Chaos Mesh vs Reliably

Chaos Mesh9.1Visit Reliably8.7Visit

Higher score Chaos Mesh #2 in Chaos Engineering Platforms 9.1/10 Free plan Free plan✓ 5 of 5 features Visit Chaos Mesh

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Reliably #6 in Chaos Engineering Platforms 8.7/10 Free plan Free plan✓ 5 of 5 features Visit Reliably

• Chaos Mesh fits best

  Kubernetes teams needing broad fault types

• Reliably fits best

  Teams wanting a guided chaos management layer

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Side by side

Feature	Chaos Mesh 9.1/10 Visit ↗	Reliably 8.7/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score	9.1	8.7
Ranking	#2 in Chaos Engineering Platforms	#6 in Chaos Engineering Platforms
Best for	Kubernetes teams needing broad fault types	Teams wanting a guided chaos management layer
Pricing model	Free	Free plan + paid
Starting price	Free plan	£40/mo
Free plan	✓	✓
Free trial	—	—
Deployment	Cloud, Self-hosted, Browser extension	Cloud, Self-hosted
Platforms	Web	Web, Windows, Linux
Support	Community, Docs	Email, Docs
Integrations	5 integrations	3 integrations
Built for	Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise	Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise
Features Chaos Mesh 5/5 · Reliably 5/5
Kubernetes support	✓	✓
Cloud fault injection	✓	✓
Network fault injection	✓	✓
Experiment scheduling	✓	✓
Blast-radius controls	✓	✓
Specs
Deployment model	Self_hosted	Hybrid
Our review
Pros	Broad fault injection across Kubernetes, networks, clouds, and JVMs Workflows, scheduling, selectors, and blast-radius controls Open-source and free to run in a self-hosted deployment	More than 300 actions and probes for experiment design Runs through cloud, GitHub Actions, CLI, Docker, and Kubernetes Free plan includes unlimited custom and GitHub executions
Cons	Self-hosted deployment requires your team to operate the platform Primarily designed for Kubernetes environments No AI features are included	Free plan is limited to one team member Free plan includes only five custom experiments Start limits cloud execution to 300 minutes per month
Our verdict	Chaos Mesh is an open-source chaos engineering platform designed primarily for Kubernetes environments. Development, testing, and operations teams can define, run, schedule, observe, and recover controlled fault-injection experiments… Read the review →	Reliably is a resilience engineering platform for software and operations teams that need to plan, run, schedule, and review Chaos Toolkit experiments. Its experiment builder, reusable templates, JSON import, execution journals, timelines,… Read the review →

Strengths and trade-offs

• Chaos Mesh — where it wins

  • Broad fault injection across Kubernetes, networks, clouds, and JVMs
  • Workflows, scheduling, selectors, and blast-radius controls
  • Open-source and free to run in a self-hosted deployment

  Where it doesn't

  • Self-hosted deployment requires your team to operate the platform
  • Primarily designed for Kubernetes environments
  • No AI features are included

• Reliably — where it wins

  • More than 300 actions and probes for experiment design
  • Runs through cloud, GitHub Actions, CLI, Docker, and Kubernetes
  • Free plan includes unlimited custom and GitHub executions

  Where it doesn't

  • Free plan is limited to one team member
  • Free plan includes only five custom experiments
  • Start limits cloud execution to 300 minutes per month

• Chaos Mesh9.1/10 · Free plan

  A broad, self-hosted toolkit for controlled Kubernetes fault injection.

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• Reliably8.7/10 · Free plan

  A guided chaos management layer with broad execution options and a free entry tier.

  Visit ReliablyFull verdict →