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Google Artifact Registry (incl. the gcr.io domain)
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- Free allowance
- 0.5 GiB-month, once per billing account, shared across every project on it: 'Artifact Registry Storage | 0 gibibyte month to 0.5 gibibyte month | $0.00 (Free) / 1 gibibyte hour, per 1 month / account'; above that $0.000136986/GiB-hour (~$0.10/GiB-month).
- Verdict
- fails: egressdata cannot be read back out at a usable rate or price
- Cost
- free tier
- Identity
- cardcard required, no phone
- Binding limit
- noneno named constraint binds
- Evidence
- reported7 sources; a third party said so
- Freshness
- stale on 2026-11-05checked 2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-05
| Free tier | 0.5 GiB-month, once per billing account, shared across every project on it: 'Artifact Registry Storage | 0 gibibyte month to 0.5 gibibyte month | $0.00 (Free) / 1 gibibyte hour, per 1 month / account'; above that $0.000136986/GiB-hour (~$0.10/GiB-month). The page explicitly closes the multi-project loophole: 'Pricing applies to billing accounts, not individual Google Cloud projects ... the limit for the storage free tier is for total usage across all the attached projects.' unit GiB; metered on stored-bytes |
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| Price | none stated |
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| Identity | card Billing signup requires a credit card or other payment method; the Free Tier needs a Google Cloud billing account, which a new user gets by signing up for a Free Trial. |
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| Egress | NOT free — this is the clearest egress failure among the three hyperscalers: 'Pricing for outbound Internet data transfer is based on Premium tier pricing. This is network traffic leaving a repository to a client that is not a Google product, such as using a local server that is downloading artifacts.' Intra-Google traffic is $0.00, and same-continent repository-to-service moves are $0.00, but anything to the open internet is metered at Google's premium internet egress rates. There is no anonymous or public-repo egress allowance. |
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| Per-object cap | not stated |
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| Retention | not stated |
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| Interface | oci oci |
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| Tooling | docker/ORAS/gcloud artifacts; gcr.io domain repositories are billed as Artifact Registry. |
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| Composes with | 0.5 GiB per billing account is not worth chaining; a second billing account requires a second payment instrument. |
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| Reliability | Stable, but the free tier is effectively decorative and the egress meter is the hard wall. |
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| Parsed numbers | |
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Evidence 7
More fields 1
| dead end | {"failure_class": "quota","why": "0.5 GiB-month, once per billing account, shared across every project on it: 'Artifact Registry Storage | 0 gibibyte month to 0.5 gibibyte month | $0.00 (Free) / 1 gibibyte hour, per 1 month / account'; above that $0.000136986/GiB-hour (~$0.10/GiB-month). The page explicitly closes the multi-project loophole: 'Pricing applies to billing accounts, not individual Google Cloud projects ... the limit for the storage free tier is for total usage across all the attached projects.'","retry_when": null,"first_recorded": "2026-10-21"} |
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Unknown values 4
- per object cap notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- per object cap stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention notes: the field may be stated in a source that was not read
- retention stated: the field may be stated in a source that was not read