Comparison

Cilium vs Flomesh Service Mesh

On the evidence we track, Cilium leads this comparison with a composite score of 63/100. Scores are only directly comparable because these tools share a category; the full breakdown and every source is below.

Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
Cilium63
Flomesh Service Mesh34
Score
Vioscale score
Cilium63 / 100low · 42%
Flomesh Service Mesh34 / 100low · 32%
Pricing
Free tier
Cilium
Flomesh Service Mesh
Model
Flomesh Service Mesh
Price level
Ciliumfree
Flomesh Service Mesh
Transparent
Cilium
Flomesh Service Mesh
Adoption
Dependent repos
Cilium103
Flomesh Service Mesh
Github stars
Cilium25,013
Flomesh Service Mesh800
Activity
Commits last 30d
Cilium100
Flomesh Service Mesh0
Release
Cadence days
Cilium5
Flomesh Service Mesh19
History
Cilium20 items
Flomesh Service Mesh19 items
License
Spdx
Flomesh Service MeshApache-2.0
Language
Primary
CiliumGo
Flomesh Service MeshJavaScript

Capabilities

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

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

What each one is

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

Cilium

Leader

A cloud-native networking and security platform that uses eBPF to provide networking, observability, and security capabilities. Built for Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure with integrated observability via Hubble.

Independently observed

Flomesh Service Mesh

Flomesh Service Mesh (FSM) is a cloud-native service mesh solution that manages traffic between services while automatically encrypting their communication channels. It provides fine-grained access control policies to regulate which services can communicate with each other.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

Cilium

Leader
Open sourceFree tier
as of verify ↗

Flomesh 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
Linux
Cilium
Flomesh Service Mesh
CLI
Cilium
Flomesh Service Mesh
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Cilium
Flomesh Service Mesh
Self-hosted
Cilium
Flomesh Service Mesh

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