Greymatter vs Kuma
No clear leader: Kuma (53.3) and Greymatter (53.0) 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.
Capabilities
Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for service mesh. “-” means undocumented, not absent.
What each one is
The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.
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.
Kuma
Open-source control plane for service mesh delivering security, observability, routing and more. Built on Envoy with support for Kubernetes, VMs, and multi-cluster deployments.
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.
- Grafana
- Prometheus
Greymatter
- Kibana
- Splunk
- Elasticsearch
- Keycloak
- PingFederate
- Okta
- Auth0
Kuma
- Datadog
- OpenTelemetry
Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.