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Aeraki Mesh

Manage Any Layer-7 Protocols in a Service Mesh

Also known as
aeraki-mesh

What is Aeraki Mesh?

Aeraki Mesh is an open-source project for managing layer-7 protocols in a service mesh, supporting Dubbo, Thrift, Redis, Kafka, ZooKeeper, and custom protocols through the MetaProtocol framework.

Independently observed

Aeraki Mesh pricing

We don't have Aeraki Mesh's full plan breakdown yet (its pricing page resisted automated reading). Here's what we could confirm. Always check live pricing for exact numbers.

What Aeraki Mesh does

The capabilities that matter for service mesh, normalised so it lines up with every alternative. “-” means we haven't confirmed it, not that it's missing.

Architecture
Data plane
-
Proxy
-
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
Sandbox
Ops
Commercial support / enterprise edition
-
Independently observed

Platform & deployment

Independently observed
Deployment
  • Self-hosted

Integrations (1)

Independently observed
  • Istio

Aeraki Mesh alternatives

Other service mesh we track, ranked by the same independent score.

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The Vioscale score: one lens on the evidence

Not user reviews and not a paid placement: a confidence-weighted blend of the independent signals below (adoption, activity, security posture, and more), which you can sort and re-weight yourself. Vendors can correct their listing but can never move their rank, and stars are weighted low as a vanity metric. It is one way to read the evidence for Aeraki Mesh, not the verdict.

Balanced composite 30 / 100
low · 7%
Signal contributions to the composite score
SignalScoreWeightContributionEvidence
Capabilities5812.00693.8
Integrations916.00138.5
Github Stars05.000.0-
Github Activity018.000.0-
Release Cadence010.000.0-
Security Posture022.000.0-
Package Downloads026.000.0-
Stackoverflow Activity012.000.0-

Computed . Re-weight it by intent, or see the full method.

All data & sourcesshow ↓

Every value we hold, with its source, retrieval date, and confidence. This is the evidence behind the score: don't trust it, verify it.

Features

AttributeValueEvidence
Capabilities{"cncf_maturity":"sandbox","fault_injection":true,"traffic_splitting":true,"built_in_observability":true}mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Integrations

AttributeValueEvidence
Count1mediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%

Pricing

AttributeValueEvidence
Free tierYesmediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
Modelopen_sourcemediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%
Price levelfreemediumsource · 2026-08-03 · 60%