Azure DevOps 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.
| Azure DevOps | Docker | |
|---|---|---|
| Starts at | $6/mo | $11/mo |
| Number of plans | 3 | 4 |
| Free plan | ||
| Free trial | ||
| Pricing model | per-seat | per-seat |
Stakeholders (Free)
- Create and edit work items, including bugs, requirements, and tasks
- Search and query work items
- View backlog and boards
- Set alerts and get notified about changing work items
- Provide feedback
- Continuous integration and deployment
- Approve releases
- Store 2 GiB free in artifacts
- Exploratory testing
- View charts, widgets, dashboards, and wikis
Basic
- Create and edit work items, including bugs, requirements, and tasks
- Search and query work items
- View backlog and boards
- Set alerts and get notified about changing work items
- Provide feedback
- Request feedback
- Agile tools (Kanban boards, backlogs, sprint planning, portfolio management)
- Create new work item tags
- Delivery plans
- Copilot Code Review
- Unlimited Git repositories
- Connect to your code using Xcode, Eclipse, InteliJ, Android Studio, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and more
- Centralized version control with Team Foundation Version Control, including Code Review
- Powerful semantic code search
- Continuous integration and deployment
- Approve releases
- Store 2 GiB free in artifacts
- Exploratory testing
- Web-based test execution from Test Runner
- Add and run tests from the Kanban board
- View charts, widgets, dashboards, and wikis
- Create charts, configure widgets, set up dashboards, and write wikis
Basic + Test Plans
- Create and edit work items, including bugs, requirements, and tasks
- Search and query work items
- View backlog and boards
- Set alerts and get notified about changing work items
- Provide feedback
- Request feedback
- Agile tools (Kanban boards, backlogs, sprint planning, portfolio management)
- Create new work item tags
- Delivery plans
- Copilot Code Review
- Unlimited Git repositories
- Connect to your code using Xcode, Eclipse, InteliJ, Android Studio, Visual Studio, Visual Studio Code, and more
- Centralized version control with Team Foundation Version Control, including Code Review
- Powerful semantic code search
- Continuous integration and deployment
- Approve releases
- Store 2 GiB free in artifacts
- Exploratory testing
- Create and manage Test Plans
- Web-based test execution from Test Runner
- Add and run tests from the Kanban board
- View charts, widgets, dashboards, and wikis
- Create charts, configure widgets, set up dashboards, and write wikis
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***
Azure DevOps vs Docker FAQ
- Which one is cheaper?
- Azure DevOps starts lower at $6/mo, compared to $11/mo for Docker.
- Can I use either one for free?
- Both offer free plans, so you can try each without paying. Start with whichever fits your workflow better and upgrade when you hit the limits.
- 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. Azure DevOps: At $6/seat for Basic, they're undercutting Jira's comparable tiers and practically giving away entry-level access — especially with the first 5 users free. They're clearly targeting enterprises already in the Microsoft ecosystem, and the free access for Visual Studio subscribers and GitHub Enterprise Cloud customers makes this a lock-in play more than a price-war play. 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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