Kuma Plans Pricing
Kuma is an open-source CNCF Sandbox service mesh built on Envoy, originally created by Kong, Inc. and freely available under Apache-2.0. Kong's commercial offering on top of Kuma is Kong Mesh, distributed under enterprise terms negotiated with Kong; Kong Mesh pricing is not publicly listed.
Kuma Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Kuma on the APIs.io network, in the API Commons Plans shape.
It defines 2 plans, covering freemium and enterprise tiers, with named plans including Kuma (Open Source), Kong Mesh (Enterprise distribution of Kuma).
This profile was written by API Evangelist and has not been verified against a page the provider published; treat every figure as unconfirmed until a dated transcription replaces it.
Tagged areas include Service Mesh, Open Source, Envoy, and CNCF.
generated, dated 2026-05-05.
Plans
Apache-2.0 licensed open-source service mesh; no vendor charge.
- Universal control plane (Kubernetes + VMs)
- Multi-zone / multi-cluster
- Built-in policies (mTLS, traffic permissions, traffic routing)
- Envoy data plane
- REST API control plane
- GUI dashboard
Kong's commercial distribution of Kuma, sold by Kong, Inc. under an enterprise agreement. Adds enterprise support, FIPS-compliant builds, OPA integration, and Kong support SLAs. Pricing not publicly published.
- Enterprise support and SLAs
- FIPS 140-2 compliant builds
- OPA policy integration
- Role-based access control
- Hardened container images
Sources
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