# Google Artifact Registry vs Pulp

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Google Artifact Registry

| Attribute | Google Artifact Registry | Pulp |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 65.9 (54% (medium)) | 49.2 (45% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | - | 61 |
| adoption.dependent_repos | - | 65 |
| adoption.github_stars | - | 609 |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"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. It is indexed under Container Registries.","source":"https://cloud.google.com/artifact-registry","question":"What is Google Artifact Registry?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Google Artifact Registry offers a free tier, so you can start without paying. Paid plans are also available: Storage, Data Transfer and Vulnerability Scanning. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://cloud.google.com/artifact-registry","question":"Is Google Artifact Registry free?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed browser-based access to Google Artifact Registry. That is the extent of what we could verify from public sources, so it may well offer desktop or mobile clients we have not indexed.","source":"https://cloud.google.com/artifact-registry","question":"What platforms does Google Artifact Registry support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have only confirmed a cloud / SaaS deployment for Google Artifact Registry, so it appears to be vendor-hosted. If a self-hosted option exists we have not found it documented publicly.","source":"https://cloud.google.com/artifact-registry","question":"Can Google Artifact Registry be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Google Artifact Registry is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.","source":"https://cloud.google.com/artifact-registry","question":"Where is Google Artifact Registry available?","confidence":0.75}]` | `[{"answer":"Pulp enables developers and operators to fetch, upload, organize, and distribute software packages across on-premises infrastructure or cloud environments. It supports multiple content types through a plugin architecture and provides tools for repository management at scale. It is indexed under Container Registries.","source":"https://pulpproject.org","question":"What is Pulp?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Pulp is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the GPL-2.0 licence. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://pulpproject.org","question":"Is Pulp free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Pulp supports a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://pulpproject.org","question":"What platforms does Pulp support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Pulp can be deployed cloud / SaaS, on-premise and self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://pulpproject.org","question":"Can Pulp be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have independently confirmed GDPR for Pulp. Certifications we do not list are ones we have not been able to verify from public sources, which is not the same as Pulp not holding them. Always confirm compliance directly before you rely on it.","source":"https://pulpproject.org/help/more/governance/privacy/","question":"What security certifications does Pulp have?","confidence":0.7},{"answer":"Yes. Pulp is published under the GPL-2.0 licence, a copyleft licence, so check its terms before embedding it in a closed-source product. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/pulp/pulpcore","question":"Is Pulp open source?","confidence":0.95},{"answer":"Pulp is available worldwide. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.","source":"https://pulpproject.org","question":"Where is Pulp available?","confidence":0.75}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true}` | `{"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | Pulp is an open-source platform that enables you to mirror, host, and manage repositories of software packages and content. It allows you to organize content promotion across multiple repositories and enforce access controls through flexible content guards. |
| features.capabilities | `{"rbac":true,"web_ui":true,"hosting":"cloud","private_repos":true,"artifact_types":"universal","cloud_iam_native":true}` | `{"rbac":true,"web_ui":true,"hosting":"both","sbom_support":false,"image_signing":false,"oci_compliant":true,"private_repos":true,"artifact_types":"universal","cloud_iam_native":false,"pull_rate_limits":"none","high_availability":false,"pull_through_cache":false,"replication_mirroring":true,"vulnerability_scanning":false}` |
| integrations.count | - | 2 |
| integrations.list | - | `[{"name":"OpenAI API"},{"name":"GitHub"}]` |
| language.primary | - | Python |
| license.spdx | - | GPL-2.0 |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"usage","plans":[{"free":true,"name":"Storage","summary":"Free 0–0.5 GiB/mo; $0.000136986/GiB/hr above","features":["Regional repositories","Multi-regional repositories","Standard and remote repositories"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"gibibyte"},"kind":"metered","amount":0.000136986,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"At-rest artifact storage","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"storage":"0.5 GiB/month free"}},{"free":true,"name":"Data Transfer","summary":"$0–$0.15/GiB depending on region; free within same location/continent","features":["Free same-location transfers","Free same-continent transfers","Metered cross-region pricing"],"commitment":"monthly","components":[{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"gibibyte"},"kind":"metered","note":"US/Canada