Harbor comparisons
Harbor is compared head-to-head with Quay, 8gears Container Registry and Zot Registry and more: 7 head-to-heads in Container Registries, each with the specs and prices we checked.
Harbor head-to-head
- Harbor vs Quay
- Harbor vs 8gears Container Registry
- Harbor vs Zot Registry
- Harbor vs Angos
- Harbor vs JFrog Container Registry
- Harbor vs Amazon Elastic Container Registry
- Harbor vs Alibaba Cloud Container Registry
Harbor vs each of them
| # | Tool | Free plan | Paid from | Image scanning | OCI artifacts | Immutable tags | Retention policies | Replication scope | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Harbor | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 9.4 | ||
| 2 | Quay | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Multi-region | 9.3 | |
| 3 | 8gears Container Registry | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Multi-region | 9.2 | |
| 4 | Zot Registry | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 9.1 | ||
| 5 | Angos | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 9.0 | ||
| 6 | JFrog Container Registry | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Multi-region | 8.9 | ||
| 7 | Amazon Elastic Container Registry | No | $0.10/GB/mo | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Multi-region | 8.8 |
| 8 | Alibaba Cloud Container Registry | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Global | 8.7 |
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