Comparison

Emissary vs Emissary-ingress

On the evidence we track, Emissary leads this comparison with a composite score of 50/100. 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
Emissary50
Emissary-ingress29
Score
Vioscale score
Emissary50 / 100medium · 54%
Emissary-ingress29 / 100low · 4%
Pricing
Free tier
Emissary
Emissary-ingress
Model
Emissaryopen_source
Emissary-ingressopen_source
Price level
Emissaryfree
Emissary-ingressfree
Transparent
Emissary
Emissary-ingress
Integrations
Count
Emissary7
Emissary-ingress
Reliability
Status page
Emissary
Emissary-ingress
Adoption
Dependent repos
Emissary4
Emissary-ingress
Github stars
Emissary4,519
Emissary-ingress
Activity
Commits last 30d
Emissary31
Emissary-ingress
Release
Cadence days
Emissary18
Emissary-ingress
History
Emissary20 items
Emissary-ingress
License
Spdx
EmissaryApache-2.0
Emissary-ingress
Language
Primary
EmissaryPython
Emissary-ingress
Market
Availability
Emissary-ingress

Capabilities

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

Deployment
Hosting
EmissarySelf-hosted only
Emissary-ingress-
Kubernetes-native
Emissary
Emissary-ingress-
Traffic
Rate limiting
Emissary
Emissary-ingress-
Request/response transformation
Emissary-
Emissary-ingress-
Security
OAuth2 / OIDC / JWT
Emissary-
Emissary-ingress-
Mutual TLS
Emissary
Emissary-ingress-
Protocols
GraphQL gateway
Emissary-
Emissary-ingress-
gRPC support
Emissary
Emissary-ingress-
Delivery
Developer portal
Emissary-
Emissary-ingress-
Monetization
Emissary-
Emissary-ingress-
Ecosystem
Plugin ecosystem
Emissary-
Emissary-ingress-
Insight
Observability
Emissary
Emissary-ingress

What each one is

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

Emissary

Leader

An open-source, CNCF incubation project providing a Kubernetes-native API gateway with Layer 7 load balancing and ingress capabilities for microservices, built on Envoy Proxy.

Independently observed

Emissary-ingress

Open-source API management platform and access management solution.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

Emissary

Leader
Open source
as of verify ↗

Emissary-ingress

Open source
as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Deployment
Self-hosted
Emissary
Emissary-ingress

Integrations

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

Emissary

Leader
7 total
  • Consul
  • Linkerd
  • Istio
  • Knative
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • Datadog
Independently observed

Emissary-ingress

Not documented yet.

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