Google Artifact Registry
A hosted repository service for organizing and managing build artifacts and package dependencies across multiple formats
- Also known as
- google-artifact-registry
Available worldwide · Popular in: US
What is 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.
Google Artifact 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.
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.
Storage
FreeAt-rest artifact storage
- storage
- 0.5 GiB/month free
- Regional repositories
- Multi-regional repositories
- Standard and remote repositories
Data Transfer
FreeOutbound traffic from repositories
- data_transfer_free
- Same location, same continent
- Free same-location transfers
- Free same-continent transfers
- Metered cross-region pricing
Vulnerability Scanning
Automatic and on-demand container scanning
- Automatic vulnerability scanning
- On-Demand Scanning
What Google Artifact 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
- Universal (images + language packages)
- 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
- -
- Web UI / console
- ✓
- High-availability deployment
- -
Platform & deployment
Independently observed- Web
- Cloud / SaaS
Google Artifact Registry FAQ
Common questions about Google Artifact Registry, answered from independent, dated evidence.
What is 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. It is indexed under Container Registries.
Is Google Artifact Registry free?
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.
What platforms does Google Artifact Registry support?
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.
Can Google Artifact Registry be self-hosted?
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.
Where is Google Artifact Registry available?
Google Artifact Registry is available worldwide. Its primary market is the United States. The vendor is headquartered in the United States.
Google Artifact Registry alternatives
Other container registries we track, ranked by the same independent score.
- HarborOpen-source container image registry with built-in security, signing, and vulnerability scanning for cloud-native environmentshigh · 78%
- Docker HubA central registry for storing, managing, and sharing container images with your team and the broader developer communityhigh · 75%
- CloudsmithUniversal registry platform with integrated security scanning for managing artifacts across your software supply chainmedium · 52%
- Azure Container RegistryHosted storage for containerized application imagesmedium · 53%
- CNCF DistributionA cloud-hosted registry for discovering, publishing, and managing containerized applicationsmedium · 67%
- Chainguard RegistryContainer images and open source packages maintained without known vulnerabilitiesmedium · 73%
Compare Google Artifact Registry
Side by side against other container registries, attribute by attribute, with a source on every value.
The vioscaleAI 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 Google Artifact Registry, not the verdict.
| Signal | Score | Weight | Contribution | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing transparency | 80 | 0.04 | 3.3 | ✓ |
| Price level | 100 | 0.03 | 2.7 | ✓ |
| Reliability | 50 | 0.05 | 2.7 | ✓ |
| Capabilities | 67 | 0.04 | 2.6 | ✓ |
| Integrations | 0 | 0.04 | 0.0 | - |
| Security posture | 0 | 0.18 | 0.0 | - |
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Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.
Content
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Faq | 5 items | mediumsource · 2026-09-10 · 63% |
Features
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Capabilities | Rbac: Yes · Web ui: Yes · Hosting: cloud · Private repos: Yes · Artifact types: universal · Cloud iam native: Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-14 · 60% |
Market
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Availability | HqCountry: US · PrimaryMarkets: … · AvailabilityScope: global · AvailableCountries: … · NotAvailableCountries: … | highsource · 2026-08-05 · 75% |
Pricing
Reliability
| Attribute | Value | Evidence |
|---|---|---|
| Status page | Yes | mediumsource · 2026-08-05 · 60% |
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