Cilium vs Consul
CiliumContainer Networking
Free (open source)Published price
ConsulService Mesh Platforms
Cilium Container Networking eBPF-based networking, observability, and security for Kubernetes. | Consul Service Mesh Platforms Service networking across clouds. | |
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| Overview | ||
| Category | Container Networking | Service Mesh Platforms |
| What it is | Cilium is an open-source eBPF-based networking, observability, and security platform for Kubernetes and cloud-native environments. | HashiCorp Consul provides service discovery, service mesh, and configuration management for distributed systems across clouds and runtimes. |
| Pricing | ||
| Published price | Free (open source) Cilium is a CNCF graduated open-source project under Apache 2.0 with no license fee or paid tier on the upstream project. Commercial hardened distributions and 24x7 support are so… | Open Source: Free (BSL license) HCP Consul: From $0.018/hour per server Enterprise: Custom pricing |
| Pricing model | Free | Not available |
| Free options | Free plan · Free trial | Free plan · Free trial |
| Deal on Cubbie | None right now | None right now |
| Company | ||
| Founded | 2016 | 2014 |
| Team size | 51-200 employees | 1,001-5,000 employees |
| Headquarters | Remote (CNCF/Isovalent) | San Francisco, California |
| Featured clients | Google, Bell Canada, Sky | Stripe, Salesforce, Cisco |