Atera vs Docker Pricing (2026)
How do these two stack up on price? Here's what each one costs, what you get, and where the value sits.
Professional
- AI copilot
- Remote monitoring and alerts
- Remote management
- Splashtop (up to 2 concurrent sessions)
- Patch management
- Software management
- Azure AD integration
- Audit log (1 month retention)
- Support address (1 custom)
- Service portal
- File view and transfer (up to 15GB per month)
- Mobile app (iOS and Android)
Expert
Popular- Splashtop concurrent sessions (unlimited)
- Remote access using AnyDesk
- 11 preset reports
- Ticket auto-tagging
- Custom asset types (up to 5)
- File view and transfer (up to 50GB per month)
- Audit log (6 months retention)
- Support addresses (2 custom)
Master
- Custom analytics reports (up to 10)
- Custom asset types (up to 20)
- Audit log (12 months retention)
- Custom support addresses (unlimited)
- File view and transfer (up to 80GB per month)
- Data recovery
Enterprise
- Single sign-on (SSO)
- Azure AD continuous sync
- Private software repository
- Custom domain SSL for service portal
- Network Discovery
- Custom reports (unlimited)
- Audit log (7 year retention)
- Log out all sessions
- Script-based custom fields
- Business Associate Agreement (BAA) under HIPAA
- Custom asset types (unlimited)
- File transfer (up to 100GB per month)
- 99.9% uptime SLA*
Docker Personal
- Docker Desktop
- Docker Engine + Kubernetes
- Docker Hub
- Docker Scout
- Docker Debug
- 1 user
- 1 Docker Scout-enabled repo*
- 100 Docker Hub pulls/hr*
- 1 private Docker Hub repo
- Docker Build Cloud and Testcontainers Cloud free trial
Docker Pro
- Docker Build Cloud
- Testcontainers Cloud
- Synchronized File Shares
- Visibility into Docker Scout health scores
- 5 business day support response
- 1 user
- 2 Docker Scout-enabled repos
- Unlimited Docker Hub pull rate
- 200 Docker Build Cloud build minutes**
- 100 Testcontainers Cloud runtime minutes**
Docker Team
Popular- Add users in bulk
- Audit logs
- Docker Hub role-based access control
- 2 business day support response
- Up to 100 users
- Unlimited Docker Scout-enabled repos
- Unlimited Docker Hub pull rate
- Unlimited private Docker Hub repos
- 500 Docker Build Cloud build minutes**
- 500 Testcontainers Cloud runtime minutes**
- 10 Organization access tokens
- 1 Docker Hub organization
Docker Business
- Hardened Docker Desktop
- Single Sign-On (SSO)
- SCIM user provisioning
- Image and Registry Access Management
- Desktop Insights Dashboard
- Enhanced container Isolation (ECI)
- Purchase via invoice
- 1 business day support response
- No user cap
- Unlimited Docker Scout-enabled repos
- Unlimited Docker Hub pull rate
- Unlimited private Docker Hub repos
- 1,500 Docker Build Cloud build minutes**
- 1,500 Testcontainers Cloud runtime minutes**
- 100 Organization access tokens
- Unlimited Docker Hub organizations***
Atera vs Docker FAQ
- Which one is cheaper?
- Docker is the cheaper option, starting at $11/mo vs $169/mo for Atera.
- Can I use either one for free?
- Docker has a free plan. Atera doesn't — though they do offer a free trial.
- How do they charge?
- Both use a per-seat model, so the comparison is straightforward — it comes down to features and limits at each price point.
- Which one is a better deal?
- Depends on what you need. Atera: Atera sits in the mid-to-upper range for MSP platforms, but the per-technician model flips the math in their favor for shops managing lots of endpoints. They're going after lean MSPs who'd get crushed by per-device pricing from competitors like NinjaRMM or ConnectWise. Docker: At $16-24/seat, Docker is priced modestly against dev tooling peers — they're not trying to be the premium option, they're trying to stay sticky with teams that already live in their ecosystem. The real competition isn't other container registries, it's the gravitational pull of cloud-native alternatives like GitHub Container Registry or AWS ECR that come bundled with infrastructure teams already pay for.
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