Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd comparisons

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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	7.8
1	Istio	Yes	None	Self_hosted	Both	Yes	Yes	—
2	Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh	No	—	Managed	Both	Yes	Yes	8.0
3	Google Cloud Service Mesh	No	$0.5/mo	Hybrid	Both	Yes	Yes	7.8
4	HashiCorp Consul	Yes	—	Hybrid	Sidecar	Yes	Yes	8.0
6	Linkerd	Yes	None	Self_hosted	Sidecar	Yes	Yes	8.8
7	Greymatter	No	—	Hybrid	Both	Yes	Yes	—
8	Tetrate Service Bridge	—	—	Hybrid	Both	Yes	Yes	—

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