AWS App Mesh provides visibility and traffic controls for communication between services.
Alternatives to Kuma
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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