8gears Container Registry vs Depot

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.

Depot provides software delivery tools spanning source control, builds, CI runners, sandboxes, caches, and registries. Its container build service is a drop-in replacement for Docker builds, with persistent caching and native x86 and Arm support. Depot CI runs existing GitHub Actions workflows as a programmable, debuggable CI service, while Depot Registry is an OCI-compliant registry for builds, pull-through caching, and other artifacts. Integrations include GitHub Actions, CircleCI, GitLab CI, Google Cloud Build, Travis CI, Bitbucket Pipelines, Buildkite, Jenkins, and AWS CodeBuild. Cache integrations cover Bazel, Go, Gradle, Maven, Pants, sccache, Nx, and Turborepo. Each build and CI run is isolated in a dedicated virtual machine. Depot says communications use TLS and storage is encrypted at rest; it also identifies SOC 2 Type 2 compliance and time-bound, permission-based debugging access. Plans start at $20 a month, billed monthly, with a 7-day trial and no free plan. Developer includes community support; Business includes Slack Connect support.