Google Artifact Registry vs Harbor
No clear leader: Google Artifact Registry (65.9) and Harbor (65.8) 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.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for container registries. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Google Artifact Registry
A cloud-based package manager that stores, secures, and distributes various types of build artifacts, including container images and language-specific packages, with support for multiple package formats and registries.
Harbor
A self-hosted Docker Distribution extension that provides centralized storage for container images and Helm charts with integrated security features including image signing, vulnerability scanning, user authentication, access control, and cross-registry replication.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Google Artifact Registry
Usage-based. Free tier: 0.5 GiB storage/month. Metered storage $0.000136986/GiB/hr, data transfer $0–$0.15/GiB, vulnerability scanning per Artifact Analysis docs.
- StorageFree
- Regional repositories
- Multi-regional repositories
- Standard and remote repositories
- Data TransferFree
- Free same-location transfers
- Free same-continent transfers
- Metered cross-region pricing
- Vulnerability ScanningSee Artifact Analysis pricing documentation
- Automatic vulnerability scanning
- On-Demand Scanning
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
Google Artifact Registry
Not documented yet.
Harbor
- Trivy
- Cosign
- Redis
- Valkey
- LDAP
- Active Directory
- Docker
- Helm
Google Artifact Registry or Harbor: 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.