inter-region","amount":0.01,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"gibibyte"},"kind":"metered","note":"Europe inter-region","amount":0.02,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"gibibyte"},"kind":"metered","note":"Asia inter-region","amount":0.05,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"gibibyte"},"kind":"metered","note":"Cross-continent","amount":0.08,"currency":"USD"},{"per":{"qty":1,"unit":"gibibyte"},"kind":"metered","note":"Oceania","amount":0.15,"currency":"USD"}],"description":"Outbound traffic from repositories","contactSales":false,"includedLimits":{"data_transfer_free":"Same location, same continent"}},{"free":false,"name":"Vulnerability Scanning","summary":"See Artifact Analysis pricing documentation","features":["Automatic vulnerability scanning","On-Demand Scanning"],"commitment":"monthly","description":"Automatic and on-demand container scanning","contactSales":false}],"summary":"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.","currency":"USD","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://cloud.google.com/artifact-registry","retrievedAt":"2026-08-05T13:22:08.459Z","billingPeriods":["month"]}` | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://pulpproject.org","retrievedAt":"2026-08-16T21:32:46.974Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | free | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | free | free |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.history | - | `[{"url":"https://github.com/pulp/pulpcore/releases/tag/3.122.2","date":"2026-10-15T19:15:35Z","type":"stable","version":"3.122.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/pulp/pulpcore/releases/tag/3.122.1","date":"2026-10-15T14:18:39Z","type":"stable","version":"3.122.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/pulp/pulpcore/releases/tag/3.118.3","date":"2026-10-15T19:36:43Z","type":"stable","version":"3.118.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/pulp/pulpcore/releases/tag/3.105.23","date":"2026-10-15T19:16:18Z","type":"stable","version":"3.105.23"},{"url":"https://github.com/pulp/pulpcore/releases/tag/3.122.0","date":"2026-10-14T16:36:25Z","type":"stable","version":"3.122.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/pulp/pulpcore/releases/tag/3.105.22","date":"2026-10-14T15:42:29Z","type":"stable","version":"3.105.22"},{"url":"https://github.com/pulp/pulpcore/releases/tag/3.85.32","date":"2026-10-14T15:42:53Z","type":"stable","version":"3.85.32"},{"url":"https://github.com/pulp/pulpcore/releases/tag/3.118.2","date":"2026-10-13T16:00:17Z","type":"stable","version":"3.118.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/pulp/pulpcore/releases/tag/3.121.3","date":"2026-10-09T19:53:11Z","type":"stable","version":"3.121.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/pulp/pulpcore/releases/tag/3.121.2","date":"2026-10-08T15:45:41Z","type":"stable","version":"3.121.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/pulp/pulpcore/releases/tag/3.121.1","date":"2026-10-08T10:00:44Z","type":"stable","version":"3.121.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/pulp/pulpcore/releases/tag/3.121.0","date":"2026-10-06T15:24:30Z","type":"stable","version":"3.121.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/pulp/pulpcore/releases/tag/3.105.21","date":"2026-10-01T14:19:40Z","type":"stable","version":"3.105.21"},{"url":"https://github.com/pulp/pulpcore/releases/tag/3.120.0","date":"2026-09-29T14:56:40Z","type":"stable","version":"3.120.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/pulp/pulpcore/releases/tag/3.119.2","date":"2026-09-29T14:18:14Z","type":"stable","version":"3.119.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/pulp/pulpcore/releases/tag/3.73.45","date":"2026-09-24T08:43:01Z","type":"stable","version":"3.73.45"},{"url":"https://github.com/pulp/pulpcore/releases/tag/3.49.71","date":"2026-09-24T08:44:30Z","type":"stable","version":"3.49.71"},{"url":"https://github.com/pulp/pulpcore/releases/tag/3.119.1","date":"2026-09-23T14:33:29Z","type":"stable","version":"3.119.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/pulp/pulpcore/releases/tag/3.119.0","date":"2026-09-23T10:32:05Z","type":"stable","version":"3.119.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/pulp/pulpcore/releases/tag/3.105.20","date":"2026-09-23T14:33:40Z","type":"stable","version":"3.105.20"}]` |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.vulnerabilities | - | `{"count":2,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=pypi&package_name=pulpcore&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":"HIGH"}` |

## Capabilities (Container Registries)

| Capability | Google Artifact Registry | Pulp |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Deployment** |  |  |
| Hosting | Cloud only | Cloud + self-hosted |
| **Standards** |  |  |
| OCI Distribution Spec compliant | - | ✓ |
| **Scope** |  |  |
| Artifact types | Universal (images + language packages) | Universal (images + language packages) |
| **Security** |  |  |
| Built-in vulnerability scanning | - | ✗ |
| Image signing (Cosign/Notation) | - | ✗ |
| SBOM generation / storage | - | ✗ |
| **Access** |  |  |
| Fine-grained RBAC / robot accounts | ✓ | ✓ |
| Private repositories | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Distribution** |  |  |
| Geo-replication / mirroring | - | ✓ |
| Pull-through cache / proxy | - | ✗ |
| **Integration** |  |  |
| Native cloud IAM integration | ✓ | ✗ |
| **Pricing** |  |  |
| Pull-rate limits | - | None |
| **UX** |  |  |
| Web UI / console | ✓ | ✓ |
| **Ops** |  |  |
| High-availability deployment | - | ✗ |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T21:46:50.257Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*