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, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 2 plans, covering freemium and enterprise tiers, with named plans including Kuma (Open Source), Kong Mesh (Enterprise distribution of Kuma).
Tagged areas include Service Mesh, Open Source, Envoy, and CNCF.
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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Every plan here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.