Cloud Containers Pricing Comparison (2026)
Container services range from fully managed Kubernetes clusters to serverless container platforms. Pricing depends on cluster management fees, node instance costs, and per-vCPU/memory charges. 3 services tracked with real pricing data.
Containers Services by Provider
| Service | AWS | Azure | GCP | DO | Hetzner | Linode | OCI | Vultr |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Managed Kubernetes | EKS From $0.0283/hr 100 tiers | AKS From $0.0073/hr 10 tiers | GKE From $0.0000/hr 187 tiers | DOKS From $0.0000/hr 2 tiers | - | LKE From $0.0000/hr 3 tiers | OKE From $0.0150/hr 2 tiers | VKE From $0.0000/hr 2 tiers |
| Container Registry | ECR From $0.0200/hr 36 tiers | Container Registry From $0.0001/hr 12 tiers | Artifact Registry From $0.0100/hr 19 tiers | - | - | - | - | - |
| Container Instances | - | Container Instances From $0.0000/hr 16 tiers | - | - | - | - | - | - |
Containers Service Details
AWSEKS
100 pricing tiers · From $20.64/mo
AzureAKS
10 pricing tiers · From $5.34/mo
GCPGKE
187 pricing tiers · From $0.00/mo
DODOKS
2 pricing tiers · From $0.00/mo
LinodeLKE
3 pricing tiers · From $0.00/mo
OCIOKE
2 pricing tiers · From $10.95/mo
VultrVKE
2 pricing tiers · From $0.00/mo
AWSECR
36 pricing tiers · From $14.60/mo
AzureContainer Registry
12 pricing tiers · From $0.07/mo
GCPArtifact Registry
19 pricing tiers · From $7.30/mo
AzureContainer Instances
16 pricing tiers · From $0.01/mo
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