Gremlin
7.2#2 in chaos engineering platformsFrom $3,750 a monthWebAPILinuxSelf-hosted
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kube-monkey
5.6#18 in chaos engineering platformsFree planFree planSelf-hosted
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| Fact | Gremlin | kube-monkey |
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| License | 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. | The repository is distributed under the Apache License 2.0. |
| Purpose | Gremlin helps engineering teams find failure modes, fix them, and validate reliability before failures become outages. | Implements Netflix’s Chaos Monkey for Kubernetes by randomly deleting pods to help develop and validate failure-resilient services. |
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
kube-monkey plans
- kube-monkeyFree
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.
Pick kube-monkey if…
It suits Kubernetes teams that want to exercise failure resilience in opted-in workloads. Teams should account for its cluster-wide permission requirement when using namespace pattern filtering.