Emissary vs Envoy Gateway
No leader: the top candidate Envoy Gateway has only 0.33 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.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for api gateways. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
Emissary
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.
Envoy Gateway
Open-source gateway providing traffic management, security controls, and observability for Kubernetes applications following the Gateway API specification. Can be deployed either standalone or as part of a Kubernetes cluster.
Pricing
List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.
Platform & deployment
Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.
Integrations
What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.
Emissary
- Consul
- Linkerd
- Istio
- Knative
- Grafana
- Prometheus
- Datadog
Envoy Gateway
Not documented yet.
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.