# Quay.io alternatives: what AI models name instead, October 2026

IT AI Recommendation Index, October 2026 Edition. 250 of the 252 answers in the 1 category where Quay.io holds a standing named it neither first nor as an alternative; these are the first choices those answers made. Page: https://it-ai-index.com/vendors/quay-io/alternatives/

## Named instead, most often (every category and segment added)

- JFrog Artifactory: 55
- GitHub Packages: 32
- Sonatype Nexus Repository: 26
- Google Artifact Registry: 14
- Azure Container Registry: 13
- Amazon Elastic Container Registry: 9

## Artifact and container registries

**Small business**: 84 of 84 answers did not name Quay.io.

- GitHub Packages: first choice in 32 of those 84
- GitLab Package Registry: first choice in 7 of those 84
- Docker Hub: first choice in 4 of those 84
- Harbor: first choice in 4 of those 84
- JFrog Artifactory: first choice in 4 of those 84
- Sonatype Nexus Repository OSS: first choice in 4 of those 84
- DigitalOcean Container Registry: first choice in 3 of those 84
- Sonatype Nexus Repository: first choice in 3 of those 84

**Mid-market**: 82 of 84 answers did not name Quay.io (Quay.io is #15 of 16 at 0%).

- JFrog Artifactory: first choice in 11 of those 82
- Sonatype Nexus Repository: first choice in 7 of those 82
- Amazon Elastic Container Registry: first choice in 6 of those 82
- Azure Container Registry: first choice in 6 of those 82
- Google Artifact Registry: first choice in 6 of those 82
- Amazon ECR: first choice in 5 of those 82
- Cloudsmith: first choice in 5 of those 82
- AWS ECR: first choice in 4 of those 82

**Enterprise**: 84 of 84 answers did not name Quay.io.

- JFrog Artifactory: first choice in 40 of those 84
- Sonatype Nexus Repository: first choice in 16 of those 84
- Google Artifact Registry: first choice in 8 of those 84
- Azure Container Registry: first choice in 7 of those 84
- AWS ECR: first choice in 3 of those 84
- Amazon Elastic Container Registry: first choice in 3 of those 84
- Artifactory: first choice in 2 of those 84
- Harbor: first choice in 2 of those 84

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