Comparison

Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh vs Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

No leader: the top candidate Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh has only 0.26 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh49
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh51
Score
Vioscale score
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh49 / 100low · 31%
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh51 / 100low · 26%
Pricing
Free tier
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Model
Alibaba Cloud Service Meshfreemium
Red Hat OpenShift Service Meshcommercial
Price level
Alibaba Cloud Service Meshlow
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Transparent
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Integrations
Count
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh8
Security
Disclosure policy
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Reliability
Status page
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for service mesh. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Architecture
Data plane
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh-
Red Hat OpenShift Service MeshSidecar
Proxy
Alibaba Cloud Service MeshEnvoy
Red Hat OpenShift Service MeshEnvoy
Security
Automatic mutual TLS
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh-
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
SPIFFE / SPIRE identity
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh-
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh-
Traffic
Traffic splitting / canary
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh-
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Fault injection / resilience
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh-
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh-
Scale
Multi-cluster federation
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh-
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Portability
VM support (beyond Kubernetes)
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh-
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh-
Observability
Built-in observability
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh-
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Standards
Gateway API / GAMMA support
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh-
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh-
Extensibility
WASM extensibility
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh-
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh-
Compliance
FIPS mode
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh-
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh-
Ecosystem
CNCF maturity
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh-
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh-
Ops
Commercial support / enterprise edition
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh-
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh

Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh (ASM) is a fully managed service mesh platform compatible with Istio that provides consistent traffic shaping, security, and observability for microservices across multiple Kubernetes clusters and virtual machines.

Independently observed

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

Not documented yet.

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh

HybridFree tier
as of verify ↗

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

Pricing not documented yet.

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
CLI
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Self-hosted
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
On-premise
Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Alibaba Cloud Service Mesh

Not documented yet.

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

8 total
  • Istio
  • Envoy
  • Kiali
  • Red Hat Connectivity Link
  • Red Hat OpenShift Observability
  • cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift
  • Red Hat OpenShift Gitops
  • Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.