The short answer
- eclipse-temurin:25-jre-alpine is 123 MB smaller unpacked on amd64 (227 MB vs 351 MB, 35% less).
- As a download, eclipse-temurin:25-jre-alpine is 76 MB compressed against 117 MB for eclipse-temurin:25-jre: 1.6× less to pull.
- eclipse-temurin:25-jre-alpine has fewer known vulnerabilities: 0 (0 critical or high) against 48 (0 critical or high) in eclipse-temurin:25-jre.
- 0 of eclipse-temurin:25-jre's 48 findings have a fixed version available upstream.
- Base OS: eclipse-temurin:25-jre is built on Ubuntu 26.04; eclipse-temurin:25-jre-alpine on Alpine Linux 3.24.3.
- Alpine images use musl libc instead of glibc. Most software runs unchanged; prebuilt binaries linked against glibc (some Python wheels, Node native modules, vendor agents) may not.
- Packages detected: 117 in eclipse-temurin:25-jre, 44 in eclipse-temurin:25-jre-alpine.
- Filesystem layers: 6 vs 5.
- Platforms: only eclipse-temurin:25-jre ships ppc64le, s390x.
| eclipse-temurin:25-jre | eclipse-temurin:25-jre-alpine | |
|---|---|---|
| Download, amd64 | 117 MB | 76 MB |
| Unpacked, amd64 | 351 MB | 227 MB |
| Download, arm64 | 115 MB | 75 MB |
| Base OS | Ubuntu 26.04 | Alpine Linux 3.24.3 |
| Layers | 6 | 5 |
| Packages | 117 | 44 |
| Files | 5,886 | 895 |
| Known vulnerabilities | M 44L 4 | ✓ 0 known |
| Default user | root | root |
| Platforms | 4 | 2 |
| Last pushed | 3 days ago | 3 days ago |
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Highlighted cells are lower (smaller or fewer). Sizes from Docker Hub checked 2026-11-01; measurements and SBOMs from 2026-10-31 and 2026-10-31; vulnerability database 2026-11-01. Methodology.