Gloo Mesh
Gloo Mesh is Solo.io's enterprise service mesh management platform, built on Istio and shipped as Kubernetes software you run in your own clusters. It provides multi-cluster and multi-mesh traffic management, security policy enforcement, workload identity and observability, with a management plane in one cluster and relay-connected agents in each workload cluster. Its API surface is not an HTTP endpoint but 70 Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions across 13 API groups — AccessPolicy, JWTPolicy, RateLimitPolicy, RouteTable, VirtualDestination, VirtualGateway, Workspace and the rest — each carrying an OpenAPI v3 structural schema and CEL validation rules, generated from 92 public protobuf definitions. Solo.io distributes it as the gloo-platform Helm charts and the meshctl CLI, documents it at docs.solo.io/gloo-mesh-enterprise, and runs an unauthenticated remote MCP server over its documentation corpus.
Gloo Mesh is listed with 2 APIs on the APIs.io network. Tagged areas include Istio, Kubernetes, Multi-Cluster, Open Source, and Service Mesh.
Gloo Mesh’s developer surface includes documentation, API reference, getting-started guide, engineering blog, changelog, support, pricing, and 41 more developer resources.
Kin Score
Markets this provider is in provisional
The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.
| Market | Position | Depth | Registered MCP server | Declares compatibility |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| API Management (gateways, portals, service mesh, proxies) | standard | 17.2 (thin) | - | - |
| Buf Schema Registry (public Protocol Buffers modules, gRPC / ConnectRPC schema publishers) | standard | 17.2 (thin) | - | - |
Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.
Standards implemented 1
Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.
APIs 2
Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.
Gloo Mesh Enterprise
Gloo Mesh Enterprise (documented as "Gloo Mesh (Gloo Platform APIs)", current version 2.14, released 2026-09-09) is a service mesh management platform built on Istio that provid...
Gloo Mesh Core
Gloo Mesh Core extended a single Istio service mesh with insights, operational tooling and lifecycle management for upstream Istio. Solo.io has RETIRED the standalone Gloo Mesh ...
MCP Servers 1
Model Context Protocol servers that expose these APIs to AI agents.
Agent Skills 3
Packaged agent skills for driving this provider's APIs from an AI assistant.
gloo-mesh-apply-a-policy
AGENT SKILLgloo-mesh-register-a-workload-cluster
AGENT SKILLgloo-mesh-search-product-docs
AGENT SKILLGloo Mesh API pricing
Prices published by Gloo Mesh, read 2026-10-28 from www.solo.io/pricing.
| Plan | Price |
|---|---|
| Enterprise | Contact sales |
Pricing Plans 1
Published pricing tiers and plan structures.
Rate Limits 1
Documented rate limits and quota policies.
Gloo Mesh Rate Limits
RATE LIMITSTerms of Service 1
What its API terms permit and prohibit, quoted from its own page.
Privacy & Data 1
Its role, the data it processes, retention and transfers, quoted from its own privacy page.
Deprecation Policy 1
Notice periods, support windows and the headers it sends, quoted from its own page.
Compliance 1
Attestations the provider states (SOC 2, ISO 27001 and others), quoted from its own trust page. APIs.io verifies none of them.
Eligibility 1
Who may sign up and where, quoted from its own terms.
AI Preferences 1
Its stance on AI training, inference and agents, quoted from its own pages.
Data License 1
How its data and outputs may be reused, quoted from its own terms.
FinOps 1
Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.
Gloo Mesh Finops
FINOPSSecurity Posture 4
Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.
Kubernetes CRDs 16
Kubernetes Custom Resource Definitions published by this provider.
gloo mesh admin gloo solo io crds
CRDgloo mesh apimanagement gloo solo io crds
CRDgloo mesh crd index
CRDgloo mesh extauth solo io v1 crds
CRDgloo mesh extensions policy gloo solo io crds
CRDgloo mesh gatewaylifecyclemanagers admin gloo solo io crds
CRDgloo mesh infrastructure gloo solo io crds
CRDgloo mesh install istio io v1alpha1 crds
CRDgloo mesh internal gloo solo io crds
CRDgloo mesh istiolifecyclemanagers admin gloo solo io crds
CRDgloo mesh networking gloo solo io crds
CRDgloo mesh observability policy gloo solo io crds
CRDgloo mesh ratelimit solo io v1alpha1 crds
CRDgloo mesh resilience policy gloo solo io crds
CRDgloo mesh security policy gloo solo io crds
CRDgloo mesh trafficcontrol policy gloo solo io crds
CRDScroll for all 16
Resources
Get Started 4
Portal, sign-up, and the first successful call
Documentation 3
Reference material describing how the API behaves
Agent Surfaces 3
MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs
Design & Contract 6
Pagination, idempotency, versioning, errors, and events
Build 4
SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with
Access & Security 5
Authentication, authorization, and security posture
Operate 8
Status, limits, changes, and where to get help
Scroll for all 8
Commercial 7
Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use
Scroll for all 7
Company 2
The organization behind the API
Other 6
Properties that don't map to a standard resource type
Source (apis.yml)
Gloo Mesh API — frequently asked questions
Does Gloo Mesh have an API?
Yes. APIs.io lists 2 APIs from Gloo Mesh, including Gloo Mesh Enterprise and Gloo Mesh Core.
How do I authenticate with the Gloo Mesh API?
Gloo Mesh uses bearer-token authentication (kubernetes-rbac/mutual-tls/license-key/oidc · 5 schemes). The details are profiled on APIs.io as Gloo Mesh Authentication.
How much does the Gloo Mesh API cost?
APIs.io lists 1 pricing plan for Gloo Mesh, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.
Does Gloo Mesh have an MCP server?
Yes. APIs.io lists 1 MCP server for Gloo Mesh: Remote MCP server at search.solo.io over HTTP; 3 tools listed.
Is the Gloo Mesh API ready for AI agents?
Gloo Mesh has a Kin Score of 51.9 out of 100 (developing) and an Agent Readiness score of 29.3 (agent-ready), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-13.
Work with this as data
Every provider here is available over the APIs.io API and to AI agents over MCP.