# PowerfulSeal vs Steadybit

**Leader by vioscaleAI score:** PowerfulSeal

| Attribute | PowerfulSeal | Steadybit |
|---|---|---|
| **vioscaleAI score** | 46.7 (53% (medium)) | 40.4 (14% (low)) |
| adoption.dependent_repos | 0 | - |
| adoption.github_stars | 1,986 | - |
| content.faq | `[{"answer":"Open-source testing tool that injects controlled failures into Kubernetes environments using YAML policy files, allowing teams to identify system weaknesses and validate recovery capabilities before issues reach production. It is indexed under Chaos Engineering.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"What is PowerfulSeal?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"PowerfulSeal is open source, so it can be self-hosted and used at no licence cost. It is released under the Apache-2.0 licence. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"Is PowerfulSeal free to use?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"PowerfulSeal supports a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"What platforms does PowerfulSeal support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. PowerfulSeal can be deployed self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"Can PowerfulSeal be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 7 integrations for PowerfulSeal, including Kubernetes, OpenStack, AWS, Azure, GCP, Prometheus and Datadog. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://github.com/pricing","question":"What does PowerfulSeal integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. PowerfulSeal is published under the Apache-2.0 licence, a permissive licence that generally allows commercial use and modification. Licence terms can change between releases, so verify against the repository for the version you intend to use.","source":"https://github.com/powerfulseal/powerfulseal","question":"Is PowerfulSeal open source?","confidence":0.95}]` | `[{"answer":"A command-line tool that analyzes Kubernetes object definitions to detect issues and provide recommendations for improved deployments. It integrates into CI/CD pipelines and exits with configurable status codes to prevent problematic configurations from being deployed. It is indexed under Chaos Engineering.","source":"https://steadybit.com","question":"What is Steadybit?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Steadybit does not publish its prices. Pricing is quoted on request, across 2 plans (Professional and Enterprise), so the figure depends on your seat count and requirements. We record this as a pricing-transparency signal rather than guessing a number. Pricing changes often, so verify at source before relying on it.","source":"https://steadybit.com/pricing/","question":"How much does Steadybit cost?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Steadybit supports Windows, macOS, Linux and a command-line interface. Platforms we have not confirmed are simply not listed here rather than ruled out.","source":"https://steadybit.com","question":"What platforms does Steadybit support?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Yes. Steadybit can be deployed self-hosted, so it does not have to run on the vendor's infrastructure.","source":"https://steadybit.com","question":"Can Steadybit be self-hosted?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"We have confirmed 50 integrations for Steadybit, including AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS), AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS), AWS Lambda, AWS Elastic Load Balancers, AWS ElastiCache, AWS Fault Injection Service and AWS Managed Streaming for Kafka, plus 42 more. This is what we could verify from public sources, so the vendor may support others we have not indexed.","source":"https://steadybit.com","question":"What does Steadybit integrate with?","confidence":0.6},{"answer":"Steadybit is available worldwide. The vendor is headquartered in Germany.","source":"https://steadybit.com/pricing/","question":"Where is Steadybit available?","confidence":0.75}]` |
| deployment.options | `{"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true}` |
| description.long | A testing framework that deliberately triggers failures in Kubernetes and OpenStack environments to validate system resilience and discover potential weaknesses before they impact production. | Analyzes Kubernetes YAML and Helm charts to identify potential reliability and security issues, with recommendations for improvements. |
| features.capabilities | `{"open_source":true,"pricing_model":"open_source","deployment_model":"self_hosted","kubernetes_native":true,"experiment_as_code":true,"fault_injection_scope":"kubernetes/container","observability_integration":true}` | `{"kubernetes_native":true}` |
| integrations.count | 7 | 2 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"OpenStack"},{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"Azure"},{"name":"GCP"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"Datadog"}]` | `[{"name":"AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2)"},{"name":"AWS Elastic Kubernetes Service (EKS)"},{"name":"AWS Elastic Container Service (ECS)"},{"name":"AWS Lambda"},{"name":"AWS Elastic Load Balancers"},{"name":"AWS ElastiCache"},{"name":"AWS Fault Injection Service"},{"name":"AWS Managed Streaming for Kafka"},{"name":"AWS Relational Database Service"},{"name":"Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)"},{"name":"Azure Virtual Machines"},{"name":"Azure Functions"},{"name":"Azure Event Hub"},{"name":"Azure Container Apps"},{"name":"Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE)"},{"name":"GCP Virtual Machines"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"Docker"},{"name":"containerd"},{"name":"CRI-O"},{"name":"Red Hat OpenShift"},{"name":"minikube"},{"name":"NGINX"},{"name":"HA Proxy"},{"name":"Apache Kafka"},{"name":"RabbitMQ"},{"name":"Apache JMeter"},{"name":"Gatling"},{"name":"K6"},{"name":"Postman"},{"name":"Datadog"},{"name":"Grafana"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"New Relic"},{"name":"Dynatrace"},{"name":"Splunk"},{"name":"AppDynamics"},{"name":"Instana"},{"name":"StackState"},{"name":"Jenkins"},{"name":"GitHub"},{"name":"Slack"},{"name":"Kong"},{"name":"Istio"},{"name":"Spring Applications"},{"name":"Java Virtual Machines"},{"name":"Linux"},{"name":"Ubuntu"},{"name":"Debian"},{"name":"Fedora"},{"name":"Helm"}]` |
