GitLab Container Registry

Free allowance: The registry is excluded from the 10 GiB namespace repository quota; no separate free cap is published
Verdict: caveatusable, with a named limit or an unprobed read path
Cost: free tier
Identity: emailno card, no phone
Binding limit: request-raterequests per unit of time
Evidence: documented1 source; a first-party page was read and the sentence quoted
Freshness: stale on 2026-11-23checked 2026-10-23 (live); stale on 2026-11-23

Free tier	the registry is excluded from the 10 GiB namespace repository quota; no separate free cap is published unit unlimited; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Limits	per-object-cap storage above the namespace purchased amount is billed; the registry is excluded from the 10 GiB repository quota source the 10 GiB figure that circulates is the repository quota and not the registry quota; the two are different limits and the comparison literature conflates them
Identity	email a GitLab account
Egress	no egress charge is published; storage is what is metered
Per-object cap	no separate published cap; storage above the namespace's purchased amount is billed
Retention	tags expire per the project's cleanup policy if one is configured; nothing expires by default
Interface	oci, rest the OCI distribution API at registry.gitlab.com; docker login with a deploy token or CI job token
Tooling	docker, podman, skopeo
Composes with	the only free registry here that does not count image layers against the same quota as the code
Reliability	no reliability event recorded
Notes	An exclusion is not an allowance. The doc says the registry does not count against 10 GiB; it does not say the registry is free, and no separate free figure is published.
Evidence note	documented the storage-quota doc was read and states the exclusion.
Parsed numbers	per-object-cap 10 GiB

Evidence 1

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-22	docs.gitlab.com/user/storage_usage_quotas/	the container registry is excluded from the namespace repository storage quota

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