Kuma is a free, open-source control plane for managing service meshes and microservices.
Alternatives to AWS App Mesh
AWS App Mesh provides visibility and traffic controls for service-to-service communication, with Envoy proxies handling routing and load balancing. It can adjust routes without application code changes, use health checks and service registration to select endpoints, and support mutual TLS. Its integrations include CloudWatch and X-Ray, and AWS manages the service so teams do not install or manage application-level communications infrastructure. It works with AWS container…
Network Service Mesh is an open-source project for connecting workloads across clusters and clouds through a hybrid, multi-cloud IP service mesh.
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Container Registry is an Oracle-managed service for storing, sharing, and managing container images.
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Traefik Mesh
Traefik Mesh is an open-source service mesh for Kubernetes that routes traffic through proxy endpoints on each node and runs its controller in a dedicated pod.
Free planAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.5Free plan - 5

Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd
Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd (BEL) is Buoyant’s enterprise distribution of Linkerd, a service mesh for Kubernetes.
Free planWebLinuxSelf-hostedWindows6.3Free plan - 6

Istio
Istio is a free, open-source service mesh for securing, connecting, and monitoring distributed applications with few or no service-code changes.
Free planLinuxmacOSSelf-hosted6.2Free plan - 7
Flomesh Service Mesh
Flomesh Service Mesh (FSM) is an open-source service mesh for traffic management and service governance of microservices running on Kubernetes.
Free planLinuxmacOSSelf-hosted6.0Free plan - 8

Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines
Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines automates application delivery on Red Hat OpenShift using a cloud-native CI/CD approach built on Tekton.
WebAPILinuxSelf-hosted6.0 - 9
Linkerd
Linkerd is a free, open-source service mesh for Kubernetes that adds runtime debugging, observability, reliability, and security without requiring…
Free planLinuxSelf-hosted5.9Free plan - 105.7Free plan
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Greymatter
Greymatter is a Zero Trust Networking platform for controlling, connecting, and securing applications, APIs, and AI workloads.
APISelf-hosted5.5 - 12

Tetrate Service Bridge
Tetrate Service Bridge is an Istio-based service mesh and control plane for connecting, monitoring, and securing microservices.
WebAPISelf-hosted5.5 - 13

Google Cloud Service Mesh
Google Cloud Service Mesh is a hybrid service mesh available through the web.
Free planWeb5.4Free plan - 14

VMware Tanzu Platform
VMware Tanzu Platform is a self-hosted platform as a service for delivering and managing applications.
WebAPISelf-hosted5.4 - 15
HashiCorp Consul
WebLinuxmacOSWindows5.3 - 16

Solo Enterprise for Istio
Solo Enterprise for Istio is a paid, self-hosted mesh offering for platform teams running microservices and MCP workloads across clusters and clouds.
Self-hosted4.9 - 174.8
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Kong Mesh
Kong Mesh is a paid service mesh for managing service-to-service traffic in hybrid deployments.
Web4.7 - 194.6
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