# Google Container Registry: how AI models rank it, November 2026

Gane Index, November 2026 Edition. Named in 2 judge labels across 1 category by 2 of 14 models. Page: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/vendors/google-container-registry

## Standing by category

| Category | Share | Rank | Negative rate | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| [Artifact and container registries](https://www.gane.ai/index/it/developer/artifact-and-container-registries/index.md) | 0% | 81 | 100% | 2 |

## And against it

- "Google officially shut down GCR in favor of Google Cloud Artifact Registry (`*.pkg.dev`). Pushing and pulling images from `gcr.io` legacy buckets is unavailable." (Gemini 3.5 Flash, Artifact registries)
- "Google’s older container registry product. Google recommends Artifact Registry instead." (GPT-5.4 mini, Artifact registries)

## By model

| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |

## Sources returned with these answers

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Google Container Registry, from 10 of the 10 answers that named it (only the models that return a source list).

### Domains cited

- docs.cloud.google.com: 5 (its own site)
- docs.docker.com: 4
- ciopages.com: 3
- container-registry.com: 3
- guptadeepak.com: 3
- paloaltonetworks.com: 3
- csoonline.com: 2
- docs.aws.amazon.com: 2
- elyclover.com: 2
- gane.ai/index: 2

### Pages cited

- https://docs.cloud.google.com/artifact-registry/docs/transition/transition-from-gcr: 4
- https://ciopages.com/buyer-guides/container-registry-artifact-management: 3
- https://container-registry.com/compare: 3
- https://guptadeepak.com/tools/top-8-container-registries-2026: 3
- https://paloaltonetworks.com/cyberpedia/container-registry-security: 3
- https://csoonline.com/article/575157/thousands-of-misconfigured-container-and-artifact-registries-expose-sensitive-credentials.html: 2
- https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub/usage/pulls: 2
- https://elyclover.com/posts/gcr-to-gar-transition: 2

## Record

- Method: https://www.gane.ai/index/it/methodology
- License: CC BY 4.0. Cite as Gane Index, November 2026 Edition, www.gane.ai/index/it.