Istio Plans Pricing
Istio is a free, open-source service mesh project hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and licensed under Apache License 2.0. There is no paid Istio plan, no per-API-call charge, and no central billing entity. Cost is borne by the operator running Istio (compute, observability backends, support contracts from third-party distributions such as Solo.io Gloo Mesh, Tetrate Service Bridge, Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh, or hyperscaler-managed Istio offerings).
Istio Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Istio on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 1 plan, covering freemium tiers, with named plans including Istio (Open Source).
Tagged areas include Service Mesh, Open Source, Networking, Kubernetes, and CNCF.
Plans
Apache 2.0-licensed open source service mesh. Free to download, run, and modify.
- Apache 2.0 license
- CNCF graduated project
- Networking, security, observability APIs
- Community support via istio.io and Slack
- Optional commercial distributions from Solo.io, Tetrate, Red Hat, hyperscalers
Sources
- https://istio.io/
- https://istio.io/latest/about/faq/
- https://github.com/istio/istio/blob/master/LICENSE
Work with this as data
Every plan here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.
MCP server
One button, every client — Claude, Cursor, VS Code and the rest.
https://apis.io/mcp
Tools for plans
4 MCP tools reach this
find_plansBrowse and filter every plan in the catalog.apis_io_searchSTART HERE — APIs, providers and tags for one query, each with its total.resolveTurn a domain, URL or GitHub org into the provider it belongs to.find_cohortsEvery scored population of providers in the catalog.
Call it yourself
curl for this page
curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/plans/istio-plans-pricing"curl "https://apis.io/api/v1/plans?limit=25"Discovery needs no key. Ratings and market analysis are Pro.