google artifact registry (as a blob store)
Sibling records disagree:
- verdict:
storage/google-artifact-registry-2says fails-egress, storage/google-artifact-registry-3 says fails-quota
- Free allowance
- 0.5 GiB-month of Artifact Registry storage free per billing account, shared across every project attached to it; above that USD 0.000136986 per GiB-hour
- Verdict
- fails: quotathe free allowance is too small to matter
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- volume-quota0.5 GiB-month of storage free per billing account, shared across every attached project
- Evidence
- documented36 sources; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-12-01checked 2026-10-31 (inherited); stale on 2026-12-01
| Free tier | 0.5 GiB-month of Artifact Registry storage free per billing account, shared across every project attached to it; above that USD 0.000136986 per GiB-hour unit GiB; metered on stored-bytes; the Google Cloud Free Tier page states the same allowance as 0.5 GB of storage per month |
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| Price | none stated |
| Limits |
storage above the free band is billed at USD 0.000136986 per GiB-hour, so the volume quota is a price threshold, not a hard stop |
| Binding | volume-quota the 0.5 GiB-month of free storage per billing account is the whole free tier; every byte above it is billed |
| Identity | card the free tier needs a Google Cloud billing account; billing signup takes a credit card or other payment method, and in some countries a bank account verification |
| Egress | outbound internet transfer from a repository is billed at Premium Tier internet rates; transfer into Google Cloud is free; transfer to a Google Cloud service in the same location is free, and between locations in the US and Canada it is USD 0.01 per GiB; no free outbound allowance is stated for Artifact… |
| Per-object cap | unverified: the Artifact Registry quotas page lists request quotas and usage limits but no size cap for a stored file |
| Retention | unverified: the pricing, quotas and generic artifact pages state no expiry for stored artifacts |
| Interface | rest, cli, oci generic repositories: upload with POST https://artifactregistry.googleapis.com/upload/v1/projects/PROJECT/locations/LOCATION/repositories/REPOSITORY/genericArtifacts:create, download with GET https://artifactregistry.googleapis.com/download/v1/projects/PROJECT/locations/LOCATION/repositories/REPOSITORY/files/FILE:download?alt=media, or gcloud artifacts generic upload and download; Docker-format repositories store OCI images |
| Tooling | gcloud artifacts generic upload and download, or any HTTP client against the REST upload and download endpoints; Docker clients for Docker-format repositories |
| Composes with | projects do not multiply the allowance: the 0.5 GiB-month of free storage is counted once per billing account, across every project attached to it |
| Reliability | usage above the 0.5 GiB-month of free storage is billed at standard rates to the billing account, not stopped |
| Notes | Artifact Registry generic repositories hold versioned, immutable files of any format. The free tier is 0.5 GiB-month of storage per billing account; above it storage costs USD 0.000136986 per GiB-hour, and outbound internet transfer is billed at Premium Tier rates. The Cloud Storage Archive storage class is a separate product with its own pricing page. |
| Evidence note | documented every value was read on Google Cloud pages; no billing account was opened, so no value is measured |
| Parsed numbers |
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Evidence 36
| date | source | what it proved |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-21 | cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features | 0.5 GB/month free. |
| 2026-10-31 | cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/pricing | Artifact Registry storage is free from 0 to 0.5 GiB-month per billing account and USD 0.000136986 per GiB-hour above |
| 2026-10-31 | cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/pricing | the free storage band is stated in gibibytes |
| 2026-10-31 | cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/pricing | the storage charge and its free band meter bytes at rest |
| 2026-10-31 | cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/pricing | the product pricing page states the free band and the price above it |
| 2026-10-31 | cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features | the Google Cloud Free Tier gives Artifact Registry 0.5 GB of storage a month |
| 2026-10-31 | cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features | Google Cloud billing signup takes a credit card or other payment method |
| 2026-10-31 | cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features | billing signup takes a card or other payment method, and in some countries a bank account verification |
| 2026-10-31 | cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/pricing | outbound internet transfer from a repository is priced at Premium Tier rates |
| 2026-10-31 | cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/pricing | part of the text of Notes, above |
| 2026-10-31 | cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/docs/generic | generic artifacts are uploaded through a REST endpoint; the page also documents gcloud artifacts generic upload and download |
| 2026-10-31 | cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/docs/generic | generic artifacts are downloaded through a REST endpoint; the same page gives the upload endpoint |
| 2026-10-31 | cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/docs/generic | the generic artifact page documents the REST upload endpoint and the gcloud artifacts generic commands |
| 2026-10-31 | cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/pricing | the free storage limit is shared by every project attached to one billing account |
| 2026-10-31 | cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/pricing | the free storage band is 0.5 GiB-month per billing account |
| 2026-10-31 | cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/quotas | each project may make 18,000 write requests a minute in a region or multi-region; the same table gives 60,000 requests a minute |
| 2026-10-31 | cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/pricing | storage above 0.5 GiB-month is billed at USD 0.000136986 per GiB-hour |
| 2026-10-31 | cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/pricing | the free tier is a storage volume band |
| 2026-10-31 | cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/pricing | storage is free to 0.5 GiB-month and billed above |
| 2026-10-31 | cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/quotas | the only size limit in the usage limits table is on upstream retrieval by a remote repository, not on a stored file |
| 2026-10-31 | cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/quotas | the quotas page is where Artifact Registry publishes its size limits |
| 2026-10-31 | cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/quotas | a remote repository retrieves at most 9.9 GB from its upstream per request |
| 2026-10-31 | cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/quotas | deletion is driven by cleanup policies; the usage limits table states no expiry |
| 2026-10-31 | cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/quotas | cleanup policies delete at most 300,000 artifacts per repository a day; the same table allows 10 policies per repository |
| 2026-10-31 | cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/quotas | the quotas page states the cleanup policy limits |
| 2026-10-31 | cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features | usage above a Free Tier limit is billed, not stopped |
| 2026-10-31 | cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/pricing | Artifact Registry storage is free to 0.5 GiB-month per billing account and USD 0.000136986 per GiB-hour above |
| 2026-10-31 | cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/pricing | the free tier is read on the first-party pricing page |
| 2026-10-31 | cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/pricing | the values are read on first-party pages |
| 2026-10-31 | cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/pricing | the free tier is 0.5 GiB-month per billing account, so the verdict fails-quota stands |
| 2026-10-31 | cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features | the Artifact Registry free tier needs a Google Cloud billing account |
| 2026-10-31 | cloud.google.com/billing/docs/how-to/create-billing-account | creating a self-serve billing account verifies a payment card with a pre-authorization hold |
| 2026-10-31 | cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/docs/supported-formats | generic repositories store files in no package format, which is the blob-store use |
| 2026-10-31 | cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/docs/supported-formats | part of the text of Interface, above |
| 2026-10-31 | cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/quotas | each project may make 60,000 requests a minute in a region or multi-region |
| 2026-10-31 | cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/quotas | a repository holds at most 10 cleanup policies |
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| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "0.5 GB/month free.","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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