Artifact and container registries · November 2026 Edition
Amazon ECR vs Azure Container Registry
Zero of fourteen models named Amazon ECR first on the direct prompt; zero named Azure Container Registry. Amazon ECR was named by ten of the fourteen models and Azure Container Registry by fourteen and Amazon ECR carries 14 labels and Azure Container Registry 35, so the shares are not directly comparable.
Amazon ECR
accepted challengerNamed in one category this edition.
Azure Container Registry
accepted challengerNamed in one category this edition.
First-choice share8%5%Of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts, 0 to 100.
Negative rate7%6%Negative labels as a share of the product's labels, 0 to 100.
Rank in category#3#6A position in a field of 15; printed, not drawn.
Labels1435A count; the two differ.
The two percentage rows are drawn on one 0 to 100 track, Amazon ECR reading right to left. Rank and label count are printed, not drawn.JFrog Artifactory was named alongside these two in twelve of the fourteen direct answers. Sonatype Nexus Repository vs Amazon ECR · Sonatype Nexus Repository vs Azure Container Registry · JFrog Artifactory vs Amazon ECR
Share is the count of first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts over all fourteen models, for a mid-market B2B company; rank is within the category; every quote names the model and the prompt it came from. Both figures come from the artifact and container registries page.
By framing
How many of the fourteen models made each the first choice, per way of asking, and how many argued against it.
Amazon ECRFirst choices, of fourteen modelsAzure Container Registry
Direct00
Paraphrase53
Comparative00
Budget-constrained00
Scale-constrained00
Negative031 against Amazon ECR · 2 against Azure Container Registry
Bars are first choices, 0 to 14 each sideModels that argued againstA model can name both, so the two sides of a row do not sum to fourteen.
Across every category in the November 2026 Edition, Amazon ECR and Azure Container Registry were named in the same answer thirty-eight times, of the 44 answers naming Amazon ECR and the 104 naming Azure Container Registry. In those answers Azure Container Registry took the first choice one time and Amazon ECR six.
Every model, every framing
The eighty-four answers behind the chart above, one cell each: where Amazon ECR and Azure Container Registry stood in it.
| Model | DirectAEAC | ParaphraseAEAC | ComparativeAEAC | Budget-constrainedAEAC | Scale-constrainedAEAC | NegativeAEAC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | AC | |||||
| GPT-5.4 mini | AEAC | |||||
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | AC | AC | ||||
| Perplexity Sonar | AEAC | AEAC | ||||
| Grok 4.20 | AC | AC | ||||
| Mistral Small | AC | AEAC | ||||
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | AE | AC | AC | |||
| Llama 4 Maverick | ||||||
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | AC | AEAC | AEAC | AC | ||
| Kimi K2 | AC | AC | AC | |||
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | AC | AC | ||||
| MiniMax M2.5 | AE | AC | AC | |||
| GPT-6 Luna | AEAC | AEAC | ||||
| Muse Glimmer 30B | AEAC | AC |
AE Amazon ECRAC Azure Container RegistryAE first choiceAE named as an alternativeAE argued againstblank: not namedEach cell is one answer, Amazon ECR on the left and Azure Container Registry on the right.
The direct prompt
The plain question, one answer per model, grouped by where Amazon ECR and Azure Container Registry stood in it.
