Learn about the new Docker subscriptions

The customer is required to pay for the total number of authorized users to a paid subscription plan. Customers have the flexibility to adjust the actual users in the system to access the products as long as the total number of authorized users is consistent with the paid user count.

Once a subscription is active, Docker will automatically provision and activate the account for the customer to access each of the products. Detailed instructions for accessing different products will be updated on November 15th, 2024.

Yes. By default, once the subscription is active, the users of a subscription plan will have access to all products. At the same time, the owners or admins of a subscription plan can disable a service in the admin console. Detailed instructions for disabling services will be updated on November 15th, 2024

For small companies with fewer than 250 employees AND less than $10M in revenue, Docker will continue to offer free usage of Docker Desktop only under a coming program.

For the sale-led purchase, an invoice will be issued to the customers at the end of the monthly billing cycle when on-demand consumption is incurred.

Anonymous and Docker Personal users using Docker Hub will experience rate limits on image pull requests. For authenticated Users, there is a 40 pull/hour rate limit per User; for unauthenticated usage, there is a 10 pull/hour rate limit per IP address.

For more information on image pull rates and how to manage and optimize your usage, please visit https://docs.docker.com/docker-hub/download-rate-limit/, which will be updated on November 15th, 2024 with this corresponding set of changes.

Docker counts image pulls from every User or any automated system that is part of a Docker Hub organization. The consumption is calculated by aggregating pulls from all users of all organizations which are part of a subscription plan.

The included image pull count is also applied at the subscription level towards all usage across all users of all Hub organizations under a subscription plan.

The subscription plan has restrictions on the storage space used by all private repositories under a subscription plan.

Private repository storage billed in a month is based on the storage used throughout the month per namespace. We measure your storage usage in “TimedStorage-ByteHrs,” which are accumulated throughout the month to determine your monthly charges. The total hours are calculated based on the actual number of days in the month. Any storage usage beyond the included amounts in each subscription tier will be charged at an on-demand rate.

For more information on storage space usage, please check out the Hub documentation page on November 15th, 2024.

For customers who have not yet pre-purchased additional capacity and exceed the limits of their subscriptions, on-demand charges will apply automatically. These charges are at a slightly higher rate than pre-purchased capacity.

• Monitor usage in real-time: Docker Hub provides a dashboard where you can track your current usage of image pulls and storage. This dashboard will show you how many image pulls have been made and how much storage has been used relative to the limits of the plan.

Estimate Future Needs

• Analyze historical data: Look at usage patterns over the past few months to estimate how much will likely be needed in the future. If your usage is increasing, plan for higher consumption.
• Consider upcoming use cases: If you have new projects or expect increased activity, factor that into your estimates for future consumption.

Plan for Peak Usage

• Account for peak periods: If your usage varies significantly (e.g., you have peak periods of activity), consider buying more to cover these times without exceeding your limits.

Calculate Additional Needs

• image Pulls: If you know your average number of pulls per month and anticipate an increase, calculate the difference between your expected usage and your current plan’s limit. Purchase additional pulls in increments that match or slightly exceed this difference.
• Storage: Calculate how much additional storage you’ll need based on the size of your repositories and any new content you plan to store. Buy storage in increments that align with your expected growth.

The in-product notification will also be available to provide similar alert information, and it will come at a later time after the initial launch of the new pricing.

As of November 15th, 2024, Docker will no longer offer Service Accounts as an add-on. Existing Service Account agreements will be honored until their current term expires, but new purchases or renewals of Service Accounts will not be available and customers will need to renew under a new subscription plan.

Docker recommends transitioning to Organizational Access Tokens (OATs), which can provide similar functionality under the new pricing model.

The Docker Sponsored Open Source program will continue on as is, including all resources described in the docs page: https://docs.docker.com/trusted-content/dsos-program/

A key benefit of our DSOS program has always been fewer restrictions on rate limits for those projects that qualify. This will continue to be the case and we will be expanding DSOS resources to ensure ongoing coverage as new projects become popular.

Looking to apply to join DSOS? The program is ideal for developers working on projects without a path to commercialization: https://www.docker.com/community/open-source/application/

Please visit https://scout.docker.com/settings/repos. The repositories view provides real-time data on how many Scout-enabled repositories you have used compared to your plan’s limit.

If you currently have more repositories enabled for Docker Scout than your subscription limit allows, there is a modal within scout.docker.com that will prompt you to upgrade your plan to a Team or Business plan for unlimited repo analysis.

Customers with pre-purchased minutes can go over their prepaid consumption. When this happens, you will receive an additional invoice at the end of the monthly billing cycle, with the outstanding amount due for additional seats or minutes.

1. Users can see the estimated usage on the https://app.testcontainers.cloud/dashboard/billing page
2. We send monthly invoices that contain the number of worker minutes/seats used in the previous month.