Which Redis tag is smallest?
redis:8-alpine is the smallest of the tags we measured: 120 MB unpacked and a 40 MB download on amd64, against 149 MB and 56 MB for redis:8, 1.2× smaller. The tag with the fewest known vulnerabilities is redis:8-alpine (0, 0 critical or high).
Tags at a glance
| Image | Size (compressed, amd64) | Unpacked | Base OS | Layers | Packages | Vulnerabilities | Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| redis:8 | 56 MB | 149 MB | Debian 13.7 (trixie) | 7 | 78 | H 43M 60L 60? 1 | 4 days ago |
| redis:8-alpine | 40 MB | 120 MB | Alpine Linux 3.23.7 | 7 | 23 | ✓ 0 known | 3 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
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.