# Chaos Mesh vs Steadybit

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** Chaos Mesh

| Attribute | Chaos Mesh | Steadybit |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 47.8 (78% (high)) | 40.4 (14% (low)) |
| activity.commits_last_30d | 8 | - |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 95 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 7,937 | - |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"Chaos Mesh enables controlled fault injection within Kubernetes environments to simulate real-world failures and identify system vulnerabilities. It provides orchestrated scenarios across development, testing, and production environments with a user-friendly dashboard and comprehensive fault types. It is indexed under Chaos Engineering.","source":"https://chaos-mesh.org","question":"What is Chaos Mesh?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Chaos Mesh is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the Apache-2.0 licence. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://chaos-mesh.org","question":"Is Chaos Mesh free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Chaos Mesh supports the web and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://chaos-mesh.org","question":"What platforms does Chaos Mesh support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Chaos Mesh can be deployed self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://chaos-mesh.org","question":"Can Chaos Mesh be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Chaos Mesh is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh","question":"Is Chaos Mesh open source?","confidence":0.95}]` | `[{"answer":"A command-line tool that analyzes Kubernetes object definitions to detect issues and provide recommendations for improved deployments. It integrates into CI/CD pipelines and exits with configurable status codes to prevent problematic configurations from being deployed. It is indexed under Chaos Engineering.","source":"https://steadybit.com","question":"What is Steadybit?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Steadybit does not publish its prices. Pricing is quoted on request, across 2 plans (Professional and Enterprise), so the figure depends on your seat count and requirements. We record this as a pricing-transparency signal rather than guessing a number. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://steadybit.com/pricing/","question":"How much does Steadybit cost?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Steadybit supports Windows, macOS, Linux and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://steadybit.com","question":"What platforms does Steadybit support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Steadybit can be deployed self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://steadybit.com","question":"Can Steadybit be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 50 integrations for Steadybit, including AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS Lambda, AWS Elastic Load Balancers, AWS ElastiCache, AWS Fault Injection Service and AWS Managed Streaming for Kafka, plus 42 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://steadybit.com","question":"What does Steadybit integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Steadybit is available worldwide. The vendor is headquartered in Germany.","source":"https://steadybit.com/pricing/","question":"Where is Steadybit available?","confidence":0.75}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | Chaos Mesh is a Kubernetes-native chaos engineering platform that simulates various types of infrastructure and application failures to test system resilience. It provides a visual dashboard for designing experiments and includes automation capabilities for orchestrating complex fault scenarios. | Analyzes Kubernetes YAML and Helm charts to identify potential reliability and security issues, with recommendations for improvements. |
| features.capabilities | `{"agent_based":true,"open_source":true,"pricing_model":"open_source","deployment_model":"self_hosted","kubernetes_native":true,"experiment_as_code":true,"rbac_access_control":true,"blast_radius_control":true,"fault_injection_scope":"multi","automated_abort_safety":true,"scheduling_gameday_orchestration":true}` | `{"kubernetes_native":true}` |
| integrations.count | 3 | 2 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"AWS","native":false,"direction":"outbound"},{"name":"Azure","native":false,"direction":"outbound"},{"name":"GCP","native":false,"direction":"outbound"}]` | `[{"name":"AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)"},{"name":"AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)"},{"name":"AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS)"},{"name":"AWS Lambda"},{"name":"AWS Elastic Load Balancers"},{"name":"AWS ElastiCache"},{"name":"AWS Fault Injection Service"},{"name":"AWS Managed Streaming for Kafka"},{"name":"AWS Relational Database Service"},{"name":"Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)"},{"name":"Azure Virtual Machines"},{"name":"Azure Functions"},{"name":"Azure Event Hub"},{"name":"Azure Container Apps"},{"name":"Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)"},{"name":"GCP Virtual Machines"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"Docker"},{"name":"containerd"},{"name":"CRI-O"},{"name":"Red Hat OpenShift"},{"name":"minikube"},{"name":"NGINX"},{"name":"HA Proxy"},{"name":"Apache Kafka"},{"name":"RabbitMQ"},{"name":"Apache JMeter"},{"name":"Gatling"},{"name":"K6"},{"name":"Postman"},{"name":"Datadog"},{"name":"Grafana"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"New Relic"},{"name":"Dynatrace"},{"name":"Splunk"},{"name":"AppDynamics"},{"name":"Instana"},{"name":"StackState"},{"name":"Jenkins"},{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Kong"},{"name":"Istio"},{"name":"Spring Applications"},{"name":"Java Virtual Machines"},{"name":"Linux"},{"name":"Ubuntu"},{"name":"Debian"},{"name":"Fedora"},{"name":"Helm"}]` |
