Gremlin vs LitmusChaos

Gremlin8.9Visit LitmusChaos8.6Visit

Higher score Gremlin #4 in Chaos Engineering Platforms 8.9/10 Pricing on request · 30-day trial Free trial✓ 5 of 5 features Visit Gremlin

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LitmusChaos #7 in Chaos Engineering Platforms 8.6/10 Open source ✓ 5 of 5 features Visit LitmusChaos

• Gremlin fits best

  Enterprise teams needing deep managed chaos

• LitmusChaos fits best

  Open-source Kubernetes and cloud platforms

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Side by side

Feature	Gremlin 8.9/10 Visit ↗	LitmusChaos 8.6/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score	8.9	8.6
Ranking	#4 in Chaos Engineering Platforms	#7 in Chaos Engineering Platforms
Best for	Enterprise teams needing deep managed chaos	Open-source Kubernetes and cloud platforms
Pricing model	Paid	Free
Starting price	—	Open source
Free plan	—	Not checked yet
Free trial	30 days	—
Deployment	Cloud, Self-hosted	Cloud, Self-hosted
Platforms	Web, Windows, Linux	Web
Support	Email, Phone, Community, Docs	Community, Docs
Integrations	12 integrations	2 integrations
Built for	Mid-market, Enterprise	Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise
Features Gremlin 5/5 · LitmusChaos 5/5
Kubernetes support	✓	✓
Cloud fault injection	✓	✓
Network fault injection	✓	✓
Experiment scheduling	✓	✓
Blast-radius controls	✓	✓
Specs
Deployment model	Hybrid	Hybrid
Our review
Pros	Controlled experiments across hosts, containers, Kubernetes, and serverless Health checks, automatic halt, rollback, and blast-radius controls Reliability scores, reporting, scenarios, APIs, and broad integrations	Supports Kubernetes plus AWS, GCP, and Azure experiments Composes, schedules, and repeats multi-step chaos workflows Uses probes, Prometheus metrics, and scope controls for validation
Cons	Paid pricing requires contacting sales There is no free plan Fault Injection is also offered as a standalone product	The listed integration set is limited to Prometheus and Kubernetes Its broad feature set may exceed the needs of narrowly focused teams Teams must choose between hosted SaaS and self-hosted deployment
Our verdict	Gremlin is a chaos engineering and reliability platform for SRE, platform, and engineering teams. It supports controlled fault injection across services, hosts, containers, Kubernetes resources, and serverless workloads. Teams can run… Read the review →	LitmusChaos is an open-source chaos engineering platform for cloud-native infrastructure and applications. It is designed for developers, QA teams, and site reliability engineers who need to design, orchestrate, schedule, and analyze… Read the review →

Strengths and trade-offs

• Gremlin — where it wins

  • Controlled experiments across hosts, containers, Kubernetes, and serverless
  • Health checks, automatic halt, rollback, and blast-radius controls
  • Reliability scores, reporting, scenarios, APIs, and broad integrations

  Where it doesn't

  • Paid pricing requires contacting sales
  • There is no free plan
  • Fault Injection is also offered as a standalone product

• LitmusChaos — where it wins

  • Supports Kubernetes plus AWS, GCP, and Azure experiments
  • Composes, schedules, and repeats multi-step chaos workflows
  • Uses probes, Prometheus metrics, and scope controls for validation

  Where it doesn't

  • The listed integration set is limited to Prometheus and Kubernetes
  • Its broad feature set may exceed the needs of narrowly focused teams
  • Teams must choose between hosted SaaS and self-hosted deployment

• Gremlin8.9/10 · Pricing on request · 30-day trial

  A broad managed chaos platform for controlled failure testing across modern infrastructure.

  Visit GremlinFull verdict →
• LitmusChaos8.6/10 · Open source

  A broad chaos platform for Kubernetes and cloud teams that need controlled failure experiments.

  Visit LitmusChaosFull verdict →