| language.primary | Python | - |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | - |
| market.availability | - | `{"hqCountry":"DE","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true}` | `{"cli":true,"linux":true,"windows":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"open_source","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://github.com/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-18T12:47:42.590Z"}` | `{"type":"quote","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Professional","features":["Landscape Explorer","Reliability Advice","Experiment Templates","Unlimited Agents & Targets","Unlimited Users & Teams","Unlimited Experiment Executions","Experiment Scheduling","Standard Customer Support (9-5)"],"description":"For teams getting started with chaos engineering that want to easily launch experiments","contactSales":true},{"free":false,"name":"Enterprise","features":["Reporting","Custom Property Management","Pre-flight webhooks","Custom webhooks","On-Prem Installation","SAML","Audit log","Tailored Onboarding","Enterprise Support","Strategic Partner Program"],"description":"For organizations rolling out chaos engineering at scale that need a full reliability platform","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Pricing available by request. 30-day free trial included.","freeTier":false,"sourceUrl":"https://steadybit.com/pricing/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-18T12:51:42.301Z","freeTrialDays":30}` |
| pricing.free_tier | yes | yes |
| pricing.model | open_source | open_source |
| pricing.price_level | free | free |
| pricing.transparent | yes | yes |
| release.cadence_days | 4 | - |
| release.history | `[{"url":"https://github.com/powerfulseal/powerfulseal/releases/tag/3.3.0","date":"2021-09-17T16:53:43Z","type":"stable","version":"3.3.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/powerfulseal/powerfulseal/releases/tag/3.2.0","date":"2021-04-06T09:47:13Z","type":"stable","version":"3.2.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/powerfulseal/powerfulseal/releases/tag/3.1.1","date":"2020-08-25T09:35:54Z","type":"stable","version":"3.1.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/powerfulseal/powerfulseal/releases/tag/3.1.0","date":"2020-08-23T10:20:05Z","type":"stable","version":"3.1.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/powerfulseal/powerfulseal/releases/tag/3.0.1","date":"2020-08-06T15:00:50Z","type":"stable","version":"3.0.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/powerfulseal/powerfulseal/releases/tag/3.0.0","date":"2020-08-05T11:59:31Z","type":"stable","version":"3.0.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/powerfulseal/powerfulseal/releases/tag/3.0.0rc13","date":"2020-08-05T10:19:25Z","type":"prerelease","version":"3.0.0rc13"},{"url":"https://github.com/powerfulseal/powerfulseal/releases/tag/3.0.0rc12","date":"2020-07-22T09:11:55Z","type":"prerelease","version":"3.0.0rc12"},{"url":"https://github.com/powerfulseal/powerfulseal/releases/tag/3.0.0rc11","date":"2020-07-16T11:07:58Z","type":"prerelease","version":"3.0.0rc11"},{"url":"https://github.com/powerfulseal/powerfulseal/releases/tag/3.0.0rc10","date":"2020-07-14T11:16:49Z","type":"prerelease","version":"3.0.0rc10"},{"url":"https://github.com/powerfulseal/powerfulseal/releases/tag/3.0.0rc9","date":"2020-06-15T18:01:14Z","type":"prerelease","version":"3.0.0rc9"},{"url":"https://github.com/powerfulseal/powerfulseal/releases/tag/3.0.0rc8","date":"2020-06-10T13:52:48Z","type":"prerelease","version":"3.0.0rc8"},{"url":"https://github.com/powerfulseal/powerfulseal/releases/tag/3.0.0rc4","date":"2020-06-10T08:00:59Z","type":"prerelease","version":"3.0.0rc4"},{"url":"https://github.com/powerfulseal/powerfulseal/releases/tag/3.0.0rc3","date":"2020-06-09T19:15:17Z","type":"prerelease","version":"3.0.0rc3"},{"url":"https://github.com/powerfulseal/powerfulseal/releases/tag/3.0.0rc2","date":"2020-06-09T18:50:11Z","type":"prerelease","version":"3.0.0rc2"},{"url":"https://github.com/powerfulseal/powerfulseal/releases/tag/3.0.0rc1","date":"2020-06-09T15:08:41Z","type":"prerelease","version":"3.0.0rc1"},{"url":"https://github.com/powerfulseal/powerfulseal/releases/tag/3.0.0rc0","date":"2020-06-05T13:20:26Z","type":"prerelease","version":"3.0.0rc0"},{"url":"https://github.com/powerfulseal/powerfulseal/releases/tag/2.9.1","date":"2020-06-02T22:13:39Z","type":"stable","version":"2.9.1"},{"url":"https://github.com/powerfulseal/powerfulseal/releases/tag/2.9.0","date":"2020-04-04T10:07:50Z","type":"stable","version":"2.9.0"},{"url":"https://github.com/powerfulseal/powerfulseal/releases/tag/2.8.0","date":"2019-11-20T08:36:05Z","type":"stable","version":"2.8.0"}]` | - |
| security.scorecard | 4.2 | - |
| security.trust_center | https://github.com/security | - |
| security.vulnerabilities | `{"count":0,"source":"https://advisories.ecosyste.ms/api/v1/advisories?ecosystem=go&package_name=github.com%2Fpowerfulseal%2Fpowerfulseal&per_page=100","last_12m":0,"max_severity":null}` | - |

## Capabilities (Chaos Engineering)

| Capability | PowerfulSeal | Steadybit |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Capabilities** |  |  |
| Fault injection scope | Kubernetes/container | - |
| Blast radius control | - | - |
| Automated abort safety | - | - |
| Kubernetes native | ✓ | ✓ |
| Scheduling gameday orchestration | - | - |
| Observability integration | ✓ | - |
| Experiment as code | ✓ | - |
| Agent based | - | - |
| RBAC access control | - | - |
| Deployment model | Self hosted | - |
| SOC2 | - | - |
| Open source | ✓ | - |
| Pricing model | Open source | - |

*Source: vioscaleAI. Generated 2026-10-16T19:02:57.115Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*