Chaos Mesh
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VisitChaos Mesh vs Gremlin
What both publish
| Fact | Chaos Mesh | Gremlin |
|---|---|---|
| License | Chaos Mesh is licensed under the Apache License 2.0. | Gremlin's commercial reliability platform is not offered as an open-source product; a G2 reviewer specifically notes that no open-source version is available. |
| Purpose | Chaos Mesh simulates faults in development, testing, and production environments to help identify potential system problems. | Gremlin helps engineering teams find failure modes, fix them, and validate reliability before failures become outages. |
| Security | Chaos Mesh manages permissions through Kubernetes RBAC, and namespace annotations can restrict where experiments are enabled. | Gremlin states it is SOC 2 Type II certified and encrypts data in transit with TLS and at rest with AES-256. |
| Security controls | Role-based access control is enabled by default to restrict dashboard operations. | Gremlin states that it supports SAML 2, Google OAuth2, MFA, proxying and administrator access logs. |
Chaos Mesh plans
- Chaos MeshFree
Gremlin plans
- Gremlin 30-day trialFree
- Gremlin Platform trialFree
- Gremlin Reliability Management Platform on AWS Marketplace$45,000 a year
- Gremlin Foresight AIPriced on request
- Fault injection suite (stand-alone)Priced on request
- Professional ServicesPriced on request
Pick Chaos Mesh if…
Chaos Mesh is suited to teams running Kubernetes workloads that want to schedule controlled fault experiments and check application health. Its broad fault coverage may also suit teams testing cloud and network failure scenarios.
Pick Gremlin if…
Gremlin is aimed at SRE and platform teams, including teams in financial services, retail, media, and B2B SaaS. It also suits teams that need self-hosting rather than SaaS.