# PowerfulSeal vs Steadybit

**Leader by Vioscale score:** PowerfulSeal

| Attribute | PowerfulSeal | Steadybit |
|---|---|---|
| **Vioscale score** | 52.1 (56% (medium)) | 16.2 (78% (high)) |
| adoption.github_stars | 1,980 | - |
| deployment.options | `{"self_hosted":true}` | `{"cloud":true,"hybrid":true,"on_prem":true,"air_gapped":true,"self_hosted":true}` |
| description.long | 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. | Steadybit enables teams to proactively identify and remediate system vulnerabilities by injecting faults into their infrastructure across cloud, on-premises, and air-gapped environments. The platform includes AI-assisted guidance, experiment templates, and compliance controls for scaling reliability testing across organizations. |
| integrations.count | 7 | 52 |
| 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"}]` |
| language.primary | Python | - |
| license.spdx | Apache-2.0 | - |
| market.availability | - | `{"hqCountry":"DE","primaryMarkets":[],"availabilityScope":"global","availableCountries":[],"notAvailableCountries":[]}` |
| platform.support | `{"cli":true}` | `{"web":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 | no |
| pricing.model | commercial | quote |
| pricing.price_level | free | unknown |
| pricing.transparent | - | no |
| 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 | - |

## Capabilities (Chaos Engineering)

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

*Source: Vioscale. Generated 2026-09-01T16:44:30.118Z. "-" = undocumented, not absent.*