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Verified Publisher Program

Build trust.
Grow faster.

The Docker Verified Publisher badge signals ownership and commitment, giving your images priority placement in search, deeper pull analytics, and the trust signal developers look for.


30M+

developers on Docker Hub


20B

pulls per month


200x

more usage than community repos, on average

Which program is right for you?

Find your path

Whether you're publishing commercial software, open-source projects, or curated base images, Docker Hub has a verified publishing path for you.

DOI
Docker Official Images
Designed for

Upstream OSS maintainers partnering with Docker on curated images

Analytics

Basic pull metrics embedded in repository pages

DVP
Docker Verified Publisher
Designed for

Open-core or commercial publishers distributing content

Analytics

Premium: Pull trends, domain-level reporting

DSOS
Docker Sponsored OSS
Designed for

Pure open-source projects with no commercial offering

Analytics

High-level usage summaries

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Featured publishers

Industry leaders already on Docker Hub

These companies use the Docker Verified Publisher program to reach 30M+ developers worldwide.

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AWS logo
Datadog logo
Grafana Labs logo
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Why Docker Verified Publisher?

Built for publishers of all kinds

Everything you need to build trust, increase visibility, and grow adoption for your containerized software.

Verified Badge

A Docker Verified Publisher badge on every public repo signals trust to the 30M+ developers browsing Hub.

Analytics & Insights

Unlock pull metrics, usage trends, and consuming domains data to drive your go-to-market.

Increased Discoverability

Increased discoverability in search results and curated catalogs. Put your content in front of the right audience.

Agentic Distribution

Publish MCP servers, models, and sandbox kits alongside your images, and reach developers building with AI.


Most pulled

Popular verified images

image

Docker container for the new Datadog Agent

2h

1B+

175

image

The official Grafana docker container

15h

1B+

3.6K

image

A high-performance telemetry data (logs, metrics, traces) router. Maintained by Datadog.

11h

1B+

48

image

Fluent Bit image with plugins for AWS

1d

1B+

32

image

New Relic Infrastructure containerised agent bundle

6h

1B+

13

image

This Repo is now deprecated, use portainer/portainer-ce instead.

4y

1B+

2.6K

image

Percona XtraDB Cluster Operator

3m

1B+

17

image

DEPRECATED: New images will NOT be pushed. Please use gcr.io/cadvisor/cadvisor instead.

5y

1B+

554

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Pricing

Simple, transparent pricing

Unlock premium analytics and distribution. All applications go through a manual verification step.

Recommended
Starter
$4,800

/yr

Billed yearly
Growth
$15,000

/yr

Add-ons available

Docker Verified Publisher badge

Priority search placement

Weekly & monthly Summary report with high-level usage metrics

Docker Scout for CVE scanning

Trends reports for detailed usage and adoption tracking

Advanced analytics for tracking consuming domains and ecosystem trends

Single-repository tracking with benchmark reports

25 included consuming domains (add ons possible)

Apply for DVPPayment link sent after manual review · Applications typically reviewed within a few business days

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Analytics reports

Data-driven insights, delivered automatically

Both paid DVP plans include weekly and monthly data reports. From high-level pull summaries to company-level data your sales and marketing teams can act on.

Summary report
High-level overview of your portfolio
  • A comprehensive overview of your image portfolio performance

  • Tracking adoption patterns of your content over time

  • Helping you understand which repositories or namespaces are most popular with your users

View sample report
DATE_GRANULARITYDATE_REFERENCEPUBLISHER_NAMELEVELREFERENCEDATA_DOWNLOADSVERSION_CHECKSEVENT_COUNT
week2026-05-19examplecorprepositoryexamplecorp/core-runtime148,3122,031,8472,180,159
week2026-05-19examplecorprepositoryexamplecorp/metrics-agent31,204701,938733,142
week2026-05-19examplecorprepositoryexamplecorp/api-gateway12,01998,341110,360
week2026-05-19examplecorprepositoryexamplecorp/database-proxy6,88461,20468,088
week2026-05-19examplecorprepositoryexamplecorp/cache-server3,10217,49120,593
week2026-05-19examplecorprepositoryexamplecorp/log-collector1,4912,8734,364
week2026-05-19examplecorprepositoryexamplecorp/auth-service5839121,495
week2026-05-19examplecorprepositoryexamplecorp/web-server19471265
week2026-05-19examplecorprepositoryexamplecorp/worker-queue411960
week2026-05-19examplecorprepositoryexamplecorp/scheduler12517
week2026-05-19examplecorprepositoryexamplecorp/sdk-runtime505
Sample data for weekly CSV export. Actual report includes all repositories in your namespace.
More report types
Trends
Growth
  • Monitoring growth or decline across versions

  • Identify how usage varies across environments and cloud providers

  • Planning roadmap and release timing based on period-over-period behavior

Domain-level reporting
Growth
  • Tracking engagement from consuming domains and strategic accounts over time

  • Prioritizing outreach with company-level technology and co-usage signals

  • Supporting sales and partner motions with domain-level usage evidence

Benchmarks
Growth
  • Provides detailed insights into how companies are using a specific publisher repository or namespace

  • Helps clarify usage patterns, deployment environments, and adoption trends across publisher customer base and potential prospects

Growth
See Growth reports in action

Request sample exports for Trends, Benchmarks, and Consuming Domains to evaluate the data before committing to a tier.


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