Alternatives/ Minimus
A free, open alternative to Minimus
Minimus ships proprietary from-source minimal images as a commercial product, with a free program for eligible open-source projects. QuenchWorks is from-source and minimal too, but free for everyone, fully public, and shipped with signed Helm charts pinned by digest.
QuenchWorks vs Minimus, feature by feature
Price / free tier
QuenchWorks
Free
Minimus
Paid
Commercial; a free open-source program exists for eligible projects
Built from source on Wolfi
QuenchWorks
Yes
Minimus
No
Proprietary from-source build, not Wolfi
0-CVE goal with daily rebuilds
QuenchWorks
Yes
Hard Trivy gate; a fixable CVE fails the build
Minimus
Yes
Near-zero-CVE goal; paid tiers add a remediation SLA
Signed (cosign keyless)
QuenchWorks
Yes
Minimus
Yes
Cosign signatures
SBOM (SPDX or CycloneDX)
QuenchWorks
Yes
SPDX
Minimus
Yes
SLSA build provenance
QuenchWorks
Yes
Minimus
Yes
SLSA Level 3-aligned (per vendor)
Multi-arch (amd64 + arm64)
QuenchWorks
Yes
Minimus
Varies
Not confirmed from a primary source
Helm charts included
QuenchWorks
Yes
Minimus
Yes
Helm charts offered
Charts pin images by digest
QuenchWorks
Yes
Minimus
Varies
Not confirmed here
License transparency, clean alternatives flagged
QuenchWorks
Yes
Source-available apps are labeled, with an OSI-clean alternative named
Minimus
Partial
Open and free to verify
QuenchWorks
Yes
Public images, charts, and build workflows
Minimus
Partial
Commercial; open-source program for eligible projects
Conservative on purpose: where a fact about Minimus could not be confirmed from a primary source, it is marked "Varies" or "Partial" rather than guessed. Verify every claim against Minimus’s own public sources before relying on it.
Free, signed, and yours to verify.
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