazon ECR Public

increased discovered 2026-08-28 · effective date unknown low 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. Source ↗

Docker Hub

restructured effective 2024-12-10 high 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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