Comparison

Emissary vs Red Hat 3scale

No clear leader: Emissary (50.2) and Red Hat 3scale (50.0) are within the 5-point margin; treat as a tie. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
Emissary50
Red Hat 3scale50
Score
Vioscale score
Emissary50 / 100medium · 54%
Red Hat 3scale50 / 100low · 13%
Pricing
Free tier
Emissary
Red Hat 3scale
Model
Emissaryopen_source
Red Hat 3scalecommercial
Price level
Emissaryfree
Red Hat 3scale
Transparent
Emissary
Red Hat 3scale
Integrations
Count
Emissary7
Red Hat 3scale
Security
Disclosure policy
Emissary
Red Hat 3scale
Scorecard
Emissary5.9
Red Hat 3scale
Reliability
Status page
Emissary
Red Hat 3scale
Adoption
Dependent repos
Emissary4
Red Hat 3scale
Github stars
Emissary4,519
Red Hat 3scale
Activity
Commits last 30d
Emissary31
Red Hat 3scale
Release
Cadence days
Emissary18
Red Hat 3scale
History
Emissary20 items
Red Hat 3scale
License
Spdx
EmissaryApache-2.0
Red Hat 3scale
Language
Primary
EmissaryPython
Red Hat 3scale
Market
Availability
Red Hat 3scale

Capabilities

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

Deployment
Hosting
EmissarySelf-hosted only
Red Hat 3scale-
Kubernetes-native
Emissary
Red Hat 3scale-
Traffic
Rate limiting
Emissary
Red Hat 3scale-
Request/response transformation
Emissary-
Red Hat 3scale-
Security
OAuth2 / OIDC / JWT
Emissary-
Red Hat 3scale-
Mutual TLS
Emissary
Red Hat 3scale-
Protocols
GraphQL gateway
Emissary-
Red Hat 3scale-
gRPC support
Emissary
Red Hat 3scale-
Delivery
Developer portal
Emissary-
Red Hat 3scale-
Monetization
Emissary-
Red Hat 3scale-
Ecosystem
Plugin ecosystem
Emissary-
Red Hat 3scale-
Insight
Observability
Emissary
Red Hat 3scale-

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.

Independently observed

Red Hat 3scale

Red Hat 3scale is an API management solution that helps organizations design, build, and operate APIs at scale.

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

Open source
as of verify ↗

Red Hat 3scale

Pricing not documented yet.

Platform & deployment

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

Deployment
Self-hosted
Emissary
Red Hat 3scale

Integrations

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

Emissary

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

Red Hat 3scale

Not documented yet.

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