Gremlin vs Steadybit

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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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S Steadybit #5 in Chaos Engineering Platforms 8.8/10 Pricing on request · 30-day trial Free trial✓ 5 of 5 features Visit Steadybit

• Gremlin fits best

  Enterprise teams needing deep managed chaos

• Steadybit fits best

  Enterprise reliability workflows and governance

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Side by side

Feature	Gremlin 8.9/10 Visit ↗	SSteadybit 8.8/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score	8.9	8.8
Ranking	#4 in Chaos Engineering Platforms	#5 in Chaos Engineering Platforms
Best for	Enterprise teams needing deep managed chaos	Enterprise reliability workflows and governance
Pricing model	Paid	Paid
Starting price	—	—
Free plan	—	—
Free trial	30 days	30 days
Free trial length	30 days · no card needed	30 days
Deployment	Cloud, Self-hosted	Cloud, Self-hosted
Platforms	Web, Windows, Linux	Web
Support	Email, Phone, Community, Docs	Email, Tickets, Docs
Compliance	SOC 2, ISO 27001, GDPR, PCI DSS, SSO/SAML, 2FA	GDPR, SSO/SAML
Integrations	12 integrations	28+ integrations
Built for	Mid-market, Enterprise	Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise
Features Gremlin 5/5 · Steadybit 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	No-code experiments with blast-radius controls and emergency stops Broad fault injection across Kubernetes, cloud, networks, hosts, and applications CI/CD, API, CLI, scheduled execution, reports, and audit logs
Cons	Paid pricing requires contacting sales There is no free plan Fault Injection is also offered as a standalone product	Professional and Enterprise plans require contact with Steadybit There is no permanent free plan Advanced governance features are reserved for Enterprise
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 →	Steadybit is a chaos engineering and reliability testing platform for software, platform, and reliability teams. It helps organizations discover system components, identify reliability risks, design no-code experiments, inject faults, and… 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

• Steadybit — where it wins

  • No-code experiments with blast-radius controls and emergency stops
  • Broad fault injection across Kubernetes, cloud, networks, hosts, and applications
  • CI/CD, API, CLI, scheduled execution, reports, and audit logs

  Where it doesn't

  • Professional and Enterprise plans require contact with Steadybit
  • There is no permanent free plan
  • Advanced governance features are reserved for Enterprise

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

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

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• SSteadybit8.8/10 · Pricing on request · 30-day trial

  A governed, no-code platform for running controlled reliability experiments at scale.

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