8gears Container Registry vs Cosmoner Container Registry

8gears Container Registry manages container images and OCI artifacts through a hardened enterprise distribution of Harbor, built and maintained by Harbor project maintainers and contributors. It supports project organization, replication, proxying, quotas and retention policies. Identity options include OIDC, LDAP, SAML 2.0, group synchronization, fine-grained RBAC and workload identity federation. Security features include Trivy vulnerability scanning, content trust and signing, SSL/TLS encryption, and encrypted storage at rest. Teams can use vulnerability overviews, SBOM, audit trails and image policies for supply-chain visibility. It can run as hosted SaaS, on a customer's cloud, or self-hosted on Kubernetes, including on-premise and air-gapped deployments. Managed cloud options include AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Exoscale and StackIT. The free Individuals plan costs nothing and includes 1 GB of storage and unlimited private repositories. Dedicated is billed monthly, with price not displayed, and lists 1000 GB storage. Enterprise pricing is custom.

Cosmoner Container Registry is a managed private registry backed by Amazon ECR for storing container images used by apps. Developers can push and pull images from a laptop or CI system with Docker and a Cosmoner API key. Images in a project registry appear in the Apps image deployment flow, where deployments authenticate without a pull secret. Scanning on push is enabled by default and checks images against known vulnerabilities. Images use AES256 encryption by default, with a customer KMS key available for repositories created afterward. Retention settings can keep a selected number of recent images and expire untagged images after a chosen number of days. Repositories are private by default; public repositories require a monthly egress cap and revert to private when it is reached. The product lists nine regions across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific, and a registry’s region cannot be changed after creation. Uploads are not charged; egress, storage, and a registry fee are billed separately. The registry fee is $1 a month, prorated from creation; storage is $0.25 a month per GB, and egress is $0.15 a month per GB after the first 10 GB per organization per billing period.