Which RabbitMQ tag is smallest?
rabbitmq:4-alpine is the smallest of the tags we measured: 178 MB unpacked and a 90 MB download on amd64, against 297 MB and 136 MB for rabbitmq:4-management, 1.7× smaller. The tag with the fewest known vulnerabilities is rabbitmq:4-alpine (0, 0 critical or high).
Tags at a glance
| Image | Size (compressed, amd64) | Unpacked | Base OS | Layers | Packages | Vulnerabilities | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| rabbitmq:4 | 131 MB | 286 MB | Ubuntu 26.04 | 10 | 103 | M 38L 4 | 4 days ago |
| rabbitmq:4-alpine | 90 MB | 178 MB | Alpine Linux 3.24.3 | 9 | 30 | ✓ 0 known | 5 days ago |
| rabbitmq:4-management | 136 MB | 297 MB | Ubuntu 26.04 | 12 | 103 | M 38L 4 | 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.
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.