Depot vs Volcengine Container Registry

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.

Volcengine Container Registry stores OCI-compliant artifacts, including container images and Helm charts, and provides tools to manage their lifecycle. Users can push, pull, and clean up images with Docker, Nerdctl, or Helm. Image scans can report vulnerabilities, malicious or unexpected files, and possible remediation. The service also supports IAM policies for user authorization and resource-level permissions. Standard Edition instances can use server-side image encryption when enabled at creation. Standard Edition can replicate images and Helm charts across instances, regions, and repositories, with up to five enabled rules per account. Proxy caches can draw from Docker Hub, GHCR, and self-hosted Docker registries. The registry integrates with Volcengine Kubernetes Engine for internal-network image pulls, and Standard Edition supports P2P acceleration for large cluster pulls. Micro Edition provides five namespaces and 500 GiB of storage; Standard Edition provides 50 namespaces and unlimited namespace storage by default. A free Trial Edition costs nothing, but is quota-limited and cannot expand its quota. Subscription prices listed for Chinese mainland are 50 CNY a month for Micro Edition and 1,349 CNY a month for Standard Edition, per instance.