8gears Container Registry vs Inedo ProGet

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.

Inedo ProGet is a package and container repository for teams that need a central place to manage software packages and Docker images. It supports formats including NuGet, PyPI, Conda, npm, Ruby Gems, Maven, Chocolatey, PowerShell/DSC, RPM/Yum, Debian/apt, and Alpine/APK. Teams can cache upstream packages, set approval workflows, scan for vulnerabilities, identify licenses, and block packages that fail their requirements. ProGet can host private Docker registries and scan container contents to help control which images reach production. It integrates with CI/CD tools and includes a CLI and HTTP API for component identification and SBOM publishing. Deployment options include self-hosted Windows or Linux installations and cloud VM or container environments. Identity and operational features include LDAP, SAML, load balancing, high availability, and feed replication for disaster recovery. The free edition permits commercial use and unlimited feeds for private packages and Docker, but has limited security and compliance features. Paid annual plans start at $2,395/year. Licensing is per server, and test or development installations require separate licenses.