Alibaba Cloud Container Registry
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Alibaba Cloud Container Registry, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Alibaba Cloud Container Registry's own pricing page, checked 22 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Enterprise Basic Edition | Priced on request | 15 namespaces · 1,000 public repositories · 250 pull QPS · 3 concurrent build tasks |
| Enterprise Advanced Edition | Priced on request | 50 namespaces · 5,000 public repositories · 1,000 pull QPS · 10 concurrent build tasks |
| Personal Edition | Free | 3 namespaces · 300 public repositories · 1 concurrent build · pull throughput not guaranteed · no SLA · Free of charge; public preview |
| Enterprise Edition Advanced | Priced on request | 50 namespaces · 5,000 public repositories · 1,000 pull QPS · 99.95% SLA · 10 concurrent builds · P2P and on-demand distribution · Subscription; price varies by region and instance type |
| Enterprise Edition Basic | Priced on request | 15 namespaces · 1,000 public repositories · 250 pull QPS · 99.95% SLA · 3 concurrent builds · Subscription; price varies by region and instance type |
The facts
Each one read from Alibaba Cloud Container Registry's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- API
- ACR exposes OpenAPI version 2018-12-01 with public endpoints in the form cr.{regionId}.aliyuncs.com and VPC endpoints in the form cr-vpc.{regionId}.aliyuncs.com.checked 15 Oct 2026
- API extensibility
- Developers can self-sign API requests when SDKs are insufficient, although Alibaba warns that implementing the signing mechanism is complex and may take about five business days.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Artifact formats
- Enterprise editions support multi-architecture Linux, Windows and Arm images, Helm Charts v2/v3 and OCI-compliant artifacts.checked 15 Oct 2026
- CI/CD integrations
- The product can build images from Alibaba Cloud Code, GitHub or Bitbucket repositories and integrates with Alibaba Container Service, CodePipeline and YunXiao.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Deployment integration
- Integration with Alibaba Container Service can automatically redeploy applications when new images become available.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Documentation depth
- The documentation includes product comparisons, quotas, security guides, integration instructions, API operation references and product announcements.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Encryption
- Alibaba Cloud states that Enterprise Edition images are encrypted at rest in OSS using AES-256 server-side encryption.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Global distribution
- Enterprise Advanced adds global synchronization, peer-to-peer distribution and on-demand lazy pulling for large deployments.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Image lifecycle
- The service manages images across their lifecycle and provides image download URLs for internet, intranet and VPC users in different regions.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Image signing
- Enterprise Advanced supports namespace-level automatic signing with Alibaba Cloud KMS and signature verification in ACK through kritis-validation-hook.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Licence
- Alibaba describes ACR as based on open-source technologies and compatible with DevOps tools, but the managed ACR service page specifies no open-source licence.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: account verification and support
- Trustpilot reviewers report rejected or slow identity verification, difficult account closure, billing surprises and unresponsive support across Alibaba Cloud services.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: documentation
- G2 reviewers complain that documentation is lacking and that English coverage is incomplete.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Limit: setup experience
- G2 category data shows Alibaba Container Registry's ease-of-setup score at 1.7/10, far below the 8.1/10 category average.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Managed service model
- ACR is delivered as Alibaba Cloud infrastructure rather than a self-hostable registry package; the product page describes it as fully managed and gives no self-hosting distribution.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Network controls
- Enterprise editions can restrict access to selected VPCs and CIDR ranges and record image operations in ActionTrail.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Notable news
- Alibaba's Container Registry announcement log lists a May 2026 Personal Edition network-link upgrade and an April 2026 change to passwordless image pulling.checked 15 Oct 2026
- PeerSpot coverage
- PeerSpot reports 0.1% container-registry mindshare and says it has not collected any reviews for Alibaba Container Registry.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Permission management
- ACR provides centralized image-permission controls for sharing images without exposing them outside intended boundaries.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Personal Edition limitation
- Personal Edition is public preview, free and intended for development or testing; Alibaba says it has no SLA or compensation and should not be used in production.checked 15 Oct 2026
The company
- Company founded
- LinkedIn states Alibaba Cloud was founded in 2009.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company headquarters
- LinkedIn lists Alibaba Cloud headquarters in Hangzhou, China.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company ownership
- G2 identifies the seller as Alibaba and lists ownership ticker BABA.checked 15 Oct 2026
- Company size
- LinkedIn classifies Alibaba Cloud as having 10,001 or more employees and shows about 5,326 employees on its page.checked 15 Oct 2026
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