Comparison

MOSN vs Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

No leader: the top candidate Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh has only 0.26 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.

Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
MOSN35
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh51
Score
Vioscale score
MOSN35 / 100medium · 54%
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh51 / 100low · 26%
Pricing
Free tier
MOSN
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Model
Red Hat OpenShift Service Meshcommercial
Price level
MOSNfree
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Integrations
Count
MOSN6
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh8
Security
Disclosure policy
MOSN
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Scorecard
MOSN3.4
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Reliability
Status page
MOSN
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Adoption
Dependent repos
MOSN22
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Github stars
MOSN4,508
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Activity
Commits last 30d
MOSN0
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Release
Cadence days
MOSN62
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
History
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
License
Spdx
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Language
Primary
MOSNGo
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

Capabilities

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

Architecture
Data plane
MOSNSidecar
Red Hat OpenShift Service MeshSidecar
Proxy
MOSNEnvoy
Red Hat OpenShift Service MeshEnvoy
Security
Automatic mutual TLS
MOSN-
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
SPIFFE / SPIRE identity
MOSN-
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh-
Traffic
Traffic splitting / canary
MOSN
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Fault injection / resilience
MOSN-
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh-
Scale
Multi-cluster federation
MOSN
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Portability
VM support (beyond Kubernetes)
MOSN
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh-
Observability
Built-in observability
MOSN
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Standards
Gateway API / GAMMA support
MOSN-
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh-
Extensibility
WASM extensibility
MOSN
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh-
Compliance
FIPS mode
MOSN-
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh-
Ecosystem
CNCF maturity
MOSN-
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh-
Ops
Commercial support / enterprise edition
MOSN-
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

What each one is

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

MOSN

A cloud-native network proxy platform written in Go, open-sourced by Ant Group and production-verified at scale. Supports multi-protocol communication and can integrate with Istio for Service Mesh or operate independently as a load balancer, API gateway, or Ingress controller.

Independently observed

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

Not documented yet.

Pricing

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

MOSN

Open source
as of verify ↗

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

Pricing not documented yet.

Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
Linux
MOSN
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
CLI
MOSN
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
MOSN
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
Self-hosted
MOSN
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh
On-premise
MOSN
Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

Integrations

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

In common (2)
  • Istio
  • Envoy

MOSN

6 total - 4 not shared
  • Jaeger
  • Skywalking
  • Prometheus
  • Holmes
Independently observed

Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

8 total - 6 not shared
  • Kiali
  • Red Hat Connectivity Link
  • Red Hat OpenShift Observability
  • cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift
  • Red Hat OpenShift Gitops
  • Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization
Independently observed

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