Which Debian tag is smallest?
debian:bookworm-slim is the smallest of the tags we measured: 78 MB unpacked and a 28 MB download on amd64, against 124 MB and 49 MB for debian:trixie, 1.6× smaller. The tag with the fewest known vulnerabilities is debian:trixie (164, 43 critical or high).
Tags at a glance
| Image | Size (compressed, amd64) | Unpacked | Base OS | Layers | Packages | Vulnerabilities | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| debian:trixie | 49 MB | 124 MB | Debian 13.7 (trixie) | 1 | 78 | H 43M 60L 60? 1 | 4 days ago |
| debian:trixie-slim | 30 MB | 81 MB | Debian 13.7 (trixie) | 1 | 78 | H 43M 60L 60? 1 | 4 days ago |
| debian:bookworm-slim | 28 MB | 78 MB | Debian 12.15 (bookworm) | 1 | 88 | C 1H 48M 89L 83? 3 | 4 days ago |
Size by tag (amd64)
Compressed (download)Unpacked (on disk)
Known vulnerabilities by tag
CriticalHighMediumLowUnknown
Download size on arm64
Compressed size of the arm64 (v8) variant, for Apple Silicon, Graviton and Ampere hosts.
Comparisons
- alpine:3.24 vs debian:trixie-slim
- debian:trixie-slim vs ubuntu:24.04
- debian:trixie-slim vs debian:bookworm-slim
Sizes from the Docker Hub API, checked 2026-11-01. Unpacked size, files and packages measured from the amd64 image. Vulnerabilities from Trivy, database dated 2026-11-01. How we measure.