Comparison

Cilium vs Greymatter

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
Greymatter53
Score
Vioscale score
Cilium63 / 100low · 42%updating
Greymatter53 / 100low · 49%updating
Pricing
Free tier
Cilium
Greymatter
Model
Greymatterfree
Price level
Ciliumfree
Greymatterfree
Transparent
Cilium
Greymatter
Integrations
Count
Cilium
Greymatter9
Reliability
Status page
Cilium
Greymatter
Adoption
Dependent repos
Cilium103
Greymatter
Github stars
Cilium25,013
Greymatter
Activity
Commits last 30d
Cilium100
Greymatter
Release
Cadence days
Cilium5
Greymatter
History
Cilium20 items
Greymatter
License
Spdx
Greymatter
Language
Primary
CiliumGo
Greymatter
Market
Availability

Capabilities

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

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

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

Greymatter

A zero trust networking platform that secures AI-era systems with unified connectivity and security for applications, APIs, and AI workloads across cloud, Kubernetes, and hybrid environments.

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 ↗

Greymatter

FreeFree tier
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Cilium
Greymatter
Linux
Cilium
Greymatter
CLI
Cilium
Greymatter
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Cilium
Greymatter
Self-hosted
Cilium
Greymatter
Hybrid
Cilium
Greymatter
Air-gapped
Cilium
Greymatter

Integrations

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

Cilium

Leader

Not documented yet.

Greymatter

9 total
  • Grafana
  • Kibana
  • Prometheus
  • Splunk
  • Elasticsearch
  • Keycloak
  • PingFederate
  • Okta
  • Auth0
Independently observed

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