Comparison

Docker vs Prometheus

No clear leader: Docker (70.4) and Prometheus (66.8) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

Docker full profile →Prometheus full profile →

Machine formatsMarkdownJSONGraphQLMarkdown is open. JSON and GraphQL need a free key.

Docker70

Prometheus67

Attribute comparison across 2 tools
Attribute	Docker	Prometheus
vioscaleAI score	70 / 100medium · 61%	67 / 100medium · 57%
Pricing
Free tierpricing.free_tier	✓	✓
Modelpricing.model	open_source	open_source
Price levelpricing.price_level	free	free
Transparentpricing.transparent	✓	✓
Integrations
Countintegrations.count	-	60
Security
Disclosure policysecurity.disclosure_policy	✓	✓
Gdprsecurity.gdpr	✓	✓
Iso27001security.iso27001	✓	-
Scorecardsecurity.scorecard	9.1	8.1
Soc2security.soc2	✓	-
Trust centersecurity.trust_center	https://www.docker.com/blog/eu-ai-act-compliance/	https://prometheus.io/docs/operating/security/
Vulnerabilitiessecurity.vulnerabilities	Count: 13 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fmoby%2Fmoby&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 4 · Max severity: HIGH	Count: 7 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fprometheus%2Fprometheus&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 4 · Max severity: HIGH
Reliability
Status pagereliability.status_page	✓	-
Adoption
Dependent reposadoption.dependent_repos	1,657	5,467
Github starsadoption.github_stars	72,148	66,366
Package downloads weeklyadoption.package_downloads_weekly	-	11,748,542
Activity
Commits last 30dactivity.commits_last_30d	100	100
Release
Cadence daysrelease.cadence_days	2	7
Historyrelease.history	20 items	20 items
License
Spdxlicense.spdx	Apache-2.0	Apache-2.0
Language
Primarylanguage.primary	Go	Go
Market
Availabilitymarket.availability	Available worldwide · Popular in US	Available worldwide
Content
Faqcontent.faq	7 items	7 items

Score

vioscaleAI score

Docker70 / 100medium · 61%

Prometheus67 / 100medium · 57%

Pricing

Free tier

Docker✓

Prometheus✓

Model

Dockeropen_source

Prometheusopen_source

Price level

Dockerfree

Prometheusfree

Transparent

Docker✓

Prometheus✓

Integrations

Count

Docker–

Prometheus60

Security

Disclosure policy

Docker✓

Prometheus✓

Gdpr

Docker✓

Prometheus✓

Iso27001

Docker✓

Prometheus–

Scorecard

Docker9.1

Prometheus8.1

Soc2

Docker✓

Prometheus–

Trust center

Dockerhttps://www.docker.com/blog/eu-ai-act-compliance/

Prometheushttps://prometheus.io/docs/operating/security/

Vulnerabilities

DockerCount: 13 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fmoby%2Fmoby&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 4 · Max severity: HIGH

PrometheusCount: 7 · Source: https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fprometheus%2Fprometheus&per_page=100 · Last 12m: 4 · Max severity: HIGH

Reliability

Status page

Docker✓

Prometheus–

Adoption

Dependent repos

Docker1,657

Prometheus5,467

Github stars

Docker72,148

Prometheus66,366

Package downloads weekly

Docker–

Prometheus11,748,542

Activity

Commits last 30d

Docker100

Prometheus100

Release

Cadence days

Docker2

Prometheus7

History

Docker20 items

Prometheus20 items

License

Spdx

DockerApache-2.0

PrometheusApache-2.0

Language

Primary

DockerGo

PrometheusGo

Market

Availability

DockerAvailable worldwide · Popular in US

PrometheusAvailable worldwide

Content

Faq

Docker7 items

Prometheus7 items

Features

The capabilities each product documents. These tools do not share a category taxonomy, so this aligns what each vendor states rather than a normalised feature set.

Declared feature comparison
Feature	Docker	Prometheus
Built in networking cni	✓	-
Clustering	-	distributed
Compression	-	XOR2 float chunk encoding
Data model	-	metrics
Deployment	-	self_hosted
Gui dashboard	✓	-
High cardinality	-	strong
Hosting	both	-
Ingest model	-	both
Licence class	-	permissive_oss
Orchestration	swarm	-
Prometheus remote write	-	✓
Query language	-	PromQL
Replication ha	-	✓
Rootless	✓	-
Sql compatibility	-	non_sql
Windows containers	✓	-

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Docker

An open-source project providing toolkit components for containerization, designed for engineers and developers to modify, experiment with, and build container-based systems. It includes container build tools, registries, orchestration, runtimes, and other components that work together but can be independently swapped.

Independently observed

Prometheus

A pull-based monitoring platform that periodically scrapes metrics from instrumented targets over HTTP and stores them in a time-series database. It provides PromQL for querying metrics and integrates with Alertmanager for rule-based alerting and incident notifications.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Docker

from $9/moHybridFree tier

From free (Personal tier) to $24/seat/month (Business). Docker Hardened Images starting at $5k/repo (Select tier).

Docker PersonalFree
- Docker Desktop
- Docker Engine + Kubernetes
- Docker Hub
- Docker Scout
- Docker Debug
Docker Pro$9/seat/month (monthly billing) or $11/seat/month (annual billing)
- Docker Build Cloud
- Testcontainers Cloud
- Synchronized File Shares
- Docker Scout health scores visibility
- 5 business day support
Docker Team$15/seat/month (monthly billing) or $16/seat/month (annual billing)
- Add users in bulk
- Audit logs
- Docker Hub role-based access control
- 2 business day support
Docker BusinessContact sales
- Hardened Docker Desktop
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- SCIM user provisioning
- Image and Registry Access Management
- Desktop Insights Dashboard
- +3 more

as of 2026-08-05verify ↗

Prometheus

Open sourceFree tier

as of 2026-08-14verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platform and deployment support comparison
Supports	Docker	Prometheus
WebPlatforms	✗	✓
macOSPlatforms	✗	✓
WindowsPlatforms	✓	✓
LinuxPlatforms	✓	✓
CLIPlatforms	✓	✓
Self-hostedDeployment	✓	✓
On-premiseDeployment	✗	✓

Platforms

Web

Docker✗

Prometheus✓

macOS

Docker✗

Prometheus✓

Windows

Docker✓

Prometheus✓

Linux

Docker✓

Prometheus✓

CLI

Docker✓

Prometheus✓

Deployment

Self-hosted

Docker✓

Prometheus✓

On-premise

Docker✗

Prometheus✓

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Docker

Not documented yet.

Prometheus

65 total

Amazon SNS
Discord
incident.io
Jira
Mattermost
Microsoft Teams
OpsGenie
PagerDuty
Pushover
Rocket.Chat
Slack
Telegram
VictorOps
Webex
WeChat
Webhook
Email
WeChat Work
Blackbox Exporter
Consul
Graphite
Memcached
MySQL
Node Exporter
+41 more

Independently observed

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Docker or Prometheus: which one depends on you

A composite score cannot know your constraints. Describe them and both get re-weighted against what you actually need, with the evidence behind every position.

Free to run, no account needed to start. How the evaluation works

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.