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Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd
Plans and Pricing
Choose the plan that's right for you
Basic
For teams adopting modern platform security, reliability, and observability via the service mesh.
- Stable release artifacts
- Automated installs and upgrades
- SLAs on CVE remediation
- Mutual TLS and basic service mesh featureset
Premium
For companies standardizing on security, high availability, and multi-cluster communication.
Everything in Basic, plus:
- Multi-cluster communication
- L7 network security policies
- Automatic cross-cluster failover
- Support for Linux VM workloads
Strategic
For enterprises with special security, compliance, and additional operational requirements.
Everything in Premium, plus:
- Hotpatch releases and SBOMs
- High Availability Zone-aware Load Balancing (HAZL)
- FIPS 140-3 and 140-2 validated cryptography (optional)
- Enterprise support with 24x7 SLAs
Try it for free
Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd is always free to try. No plan required.
Companies with fewer than 50 employees can also run BEL for production use, at any scale.
What is production use?
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Open source
Basic
Premium
Strategic
Stability and Risk Reduction
Zero-downtime deploys and upgrades
Security
Zero-config encryption and authentication of all meshed traffic
Cryptographic workload identities, not IP addresses
Secure-by-default Rust data plane
Zero-trust granular authorization policies
Reliability
Latency-based load balancing
Timeouts and retries
Circuit breaking
gRPC load balancing
Blue-green / canary deploys
Traffic Routing
L7-aware request routing
Transparent multi-cluster communication
Federated services
VM application support
Observability
Uniform L7 metrics including success rates and latency distributions
Easy export to any Prometheus-compatible metrics store
Distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry)
Egress metrics
On cluster, “single pane of glass” dashboard
Standards
Gateway API support
Mutual TLS (mTLS) with TLS 1.3
IPv6
Compliance
Software Bills-of-Materials (SBOMs) for all components
Hotpatch releases
FIPS 140-2 and 140-3 validated cryptographic modules
Management with Buoyant Cloud (SaaS)
Single pane of glass multi-cluster dashboard
Continuous health checking
Alerts and metrics integration with Datadog, Teams, PagerDuty, and more
Cost reduction
Support and integration
Private support ticketing
24x7 on call SLAs
30-day "white glove" onboarding
Architecture review and best practice guidance
Legend:
Included
Available as add-on
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