Azure Container Registry
Read the same way at every company size.
The standing depends on who is buying. Every model is asked the same questions for each company size.
GitHub Packages is first at 50%.
Sonatype Nexus Repository is first at 28%. 0 of 14 models made it the first choice when asked directly.
JFrog Artifactory is first at 51%.
Why models recommend it
“Best default for most mid-sized B2B companies: AWS ECR, ACR, or Artifact Registry depending on your cloud.”GPT-5.4 mini · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Top Recommendation: Azure Container Registry (ACR) or GitHub Container Registry (GHCR)”Kimi K2 · Paraphrase question · first choice
“Cloud provider registries (ECR, ACR, GAR) | Recommended – built-in security features”MiniMax M2.5 · Negative question · first choice
“AWS ECR, GCR, Azure ACR - Cloud provider registries with built-in security”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Negative question · first choice
What gives them pause
“you should still: Ensure they are properly configured and not publicly exposed unless necessary.”Mistral Small · Negative question · warning
“Not to be *avoided*, but cautious about relying on them as your only registry.”DeepSeek V4 Flash · Negative question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Azure Container Registry, over the 104 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 89 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 80 | 6 | Compare → | |
| 79 | 28 | Compare → | |
| 76 | 19 | Compare → | |
| 71 | 0 | View → | |
| 38 | 6 | Compare → | |
| 37 | 3 | Compare → | |
| 34 | 2 | View → | |
| 32 | 2 | View → | |
| 26 | 2 | Compare → |
What the models named instead of Azure Container Registry →
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Azure Container Registry's own site, not checked by Gane.
- Also from Azure
- Azure ACR, Azure AD Conditional Access, Azure AD Graph API, Azure AI Document Intelligence, Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Gateway and 81 more
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 90 of the 104 answers that named Azure Container Registry and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
250 of the 268 domain citations in answers naming Azure Container Registry came from a third party's page. Eighteen were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Kimi K2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 3 |