Buoyant
AutomatedEnterprise Linkerd service mesh distribution with management and multi-cluster support.
Active plans
3
Total changes
3
Last change
Jun 6, 2026
Price trend
no history
What we know about Buoyant’s pricing
Moderately activeChanges in 12 months
3
Cadence
Multiple changes per day
Direction
New plan recently added
Category position
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Current pricing
Open Source
monthlyFree
- 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
customCustom
- customContact Sales
- monthlyContact sales for pricing
- 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
- 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
customCustom
- customContact Sales
- monthlyContact sales for pricing
- 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
- Private support ticketing
- 24x7 on call SLAs
- 30-day 'white glove' onboarding
- Architecture review and best practice guidance
Price history
Last 3 changes
| Date | Plan | Change | Old | New | Δ% |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 6, 2026 | Strategic | new plan | — | — | — |
| Jun 6, 2026 | Premium | new plan | — | — | — |
| Jun 6, 2026 | Open Source | new plan | — | $0 | — |
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