The cloud native ecosystem is moving rapidly—registries and their feature sets are no exception. We’ve made our best effort to survey the container registry landscape and compare to our core feature set.

This table is maintained by contributions from the Harbor community. If you find something outdated or outright erroneous, please submit a PR and we’ll fix it right away.

Feature	Harbor	Docker Trusted Registry	Quay	Cloud Providers (GCP, AWS, Azure)	Docker Distribution	Artifactory	GitLab
Ability to Determine Version of Binaries in Containers	✓	✓	✓	✗	✗	?	?
Artifact Repository (rpms, git, jar, etc)	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✓	partial
Audit Logs	✓	✓	✓	✓	✗	✓	✓
Content Trust and Validation	✓	✓	✗	✗	partial	partial	✗
Custom TLS Certificates	✓	✓	✓	✗	✓	✓	✓
Helm Chart Repository Manager	✓	✗	partial	✗	✗	✓	✗
LDAP-based Auth	✓	✓	✓	partial	✗	✓	✓
Local Auth	✓	✓	✓	✓	✗	✓	✓
Metrics	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓
Multi-Tenancy (projects, teams, namespaces, etc)	✓	✓	✓	partial	✗	✓	✓
Open Source	✓	partial	✓	✗	✓	partial	partial
Project Quotas (by image count & storage consumption)	✓	✗	✗	partial	✗	✗	✗
Replication between instances	✓	✓	✓	n/a	✗	✓	✗
Replication between non-instances	✓	✗	✓	n/a	✗	✗	✗
Robot Accounts for Helm Charts	✓	✗	✗	?	✗	✗	✗
Robot Accounts for Images	✓	?	✓	?	✗	?	?
Role-Based Access Control	✓	✓	✓	✓	✗	✓	✗
Single Sign On (OIDC)	✓	✓	✓	✓	✗	partial	✗
Tag Retention Policy	✓	✗	✓	✗	✗	✗	✗
Upstream Registry Proxy Cache	✓	✓	✗	✗	✓	✓	✗
Vulnerability Scanning & Monitoring	✓	✓	✓	✗	✗	✓	partial
Vulnerability Scanning Plugin Framework	✓	✗	✓	✗	✗	✗	✗
Vulnerability Allowlisting	✓	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗	✗
Webhooks	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓	✓