Every category where a model named Azure Container Registry for a mid-market B2B company. Share is first choices across the direct, paraphrase, budget and scale prompts; rank is within every product named in that category.

Category	Function	Share	Rank	Negative rate	Labels	Quadrant	Since September 2026
Artifact and container registries	Developer platform	5%	7 of 89	3%	33	accepted challenger

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for Azure Container Registry yet. From the next edition this section shows, per buyer segment and per category, whether its share moved by more than the measured noise floor.

By model

How each model treated Azure Container Registry across every prompt where it was named for a mid-market B2B company. Fourteen models, six prompts per category.

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Model	First choice	Alternative	Mention	Negative	Labels
Claude Haiku 4.5	0	1	1	0	2
GPT-5.4 mini	0	1	1	0	2
Gemini 3.5 Flash	0	2	0	0	2
Perplexity Sonar	0	0	0	0	0
Grok 4.1 Fast	2	0	1	0	3
Mistral Small	1	2	0	0	3
DeepSeek V4 Flash	0	1	1	1	3
Llama 4 Maverick	0	0	0	0	0
Qwen 3.7 Flash	1	1	1	0	3
Kimi K2	1	1	2	0	4
GLM 4.7 FlashX	0	3	0	0	3
MiniMax M2.5	2	1	0	0	3
GPT-6 Luna	0	2	0	0	2
Muse Glimmer 30B	0	2	1	0	3

By framing

Which of the six questions produced the naming. By model says how often; this says asked what. The first-choice count on the right carries the marks of the models that produced it.

FramingLabels by classFirst choices

Direct0 labelsNone

Paraphrase31 labels8

Comparative33 labelsNone

Budget-constrained0 labelsNone

Scale-constrained3 labelsNone

Negative24 labels7not counted in share

First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative91 labels in all, every segment counted; 8 of the 15 first choices count toward share, since the comparative and negative framings do not. The bar is one segment per label class, to scale within the framing.

What the models said for it

Verbatim evidence the judge attached to positive labels.

“Tier 1 (Trusted): Enterprise Private Registries (AWS ECR, Google GCR/AAR, Azure ACR) configured with RBAC and Scanning.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Artifact registries · negative prompt · first choice

“Prefer private/managed registries: Use AWS ECR, Google Artifact Registry, Azure Container Registry (ACR)” Grok 4.1 Fast · Artifact registries · negative prompt · first choice

“Private registries: AWS ECR, Azure Container Registry, Google Artifact Registry” MiniMax M2.5 · Artifact registries · negative prompt · first choice

“or Azure Container Registry if you're already in the Azure ecosystem” MiniMax M2.5 · Artifact registries · paraphrase prompt · first choice

And against it

Verbatim evidence attached to negative labels. A warning on a product with few labels is a warning; on a product with many, it is one voice among them.

“Critical security concern discovered Dec 2024” DeepSeek V4 Flash · Artifact registries · negative prompt · soft negative

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as Azure Container Registry, over the 91 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and Azure Container Registry was named but was not.

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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head

Google Artifact Registry75 of 915Not among the top eight

Harbor70 of 914Not among the top eight

JFrog Artifactory62 of 9116Compare →

Docker Hub60 of 914Not among the top eight

GitHub Packages52 of 9116Compare →

Amazon Elastic Container Registry31 of 914Compare →

AWS ECR28 of 910Not among the top eight

Amazon ECR25 of 915Compare →

Sonatype Nexus Repository24 of 912Compare →

GitLab Container Registry17 of 911Not among the top eight

A head-to-head page exists where both products are among a category's top eight. The other rows are the same fact without a page behind them, so they link to the product instead.

What carried it into the answer

The sites and pages cited by the answers that named Azure Container Registry. A fact about retrieval, not a lever on the model.

Citations exist only for the models that return a source list, five of the fourteen in this edition, so these counts come from 81 of the 91 answers that named Azure Container Registry and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

blog.railway.com37

ciopages.com32

tech-insider.org28

learn.microsoft.com27

daily.dev26

harness.io26

docs.cloud.google.com24

g2.com24

guptadeepak.com21

jfrog.com21

No domain is on file for Azure Container Registry, so its own site is not marked.

Pages cited

blog.railway.com/p/best-container-registries-202637

ciopages.com/buyer-guides/container-registry-artifact-management32

tech-insider.org/ecr-vs-acr-vs-artifact-registry-202626

guptadeepak.com/tools/top-8-container-registries-202621

daily.dev/blog/top-9-container-registries-2024-how-to-choose19

paloaltonetworks.com/cyberpedia/container-registry-security16

distr.sh/blog/container-image-registry-comparison15

parse.gl/prompts/p/best-artifactcontainer-registry-across-clouds--a0e4540f-a716-4a19-b5e4-15

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where Azure Container Registry stands in Google search beside where it stands in the models' answers.

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In search

Google, US estimates

Searches for its name, Google: 880 a month (“azure container registry”)
AI search demand for its name, est.: 56 a month
Its own site: No site of its own on file, so no site figures

In answers

This edition

Share of first choices

rank 7 of 89 in artifact registries

Segment leader

14%

JFrog Artifactory

First choices: 8 across its categories
Named in: 91 answers
Its own site cited: No site on file to match

Search figures are US estimates from DataForSEO, read October 5, 2026; AI search demand is its modeled, directional estimate, not a count of queries to any assistant. The answers are this edition's. Two measurements side by side: neither is read as the cause of the other.

Names read as Azure Container Registry

What the judge wrote, as written, with how often. The vendor table decides that these count as Azure Container Registry; a claim can dispute any of them.

Azure Container Registry (ACR) 21Azure ACR 2

Follow Azure Container Registry

An email the morning each edition publishes: where this product moved, where it held, and by how much against the noise floor. One address, confirmed by a click; a stop link in every email.

Already following? Everything you follow, with a stop for each.

The company

Azure is the company behind Azure Container Registry.

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On record

Company records

Also from Azure: Azure ACR, Azure AD Conditional Access, Azure AD Graph API, Azure AI Document Intelligence, Azure AI Foundry, Azure AI Gateway, Azure AI Search, Azure API Management and 79 more

Is this your product?

Claim this page

Claiming is free and changes nothing in the data. A claimed page shows a verified contact who is told when each edition publishes and when Azure Container Registry's standing changes by more than the noise floor; the right to propose corrections to the vendor table, meaning names the judge wrote that should or should not read as Azure Container Registry, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

What a new claim receivesHide what a new claim receives

A new claim receives the current edition's vendor brief for Azure Container Registry by email, built from the raw record of the edition. It shows:

where Azure Container Registry is named, by buyer and by framing, and which cells hold its first choices;
the claims the models make when they name it, ranked, with the strongest and the weakest quoted;
its vocabulary against the segment leader's, and the pages the models cited;
who was chosen in the answers that did not name Azure Container Registry, and every reason the record gives;
a battlecard for each top rival: the head-to-head split, why they win, and the reservation quoted against them;
one page of published figures cleared to show a buyer.