Neither was the first choice, one was named
1 of 14 modelsThe answer put something else first and named one of the two as an alternative.Qwen 3.7 FlashJFrog Artifactory alternatives: AWS ECR, Azure Container Registry, GitLab Package Registry, Google Artifact Registry, Sonatype Lifecycle
Neither was named
13 of 14 modelsThe answer made no first choice from these two in this category.Claude Haiku 4.5Artifactory, Nexus Repository alternatives: AWS CodeArtifact, GitHub Packages, GitLab Package Registry
GPT-5.4 miniSonatype Nexus Repository alternatives: AWS CodeArtifact, JFrog Artifactory
Gemini 3.5 FlashGitHub Packages, GitLab Package Registry alternatives: AWS CodeArtifact, Azure Artifacts, Cloudsmith, ECR, JFrog Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus Repository
Perplexity SonarCloudsmith alternatives: AWS CodeArtifact, GitHub Packages, JFrog Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus Repository
Grok 4.20JFrog Artifactory alternatives: AWS CodeArtifact, Azure Artifacts, Cloudsmith, GHCR, GitHub Packages, Harbor, ProGet, Sonatype Lifecycle
Mistral SmallJFrog Artifactory alternatives: AWS CodeArtifact, Azure Artifacts, Cloudsmith, Google Artifact Registry, Harbor, Sonatype Nexus Repository
DeepSeek V4 FlashGitHub Packages, JFrog Artifactory alternatives: AWS CodeArtifact, Azure Artifacts, Cloudsmith, Google Artifact Registry, Sonatype Nexus Repository
Llama 4 MaverickJFrog Artifactory alternatives: Amazon Elastic Container Registry, GitHub Packages, Google Artifact Registry, Sonatype Nexus Repository
Kimi K2Sonatype Nexus Repository alternatives: Cloudsmith, GitHub Packages
GLM 4.7 FlashXSonatype Nexus Repository alternatives: Harbor, JFrog Artifactory
MiniMax M2.5Sonatype Nexus Repository alternatives: AWS CodeArtifact, GitHub Packages, Google Artifact Registry, JFrog Artifactory
GPT-6 LunaCloudsmith alternatives: AWS CodeArtifact, JFrog Artifactory, Sonatype Nexus Repository
Muse Glimmer 30BJFrog Artifactory alternatives: Cloudsmith, Sonatype Nexus Repository
Bold names in an answer are the products the judge labeled a first choice; a model naming several gives each of them that label. The full answer text for every row is in the record.
By buyer segment
The same question asked on behalf of a different buyer. Each standing is computed within its segment and they are never added together. The figures above are the mid-market standing, which is the one the category orders by.
Small business
Amazon ECR leads by three points.
Amazon ECR3%#5 of 13
Azure Container Registry0%#11 of 13
The full small business standing →Mid-marketThe figures above
Amazon ECR leads by three points.
Amazon ECR8%#3 of 15
Azure Container Registry5%#6 of 15
The full mid-market standing →Enterprise
The order flips: Azure Container Registry leads at enterprise.
Azure Container Registry7%#3 of 16
Amazon ECR2%#7 of 16
The full enterprise standing →What the models said about Amazon ECR
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Four of five in this category shown.
“you should still: Ensure they are properly configured and not publicly exposed unless necessary.” Mistral Small · negative prompt · soft negative
“AWS workloads: Amazon ECR. It supports image scanning, lifecycle cleanup, and cross-account or cross-region replication.” GPT-6 Luna · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Primarily AWS, ECS/EKS/Fargate today → start with Amazon ECR for zero egress pull costs inside AWS and IAM-native access.” Muse Glimmer 30B · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Best default for most mid-sized B2B companies: AWS ECR, ACR, or Artifact Registry depending on your cloud.” GPT-5.4 mini · paraphrase prompt · first choice
What the models said about Azure Container Registry
Every negative label with a quote, up to three, then the highest-weighted positives, up to three. Five of six in this category shown.
“you should still: Ensure they are properly configured and not publicly exposed unless necessary.” Mistral Small · negative prompt · soft negative
“Not to be *avoided*, but cautious about relying on them as your only registry.” DeepSeek V4 Flash · negative prompt · soft negative
“Best default for most mid-sized B2B companies: AWS ECR, ACR, or Artifact Registry depending on your cloud.” GPT-5.4 mini · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Top Recommendation: Azure Container Registry (ACR) or GitHub Container Registry (GHCR)” Kimi K2 · paraphrase prompt · first choice
“Cloud provider registries (ECR, ACR, GAR) | Recommended – built-in security features” MiniMax M2.5 · negative prompt · first choice
Also compared
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Comparisons are drawn for the top eight products in each category, each against each. The output is the models' output; nothing here is a recommendation by the index.