Chainguard Registry
The trusted source for open source
- Also known as
- chainguard-registry
What is Chainguard Registry?
Hardened, secure-by-design container images, language libraries, and VM images built from source with CVE remediation SLAs and AI attack prevention. Includes 2,500+ projects and 520K+ images.
Chainguard Registry pricing
Plans, per-tier features and add-ons, dated and linked to live pricing. Pricing changes often; always verify at source before you rely on it.
Free tier with 5 images, or subscription from $19K/year for full catalog access
Free Images
FreeUp to five container images per organization for testing and production deployment
- images
- 5 per organization
- Five images of choice, including previous versions
- Continuously built from source in SLSA L3 hardened infrastructure
- Sigstore signed artifacts with full build-time SBOMs and digital attestations
- Unlimited pulls with no metering
Per Image
Contact salesLicensed by number and type of images (base, application, AI/ML, FIPS)
- Scoped production deployments per image
- Contractual CVE SLA (7 days critical, 14 days high/medium/low)
- All upstream supported versions including major/minor tags
- STIG-hardened and FIPS-validated images available
- Custom Assembly tooling and access to 10K+ packages
- EOL Grace Period updates for up to 6 months
- Console-based user management
Catalog
Contact salesLicensed by engineering organization size with full access to complete image catalog
- Full access to 2,000+ images and growing
- Contractual CVE SLA
- Ability to request net new images at no additional cost
- All upstream supported versions
- Continuous updates from source in SLSA L3 hardened infrastructure
- Console to manage images, entitlements, and pull tokens
What Chainguard Registry does
The capabilities that matter for container registries, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.
- Hosting
- Cloud only
- OCI Distribution Spec compliant
- -
- Artifact types
- Container images only
- Built-in vulnerability scanning
- ✓
- Image signing (Cosign/Notation)
- ✓
- SBOM generation / storage
- ✓
- Fine-grained RBAC / robot accounts
- ✓
- Private repositories
- -
- Geo-replication / mirroring
- -
- Pull-through cache / proxy
- -
- Native cloud IAM integration
- -
- Pull-rate limits
- None
- Web UI / console
- ✓
- High-availability deployment
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Chainguard Registry alternatives
Other container registries we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- Docker HubFind and share container images with your teamlow · 28%
- Harborlow · 18%
- CloudsmithCloud-Native Artifact Management Platformlow · 39%
- DistributionStateless, highly scalable open-source container image registry serverlow · 3%
- Google Artifact Registrylow · 21%
- DigitalOcean Container RegistryStore and manage your private container images in a registry co-located with DigitalOcean Kubernetes clusterslow · 21%
The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence
Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Chainguard Registry, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Security Posture | 55 | 26.00 | 1430.0 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 75 | 14.00 | 1046.1 | ✓ |
| Pricing Transparency | 80 | 6.00 | 480.0 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 8.00 | 400.0 | ✓ |
| Price Level | 80 | 4.00 | 320.0 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 8.00 | 0.0 | - |
Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.
All data & sourcesshow ↓
Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | {"rbac":true,"web_ui":true,"hosting":"cloud","sbom_support":true,"image_signing":true,"artifact_types":"images","pull_rate_limits":"none","vulnerability_scanning":true} | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60% |