DigitalOcean Container Registry

Store and manage your private container images in a registry co-located with DigitalOcean Kubernetes clusters

Also known as
digitalocean-container-registry

What is DigitalOcean Container Registry?

A managed container image registry fully integrated with the Docker CLI for building and rapid deployment. Provides private repositories with Role-Based Access Control, HTTPS encryption in transit, and encryption at rest.

Independently observed

DigitalOcean Container 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.

Pricing as of verify at live pricing ↗Independently observed
from $0.02/moSubscriptionFree tier

From free to $20/month. Free tier available.

Starter

Free
Free
storage
500 MiB
repositories
1
  • 1 repository
  • 500 MiB storage

Basic

$5/month + $0.02/GiB overage
storage
5 GiB
repositories
5
  • 5 repositories
  • 5 GiB storage
  • $0.02/GiB overage

Professional

$20/month + $0.02/GiB overage
storage
100 GiB
repositories
Unlimited
  • Unlimited repositories
  • 100 GiB storage
  • $0.02/GiB overage

What DigitalOcean Container 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.

Deployment
Hosting
Cloud only
Standards
OCI Distribution Spec compliant
-
Scope
Artifact types
Container images only
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
-
UX
Web UI / console
-
Ops
High-availability deployment
-
Independently observed

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Platforms
  • CLI
Deployment
  • Cloud / SaaS

DigitalOcean Container Registry alternatives

Other container registries we track, ranked by the same independent score.

Independent · unbought · dated

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 DigitalOcean Container Registry, not the verdict.

Balanced composite 61 / 100
low · 21%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Capabilities4614.00641.4
Pricing Transparency1006.00600.0
Reliability508.00400.0
Price Level804.00320.0
Integrations08.000.0-
Security Posture526.000.0-

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

AttributeValueEvidence
Capabilities{"rbac":true,"hosting":"cloud","private_repos":true,"artifact_types":"images"}mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
Modelcommercialmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 70%
Price levellowmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
Starting gbp0.02mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
TransparentYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Reliability

AttributeValueEvidence
Status pageYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Security

AttributeValueEvidence
Disclosure policyYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
DigitalOcean Container Registry: pricing, features & alternatives · Vioscale