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Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd comparisons

Freemium#5 of 21 in Service Mesh Platforms

Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd is compared head-to-head with Istio, Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh and Google Cloud Service Mesh and more: 7 head-to-heads in Service Mesh Platforms, each with the specs and prices we checked.

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Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd head-to-head

Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd vs each of them

#	Tool	Free plan	Paid from	Deployment model	Proxy architecture	mTLS support	Traffic policies	Score
5	Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd	Yes		Hybrid	Both	Yes	Yes	8.7
1	Istio	Yes	Free	Self_hosted	Both	Yes	Yes	9.4
2	Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh	No	$0.98/unit usage-based	Managed	Both	Yes	Yes	9.2
3	Google Cloud Service Mesh	No	$0.50/unit/mo	Hybrid	Both	Yes	Yes	9.0
4	HashiCorp Consul	Yes		Hybrid	Sidecar	Yes	Yes	8.8
6	Linkerd	Yes	Free	Self_hosted	Sidecar	Yes	Yes	8.5
7	Greymatter	No		Hybrid	Both	Yes	Yes	8.4
8	Tetrate Service Bridge			Hybrid	Both	Yes	Yes	8.3

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