Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd vs Traefik Mesh

Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd

7.2 #1 in Service Mesh Platforms

About Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd

Traefik Mesh

5.7 #15 in Service Mesh Platforms

About Traefik Mesh
Buoyant Enterprise for LinkerdTraefik Mesh
Free planYesNo
Free trialYesNo
Paid fromFree—
Open sourceNoNo
PlatformsLinux, self-hosted, Web, Windows—
Free planYes—
Deployment modelhybridself_hosted
Proxy architecturebothsidecarless
mTLS supportYesNo
Traffic policiesYesYes
Multi-cluster supportYes—
Supported platformsKubernetes, Amazon EKS, Google GKE, Microsoft Azure AKS, Oracle OKE, Rancher RKE2, Red Hat OpenShiftKubernetes

Both are listed in Best Service Mesh Platforms. On Everything Xiaomi, Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd scores higher on our published basis.