Comparison

Open Service Mesh vs Tetrate Service Bridge

No leader: the top candidate Tetrate Service Bridge has only 0.31 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.

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Open Service Mesh41
Tetrate Service Bridge57
Score
vioscaleAI score
Open Service Mesh41 / 100medium · 53%
Tetrate Service Bridge57 / 100low · 31%
Pricing
Free tier
Open Service Mesh✓
Tetrate Service Bridge✗
Model
Open Service Meshopen_source
Tetrate Service Bridgecommercial
Price level
Open Service Meshfree
Tetrate Service Bridgeunknown
Transparent
Open Service Mesh–
Tetrate Service Bridge✗
Integrations
Count
Open Service Mesh8
Tetrate Service Bridge12
Security
Fedramp
Open Service Mesh–
Tetrate Service Bridge✓
Gdpr
Open Service Mesh–
Tetrate Service Bridge✓
Hipaa
Open Service Mesh–
Tetrate Service Bridge✓
Iso27001
Open Service Mesh–
Tetrate Service Bridge✓
Pci
Open Service Mesh–
Tetrate Service Bridge✓
Scorecard
Open Service Mesh4.8
Tetrate Service Bridge–
Soc2
Open Service Mesh–
Tetrate Service Bridge✓
Adoption
Dependent repos
Open Service Mesh15
Tetrate Service Bridge–
Github stars
Open Service Mesh2,553
Tetrate Service Bridge–
Activity
Commits last 30d
Open Service Mesh0
Tetrate Service Bridge–
Release
Cadence days
Open Service Mesh12
Tetrate Service Bridge–
History
Open Service Mesh20 items
Tetrate Service Bridge–
License
Spdx
Open Service MeshApache-2.0
Tetrate Service Bridge–
Language
Primary
Open Service MeshGo
Tetrate Service Bridge–
Market
Availability
Open Service MeshAvailable worldwide
Tetrate Service Bridge–
Content
Faq
Open Service Mesh6 items
Tetrate Service Bridge6 items

Capabilities

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

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

What each one is

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

Open Service Mesh

A cloud-native service mesh that injects Envoy proxies to manage traffic, enforce security policies, and provide observability across microservice environments on Kubernetes. It uses SMI APIs for configuration and supports automatic mutual TLS.

Independently observed

Tetrate Service Bridge

A marketplace where users can explore, deploy, and create custom filters for Envoy Proxy without barriers to entry.

Independently observed

Pricing

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

Open Service Mesh

Open source
as of verify ↗

Tetrate Service Bridge

Quote-based

Contact sales for pricing

  • Agent Router ServiceContact sales
  • Agent Router EnterpriseContact sales
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Platform & deployment

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

Platforms
CLI
Open Service Mesh✓
Tetrate Service Bridge✓
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Open Service Mesh✗
Tetrate Service Bridge✓
Self-hosted
Open Service Mesh✓
Tetrate Service Bridge✓
On-premise
Open Service Mesh✗
Tetrate Service Bridge✓
Hybrid
Open Service Mesh✗
Tetrate Service Bridge✓

Integrations

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

In common (2)
  • Envoy
  • Istio

Open Service Mesh

8 total - 6 not shared
  • Linkerd
  • Consul
  • Kuma
  • Helm
  • SMI specification
  • external certificate management systems
Independently observed

Tetrate Service Bridge

12 total - 10 not shared
  • AWS
  • AWS CloudMap
  • AWS AppMesh
  • Amazon EKS Distro
  • Amazon ECS Anywhere
  • Amazon EKS Anywhere
  • Kubernetes Gateway API
  • NGINX
  • LDAP
  • SSO
Independently observed
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