# Gloo Mesh vs Tetrate Service Bridge

| Attribute | Gloo Mesh | Tetrate Service Bridge |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 33.8 (33% (low)) | 54.7 (33% (low)) |
| deployment.options | `{"cloud":true,"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":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. | An enterprise AI gateway platform based on Envoy that manages language model access, cost control, and AI agent governance. Provides unified LLM catalog, automatic model fallback, token brokering, AI guardrails, and MCP gateway capabilities. |
| features.capabilities | `{"proxy":"envoy","fips_mode":true,"data_plane":"ambient","multicluster":true,"automatic_mtls":true,"commercial_support":true,"built_in_observability":true}` | `{"proxy":"envoy","fips_mode":true,"vm_support":true,"multicluster":true,"automatic_mtls":true,"commercial_support":true,"gateway_api_support":true,"built_in_observability":true}` |
| integrations.count | 4 | 12 |
| integrations.list | `[{"name":"Istio"},{"name":"Envoy"},{"name":"Kubernetes"},{"name":"OpenTelemetry"}]` | `[{"name":"AWS"},{"name":"AWS CloudMap"},{"name":"AWS AppMesh"},{"name":"Amazon EKS Distro"},{"name":"Amazon ECS Anywhere"},{"name":"Amazon EKS Anywhere"},{"name":"Istio"},{"name":"Envoy"},{"name":"Kubernetes Gateway API"},{"name":"NGINX"},{"name":"LDAP"},{"name":"SSO"}]` |
| market.availability | `{"hqCountry":"US","primaryMarkets":["US"],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` | - |
| platform.support | - | `{"linux":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":"quote","plans":[{"free":false,"name":"Agent Router Service","contactSales":true},{"free":false,"name":"Agent Router Enterprise","contactSales":true}],"summary":"Contact sales for pricing","freeTier":false,"sourceUrl":"https://tetrate.io/tetrate-service-bridge/","retrievedAt":"2026-08-03T13:02:27.685Z"}` |
| pricing.free_tier | - | no |
| pricing.model | quote | commercial |
| pricing.price_level | unknown | unknown |
| pricing.transparent | no | no |
| security.fedramp | - | yes |
| security.gdpr | - | yes |
| security.hipaa | - | yes |
| security.iso27001 | - | yes |
| security.soc2 | yes | yes |

## Capabilities (Service Mesh)

| Capability | Gloo Mesh | Tetrate Service Bridge |
|---|:--:|:--:|
| **Architecture** |  |  |
| Data plane | Ambient | - |
| 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 2026-09-01T16:47:18.543Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*