| language.primary | Go | - |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | - |
| market.availability | - | `{"hqCountry":"DE","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true,"web":true}` | `{"cli":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","sourceUrl":"https://chaos-mesh.org","retrievedAt":"2026-10-14T11:27:50.671Z"}` | `{"type":"quote","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Professional","features":["Landscape Explorer","Reliability Advice","Experiment Templates","Unlimited Agents & Targets","Unlimited Users & Teams","Unlimited Experiment Executions","Experiment Scheduling","Standard Customer Support (9-5)"],"description":"For teams getting started with chaos engineering that want to easily launch experiments","contactSales":true},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","features":["Reporting","Custom Property Management","Pre-flight webhooks","Custom webhooks","On-Prem Installation","SAML","Audit log","Tailored Onboarding","Enterprise Support","Strategic Partner Program"],"description":"For organizations rolling out chaos engineering at scale that need a full reliability platform","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Pricing available by request. 30-day free trial included.","freeTier":false,"sourceUrl":"https://steadybit.com/pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-18T12:51:42.301Z","freeTrialDays":30}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | open_source | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | free | free |
| pricing.transparent | - | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 69 | - |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/releases/tag/v2.8.4","date":"2026-08-18T07:27:04Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.8.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/releases/tag/v2.8.3","date":"2026-06-10T03:37:19Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.8.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/releases/tag/v2.8.2","date":"2026-03-25T03:30:03Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.8.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/releases/tag/v2.8.1","date":"2025-12-26T00:27:56Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.8.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/releases/tag/v2.8.0","date":"2025-09-30T22:28:24Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.8.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/releases/tag/v2.7.3","date":"2025-08-21T04:19:29Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.7.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/releases/tag/v2.7.2","date":"2025-05-15T07:50:11Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.7.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/releases/tag/v2.6.7","date":"2025-05-15T07:55:59Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.6.7"},{"url":"https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/releases/tag/v2.7.1","date":"2025-03-04T02:27:18Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.7.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/releases/tag/v2.6.6","date":"2025-03-04T02:44:32Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.6.6"},{"url":"https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/releases/tag/v2.7.0","date":"2024-09-20T07:47:35Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.7.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/releases/tag/v2.6.5","date":"2024-09-20T08:19:52Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.6.5"},{"url":"https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/releases/tag/v2.6.4","date":"2024-08-21T05:26:00Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.6.4"},{"url":"https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/releases/tag/v2.6.3","date":"2024-01-23T15:04:37Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.6.3"},{"url":"https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/releases/tag/v2.6.2","date":"2023-08-23T06:40:12Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.6.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/releases/tag/v2.6.1","date":"2023-06-28T07:54:06Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.6.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/releases/tag/v2.6.0","date":"2023-05-31T03:52:21Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.6.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/releases/tag/v2.5.2","date":"2023-04-13T08:48:24Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.5.2"},{"url":"https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/releases/tag/v2.5.1","date":"2023-01-14T02:32:58Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.5.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/chaos-mesh/chaos-mesh/releases/tag/v2.5.0","date":"2022-11-22T11:35:17Z","type":"stable","version":"v2.5.0"}]` | - |
| reliability.status_page | yes | - |
| security.scorecard | 6.4 | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":4,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fchaos-mesh%2Fchaos-mesh&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":"CRITICAL"}` | - |

## Capabilities (Chaos Engineering)

| Capability | Chaos Mesh | Steadybit |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Fault injection scope | Multi | - |
| Blast radius control | ✓ | - |
| Automated abort safety | ✓ | - |
| Kubernetes native | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scheduling gameday orchestration | ✓ | - |
| Observability integration | - | - |
| Experiment as code | ✓ | - |
| Agent based | ✓ | - |
| RBAC access control | ✓ | - |
| Deployment model | Self hosted | - |
| SOC2 | - | - |
| Open source | ✓ | - |
| Pricing model | Open source | - |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T20:15:15.397Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*