Comparison

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.

Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
Greymatter53
Kuma53
Score
Vioscale score
Greymatter53 / 100low · 49%
Kuma53 / 100low · 36%
Pricing
Free tier
Greymatter
Kuma
Model
Greymatterfree
Price level
Greymatterfree
Kumafree
Transparent
Greymatter
Kuma
Integrations
Count
Greymatter9
Kuma4
Reliability
Status page
Greymatter
Kuma
Adoption
Dependent repos
Greymatter
Kuma8
Github stars
Greymatter
Kuma3,995
Activity
Commits last 30d
Greymatter
Kuma100
Release
History
Greymatter
License
Spdx
Greymatter
Language
Primary
Greymatter
KumaGo

Capabilities

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

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

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.

Independently observed

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.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

Greymatter

FreeFree tier
as of verify ↗

Kuma

Open sourceFree tier

Open-source with enterprise offerings available (demo on request)

as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Web
Greymatter
Kuma
CLI
Greymatter
Kuma
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Greymatter
Kuma
Self-hosted
Greymatter
Kuma
On-premise
Greymatter
Kuma
Hybrid
Greymatter
Kuma
Air-gapped
Greymatter
Kuma

Integrations

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

In common (2)
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus

Greymatter

9 total - 7 not shared
  • Kibana
  • Splunk
  • Elasticsearch
  • Keycloak
  • PingFederate
  • Okta
  • Auth0
Independently observed

Kuma

4 total - 2 not shared
  • Datadog
  • OpenTelemetry
Independently observed

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