Quay.io public repositories

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Quay.io public repositories (Red Hat) Storage

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Free tier	"We offer unlimited storage and serving of public repositories" — Red Hat's own support article. Every paid plan is priced only by private-repo count and lists 'Unlimited public repos'; a free account gets unlimited public repos, private repos require a 30-day trial then a paid plan. unit unlimited; metered on stored-bytes
Price	none stated
Per-object cap	not stated
Retention	Every paid plan is priced only by private-repo count and lists 'Unlimited public repos'; a free account gets unlimited public repos, private repos require a 30-day trial then a paid plan (30 days)
Egress	Included in 'unlimited storage and serving of public repositories' — no per-GB line item exists for public repos on any plan. Served over quay.io's own CDN edge.
Identity	anonymous derived from the record's prose, not from an identity field, and no signup was executed: are free to create. Requires a Red Hat SSO account to push (anonymous pull only). Quay is a shared hosted registry: pull QPS and total storage are subject to undisclosed fair use; the paid
Binding	none no constraint in the record binds at this scale; the record carries no limit of a kind the vocabulary names
Interface	oci oci
Tooling	oras push / docker push / skopeo; standard distribution-spec v2 registry (Docker-Distribution-API-Version: registry/2.0). Cosign/notation signing supported natively.
Composes with	N public repos x N free Red Hat accounts. Repos are namespaced per user/org, so one account already gives effectively unbounded blob count; orgs are free to create.
Reliability	Hosted multitenancy means a noisy-neighbour throttle is possible but not documented; no data-expiry policy on public repos, so blobs persist indefinitely.
Notes	"We offer unlimited storage and serving of public repositories" — Red Hat's own support article. Every paid plan is priced only by private-repo count and lists 'Unlimited public repos'; a free account gets unlimited public repos, private repos require a 30-day trial then a paid plan.
Evidence rung	reported One page read moves it to documented.
Checked	2026-10-21 (inherited); stale on 2026-11-04

Evidence (4)

date	source	what it proved
2026-10-21	access.redhat.com/articles/quayio-help	read live: 'Can I use Quay for free? Yes! We offer unlimited storage and serving of public repositories.'
2026-10-21	quay.io/plans/	read live: every tier lists 'Unlimited public repos'; Developer is $15/mo for 5 private repos, i.e. no free private tier, 30-day trial only
2026-10-21	quay.io/v2/	probe: GET -> 401 with WWW-Authenticate: Bearer realm="https://quay.io/v2/auth",service="quay.io" (correct challenge); then GET https://quay.io/v2/prometheus/busybox/manifests/latest -> 200, 736 bytes anonymous
2026-10-21	quay.io/v2/probe/blobs/uploads/	probe: POST -> 404 (anonymous write refused)

Unknown or withheld values (4)

$.free_tier.notes process
$.per_object_cap.notes not-extracted
$.per_object_cap.stated not-extracted
$.retention.notes not-extracted

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