
Enterprise Linkerd service mesh distribution with management and multi-cluster support.
Buoyant has 3 plans: a free plan and custom pricing for larger teams. We have not recorded a price change.
Buoyant plans and prices
Open Source
$0
- Zero-downtime deploys and upgrades
- Zero-config encryption (mTLS)
- Latency-based load balancing
- Multi-cluster communication
- Distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry)
- Public forums support
- Free for production use for companies with fewer than 50 employees
Premium
Custom
- Stable release artifacts
- Automated installs and upgrades
- SLAs on CVE remediation
- Mutual TLS and basic service mesh featureset
- Multi-cluster communication
- L7 network security policies
- Automatic cross-cluster failover
- Support for Linux VM workloads
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- Zero-downtime deploys and upgrades
- Stable releases with semantic versioning
- CVE remediation SLAs
- Full test matrix for every release
- Lifecycle automation operator
- Zero-config encryption and authentication of all meshed traffic
- Cryptographic workload identities, not IP addresses
- Secure-by-default Rust data plane
- Zero-trust granular authorization policies
- Latency-based load balancing
- Timeouts and retries
- Circuit breaking
- gRPC load balancing
- Blue-green / canary deploys
- L7-aware request routing
- Transparent multi-cluster communication
- Federated services
- VM application support
- Observability
- Uniform L7 metrics including success rates and latency distributions
- Easy export to any Prometheus-compatible metrics store
- Distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry)
- Egress metrics
- Gateway API support
- Mutual TLS (mTLS) with TLS 1.3
- IPv6
- Buoyant Linkerd Public Forums
Strategic
Custom
- Hotpatch releases and SBOMs
- High Availability Zone-aware Load Balancing (HAZL)
- FIPS 140-3 and 140-2 validated cryptography (optional)
- Enterprise support with 24x7 SLAs
- CVE remediation SLAs
- Software Bills-of-Materials (SBOMs) for all components
- Hotpatch releases
- FIPS 140-2 and 140-3 validated cryptographic modules
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- Private support ticketing
- 24x7 on call SLAs
- 30-day 'white glove' onboarding
- Architecture review and best practice guidance
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