Chaos Mesh comparisons
Chaos Mesh is compared head-to-head with Chaos Toolkit, Harness Chaos Engineering and Gremlin and more: 7 head-to-heads in Chaos Engineering Platforms, each with the specs and prices we checked.
Chaos Mesh head-to-head
- Chaos Mesh vs Chaos Toolkit
- Chaos Mesh vs Harness Chaos Engineering
- Chaos Mesh vs Gremlin
- Chaos Mesh vs Steadybit
- Chaos Mesh vs Reliably
- Chaos Mesh vs LitmusChaos
- Chaos Mesh vs FaultMesh
Chaos Mesh vs each of them
| # | Tool | Free plan | Paid from | Kubernetes support | Cloud fault injection | Network fault injection | Experiment scheduling | Deployment model | Blast-radius controls | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Chaos Mesh | Yes | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Self_hosted | Yes | 9.1 |
| 1 | Chaos Toolkit | Yes | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Self_hosted | Yes | 9.3 |
| 3 | Harness Chaos Engineering | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Hybrid | Yes | 9.0 | |
| 4 | Gremlin | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Hybrid | Yes | 8.9 | |
| 5 | Steadybit | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Hybrid | Yes | 8.8 | |
| 6 | Reliably | Yes | £40/mo | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Hybrid | Yes | 8.7 |
| 7 | LitmusChaos | Free | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Hybrid | Yes | 8.6 | |
| 8 | FaultMesh | Yes | $49/device/mo | Yes | Yes | Hybrid | Yes | 8.5 |
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