Depot vs Quay

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.

Quay is an open-source registry for building, organizing, distributing, and deploying container images and OCI artifacts. It offers a web interface with private repositories and controls over who can view or change content. You can run it as a standalone component or as an Operator on OpenShift Container Platform; Kubernetes deployments are also supported. Clair scans images for known vulnerabilities and can suggest remediation. For distribution, Quay supports repository mirroring, multi-region replication with client failover, and disconnected environments. CI/CD and Git-compatible integrations, including GitHub, GitLab, and Bitbucket, can automate builds and deployments. An OAuth 2 REST API supports registry management and task automation. Security capabilities include TLS, isolated builds, team and organization role-based access, and encryption of sensitive fields at rest and at runtime. The open-source community distribution costs nothing under an Apache 2 license. Deployments require image storage, a database, and Redis; local image storage is intended only for proof-of-concept or test installations.