# Gloo Mesh vs Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh

| Attribute | Gloo Mesh | Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 33.8 (33% (low)) | 50.6 (26% (low)) |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"on_prem":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. | - |
| features.capabilities | `{"proxy":"envoy","fips_mode":true,"data_plane":"ambient","multicluster":true,"automatic_mtls":true,"commercial_support":true,"built_in_observability":true}` | `{"proxy":"envoy","data_plane":"sidecar","multicluster":true,"automatic_mtls":true,"traffic_splitting":true,"commercial_support":true,"built_in_observability":true}` |
| integrations.count | 4 | 8 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Istio"},{"name":"Envoy"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry"}]` | `[{"name":"Istio"},{"name":"Envoy"},{"name":"Kiali"},{"name":"Red Hat Connectivity Link"},{"name":"Red Hat OpenShift Observability"},{"name":"cert-manager Operator for Red Hat OpenShift"},{"name":"Red Hat OpenShift Gitops"},{"name":"Red Hat OpenShift Virtualization"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | - | `{"cli":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"}` | - |
| pricing.model | quote | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | unknown | - |
| pricing.transparent | no | - |
| reliability.status_page | - | yes |
| security.disclosure_policy | - | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | - |

## Capabilities (Service Mesh)

| Capability | Gloo Mesh | Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Data plane | Ambient | Sidecar |
| Proxy | Envoy | 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 2026-09-01T17:32:54.197Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*