Compare Container Registry Service and Docker Hub free tiers side by side. Pricing, limits, change history, and risk assessment for developers.

Container Registry Service vs Docker Hub

Side-by-side free tier comparison. Catalogue dates here run to 2026-08-16.

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Verdict

Docker Hub offers a free tier ("Personal"). We are not publishing a free-tier verdict for Container Registry Service. The page we cite for Container Registry Service states no amount, tier or rate we can read when we last looked, on 2026-10-14. 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180 days and then lapses on its own, with nothing about the vendor having changed; a standing condition — a free tier withdrawn and not restored, a product retired — does not lapse with time.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.

Container Registry Service

Risk
CategoryContainer Registry
TierFree
Verified2026-08-16
Last read2026-10-14
Changes0 recorded
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.

Docker Hub

Riskstable
CategoryContainer Registry
TierPersonal
Verified2026-07-07
Last read2026-10-28
Changes1 recorded
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

Container Registry Service

No recorded pricing changes for Container Registry Service.

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 ↗

Watch Both Vendors for Pricing Changes

We do not push notifications. Every change we record is readable the moment it lands, and the JSON answer carries an ETag — send it back as If-None-Match and an unchanged answer costs one 304.

curl https://agentdeals.dev/api/changes?vendor=Container%20Registry%20Service curl https://agentdeals.dev/pricing-changes/feed.xml?vendor=Container%20Registry%20Service curl https://agentdeals.dev/api/changes?vendor=Docker%20Hub curl https://agentdeals.dev/pricing-changes/feed.xml?vendor=Docker%20Hub

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