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GitLab Container Registry

21Judge labels
0First choices
2Negative labels
11 / 14Models named it
1Category
October 2026 Edition. Every number here is derived from the raw labels under vendor table v2026-10.8, every buyer segment counted.
Standing
6 labels, too few to rank
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share or quadrant is stated. GitLab Container Registry was named 6 times in Artifact registries, where JFrog Artifactory led with 14%. The labels and the evidence are below, counted exactly.
By buyer segmentRead the same way at every buyer size.
In artifact registries · each standing computed within its segment · bars are 0 to 100 · the accent bar is the product's own best reading

Standing by category

Every category where a model named GitLab 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.
CategoryFunctionShareRankNegative rateLabelsQuadrantSince September 2026
Artifact and container registriesDeveloper platform0%25 of 890%6under 10 labels · led by JFrog Artifactory at 14%

Movement

This is the first edition on this tier, so no move can be computed for GitLab 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 GitLab 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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ModelFirst choiceAlternativeMentionNegativeLabels
Claude Haiku 4.500000
GPT-5.4 mini00000
Gemini 3.5 Flash01001
Perplexity Sonar00000
Grok 4.1 Fast00000
Mistral Small01001
DeepSeek V4 Flash00000
Llama 4 Maverick00000
Qwen 3.7 Flash01001
Kimi K201001
GLM 4.7 FlashX01001
MiniMax M2.500101
GPT-6 Luna00000
Muse Glimmer 30B00000

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
Direct1 labelNone
Paraphrase4 labelsNone
Comparative8 labelsNone
Budget-constrained0 labelsNone
Scale-constrained4 labelsNone
Negative4 labels1not counted in share
First choiceAlternativeMentionNegative21 labels in all, every segment counted; 0 of the 1 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.

“Private registries | Harbor, GitLab Container Registry, cloud-native (ECR, GCR, ACR) with strict access controls” Kimi K2 · Artifact registries · negative prompt · alternative
“For cloud-native teams: GitHub Packages or GitLab Container Registry.” Mistral Small · Artifact registries · scale prompt · alternative
“Integrated with GitLab CI/CD, same repo UI, good for Git‑centric teams” GLM 4.7 FlashX · Artifact registries · comparative prompt · alternative
“Drawback: Vendor lock-in makes switching providers difficult later.” Qwen 3.7 Flash · Artifact registries · paraphrase prompt · alternative

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.

No model argued against it.

Named alongside

The products named in the same answers as GitLab Container Registry, over the 21 answers that named it. Took the first choice instead counts the answers where the other product was the first choice and GitLab Container Registry was named but was not.
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ProductSame answerTook the first choice insteadHead to head
GitHub Packages20 of 214Not among the top eight
Harbor19 of 211Not among the top eight
Azure Container Registry17 of 211Not among the top eight
JFrog Artifactory16 of 218Not among the top eight
Google Artifact Registry14 of 211Not among the top eight
Docker Hub8 of 211Not among the top eight
Sonatype Nexus Repository7 of 211Not among the top eight
Amazon Elastic Container Registry6 of 213Not among the top eight
AWS ECR6 of 210Not among the top eight
Cloudsmith5 of 210Not 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 GitLab 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 16 of the 21 answers that named GitLab Container Registry and are not a share of its labels.

Domains cited

harness.io8
ciopages.com7
parse.gl7
blog.railway.com6
g2.com6
jfrog.com6
container-registry.com5
gitnux.org5
guptadeepak.com5
pickmysoft.com5

Sixty of the sixty domain citations in answers naming GitLab Container Registry came from somebody else's page.

Pages cited

Pages are listed as the models cited them.

Search and answers

Where GitLab 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
390 a month (“gitlab container registry”)
AI search demand for its name, est.
19 a month
Its own site
It sits on GitLab's site (gitlab.com), so there are no site figures for it alone

In answers

This edition
Share of first choices
0%
rank 25 of 89 in artifact registries
Segment leader
14%
JFrog Artifactory
First choices
0 across its categories
Named in
21 answers
Its own site cited
in 16 of the answers that named it

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.

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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.

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The company

GitLab is the company behind GitLab Container Registry.
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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 GitLab 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 GitLab Container Registry, applied by version and listed in the change log; and a one-line description supplied by the vendor and marked as such.

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

  • where GitLab 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 GitLab 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.
The subscriber app

A verification link goes to your work email; an address at gitlab.com is approved on the spot, any other is reviewed by hand. Your email is never published. Claiming gives no say over labels, shares, verdicts or which quotes appear.