# Gloo Mesh vs Greymatter

**Leader by Vioscale score:** Greymatter

| Attribute | Gloo Mesh | Greymatter |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 33.8 (33% (low)) | 53 (49% (low)) |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"air_gapped":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | Gloo Mesh is a service mesh platform offering both sidecar and sidecarless architecture options for Kubernetes environments, with built-in security policies for authentication, authorization, and rate limiting across distributed services. | 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. |
| features.capabilities | `{"proxy":"envoy","fips_mode":true,"data_plane":"ambient","multicluster":true,"automatic_mtls":true,"commercial_support":true,"built_in_observability":true}` | `{"fips_mode":true,"multicluster":true,"automatic_mtls":true,"traffic_splitting":true,"commercial_support":true,"built_in_observability":true}` |
| integrations.count | 4 | 9 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Istio"},{"name":"Envoy"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry"}]` | `[{"name":"Grafana"},{"name":"Kibana"},{"name":"Prometheus"},{"name":"Splunk"},{"name":"Elasticsearch"},{"name":"Keycloak"},{"name":"PingFederate"},{"name":"Okta"},{"name":"Auth0"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | - | `{"web":true}` |
| pricing | `{"type":"quote","summary":"Custom pricing based on deployment size and environment","sourceUrl":"https://www.solo.io/pricing","retrievedAt":"2026-08-14T21:37:44.694Z"}` | `{"type":"free","freeTier":true,"sourceUrl":"https://greymatter.io/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-13T18:19:59.123Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | - | yes |
| pricing.model | quote | free |
| pricing.price_level | unknown | free |
| pricing.transparent | no | no |
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |

## Capabilities (Service Mesh)

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

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T17:18:30.448Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*