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No. 9 of 18 ·Service Mesh Platforms

Google Cloud Service Mesh

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Two barsScore 6.3

  • Free tierA free tier is on its own pricing page
  • Open codeNo open-source code on record
  • Runs widely1 of 6 device platforms
  • DocumentedPlans, terms and facts published

Google Cloud Service Mesh is ranked #9 of 18 in service mesh platforms on Freedom251. It runs on Web. There is no free plan.

Google Cloud Service Mesh plans and pricing

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Cloud Service Mesh standalone usage Free Each client is charged at $0.0006945 per hour. Managed control plane · Telemetry dashboards · Managed certificate authority with no per-certificate charge cloud.google.com · 20 Sept 2026

Compared on service mesh platforms

Free plan
No
Paid from
$0.50/mo
Deployment model
hybrid
Proxy architecture
both
mTLS support
Yes
Traffic policies
Yes
Multi-cluster support
Yes
Supported platforms
GKE on Google Cloud; Google Distributed Cloud software-only for VMware; Google Distributed Cloud software-only for bare metal; GKE on AWS; GKE on Azure; Amazon EKS; Microsoft AKS

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