Cilium alternatives
On the evidence we track, the strongest alternative to Cilium is Google Cloud Service Mesh at 69/100. Cilium itself ranks #5 of 22 in service mesh. Every product below is scored on the same independent signals, so the ranking is comparable rather than a matter of opinion.
Ranked alternatives to Cilium
- 1Google Cloud Service Meshvs Cilium →low · 41%updating
- 2Consulvs Cilium →medium · 51%updating
- 3AWS App Meshvs Cilium →medium · 63%updating
- 4Linkerdvs Cilium →low · 42%updating
- 5Kong Meshvs Cilium →low · 39%updating
- 6Istiovs Cilium →medium · 54%updating
- 7Tetrate Service Bridgevs Cilium →low · 33%updating
- 8Kumavs Cilium →low · 36%updating
- 9Greymattervs Cilium →low · 49%updating
- 10Google Traffic Directorvs Cilium →low · 49%updating
- 11Red Hat OpenShift Service Meshvs Cilium →low · 26%updating
- 12Alibaba Cloud Service Meshvs Cilium →low · 31%updating
Why these ones
An alternative here means a product in the same category as Cilium (Service Mesh), ranked by the Vioscale composite: a confidence-weighted blend of independent signals such as adoption, release activity, pricing transparency and security posture. There are no user reviews in it, and no vendor can pay to appear or to rank higher. Where we have not confirmed something, we show that rather than guessing.
Generated . See the method for how the composite is built, and why we are independent.