# Open Service Mesh

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/open-service-mesh/  
**Website:** https://openservicemesh.io  
**APIs profiled:** 1

Open Service Mesh (OSM) is a lightweight, extensible, cloud native service mesh built on Envoy and the Service Mesh Interface (SMI) specification. OSM provides traffic shifting, mutual TLS, access control, observability, and automatic sidecar injection for Kubernetes-based microservices. The project is now archived by the CNCF.

## Kin Score — 12.7 / 100 (emerging)

Scored 2026-08-25 under rubric 0.14.0. Trend: flat (+0.0 from 12.7).

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 59.3 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Contract Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 13.2 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 9.5 |
| Commercial Clarity | 15.8 |
| Access Clarity | 15.8 |

## Agent readiness — 2.5 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| Reversibility Documented | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | documented |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |
| Delegated Identity | no |
| Protected Resource Metadata | no |
| Dynamic Client Registration | no |
| Agentic Commerce | no |

## Access

Freemium — onboarding: unknown, pricing: freemium, trial: no (confidence: medium).

## APIs (1)

- **Open Service Mesh** — Service mesh control plane for Kubernetes that implements the Service Mesh Interface (SMI) specification, providing traffic management, security, and observability for microserv...

## Security (1)

- **Open Service Mesh Domain Security** — TLSv1.3 · HSTS

## Plans (1)

- **Open Service Mesh Plans Pricing**

## Tags

Cloud-Native, Envoy, Kubernetes, Microservices, Service Mesh, SMI

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/open-service-mesh/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.