NVIDIA NGC Catalog
NVIDIANVIDIA's curated catalog of GPU-optimized containers, pretrained models, Helm charts and resources, published by NVIDIA and admitted third-party vendors such as Meta, Google and Mistral AI. Public entries download without sign-in through the web catalog, the NGC CLI or the API, as numbered versions. DGX and NVIDIA AI Enterprise customers also get a private registry for their own models.
Openness
1 high confidence- license
- proprietary(hosted service
- source
- closed(hosted NVIDIA service)
The NGC catalog and its private registry are services NVIDIA hosts, with no self-hostable version. Entries carry their own licenses, and some are available only to NVIDIA AI Enterprise subscribers.
- https://docs.nvidia.com/ngc/gpu-cloud/ngc-catalog-user-guide/index.html recorded 2026-09-27
"The NGC Catalog is a curated set of GPU-optimized software for AI, HPC, and Visualization." "Enterprise-only software ... only available for users with an NVIDIA AI Enterprise subscription."
- https://docs.nvidia.com/ngc/gpu-cloud/ngc-private-registry-user-guide/index.html recorded 2026-09-27
"The NGC Private Registry is available to DGX and NVIDIA AI Enterprise customers."
Adoption
not assessedNVIDIA shows how many entries of each kind the catalog holds but no download or user totals. A catalog count measures what is offered, so no reading was recorded.
- https://catalog.ngc.nvidia.com/models recorded 2026-09-27
"Container ( 1233 ) Collection ( 178 ) Model ( 903 ) Resource ( 597 ) Helm Chart ( 301 )" on the search page; no usage figure.
Capability
2 medium confidenceNGC hosts the files, versions them and serves them to anyone through the CLI or API, but only NVIDIA and vendors it admits publish to the public catalog. Unlike SageMaker JumpStart, it does not deploy a listed model onto managed serving; users pull the artifact and run it themselves.
- https://catalog.ngc.nvidia.com/models recorded 2026-09-27
Publisher facet over the models: "Nvidia 621", "Meta 23", "Google 10", "Mistral ai 9", "Microsoft 6".
- https://docs.ngc.nvidia.com/cli/cmd_registry.html recorded 2026-09-27
"Download a model version." "Upload a model version." "Publish a collection from the NGC private registry to catalog."
- https://docs.nvidia.com/ngc/gpu-cloud/ngc-catalog-user-guide/index.html recorded 2026-09-27
"The content provided by NVIDIA and third-party ISVs"; "The NGC Catalog consists of containers, pre-trained models, Helm charts"; "pulling public software from the NGC Catalog does not require sign-in".
Verified 2026-09-27