Linkerd Plans Pricing
Linkerd is a CNCF-graduated open-source service mesh. The OSS edition is free under Apache 2.0. Production-grade hardened distribution and commercial support are offered by Buoyant under "Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd" (BEL). BEL has three commercial tiers — Basic, Premium, Strategic — plus a free tier for evaluation and for companies under 50 employees. Pricing is not publicly listed; sales contact required.
Linkerd Plans Pricing is the machine-readable pricing-plan profile for Linkerd on the APIs.io network, conforming to the API Commons Plans specification.
It defines 5 plans, covering freemium, subscription, and enterprise tiers, with named plans including Linkerd (Open Source), Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd — Free, Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd — Basic, Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd — Premium, Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd — Strategic.
Tagged areas include Kubernetes, mTLS, Observability, Security, and Service Mesh.
Plans
CNCF-graduated open-source service mesh under Apache License 2.0. Includes proxy, control plane, mTLS, multi-cluster, viz extension. Community support via Slack, GitHub, and Linkerd Forum.
- Open Source Linkerd
- Linkerd Proxy Admin API
- Linkerd Destination API
- Linkerd Identity API
- Community Support (Slack, GitHub, Linkerd Forum)
Buoyant's hardened, FIPS-capable distribution of Linkerd. Always free to try at any scale; companies with fewer than 50 employees can run BEL in production for free.
- BEL Free
- Hardened distribution
- Companies under 50 employees may use in production
Commercial tier for teams adopting modern platform security, reliability, and observability via the service mesh. Private support ticketing.
- Hardened, FIPS-capable BEL distribution
- Private support ticketing
- Security hotfixes
Commercial tier for companies standardizing on security, high availability, and multi-cluster communication.
- Multi-cluster + HA features
- Private support ticketing
- Production-grade SLAs
Commercial tier for enterprises with special security, compliance, and additional operational requirements. 24x7 on-call SLAs and 30-day "white glove" onboarding.
- 24x7 on-call SLA
- 30-day white-glove onboarding
- Architecture guidance
- Compliance / regulated-environment support
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Every plan here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.