No. 16 of 23 ·Chaos Engineering Platforms

Gremlin

Web · Windows · Linux · Self-hosted · API

Freedom report

Two barsScore 5.2

Free tierNo free tier on record
Open codeNo open-source code on record
Runs widely3 of 6 device platforms
DocumentedPlans, terms and facts published

Gremlin is ranked #16 of 23 in chaos engineering platforms on Freedom251. It runs on API, Linux, Self-hosted, Web, Windows. There is no free plan. A free trial is offered.

Gremlin plans and pricing

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Gremlin Platform trial Free 30-day free trial; no credit card; does not auto-convert Trial availability stated on pricing page gremlin.com · 2 Oct 2026

Gremlin Platform Not published Custom quote; priced per service Agents, targets, and test volume sized during pricing conversation gremlin.com · 2 Oct 2026

Fault injection suite (stand-alone) Not published Get a quote Enterprise fault injection suite gremlin.com · 2 Oct 2026

Gremlin Foresight AI Not published Custom quote; priced per team; adds to a new or existing platform license Unlimited team members; AI token allowance included gremlin.com · 2 Oct 2026

Compared on chaos engineering platforms

Free plan: No
Kubernetes support: Yes
Cloud fault injection: Yes
Network fault injection: Yes
Experiment scheduling: Yes
Deployment model: hybrid
Blast-radius controls: Yes

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The record

Purpose: Gremlin helps engineering teams find failure modes, fix them, and validate reliability before failures become outages.
Fault injection: The platform injects faults into services, hosts, containers, and serverless workloads to test system responses.
Safety controls: Gremlin supports blast radius controls and automatic halt and rollback of experiments if issues arise.
Scenarios and GameDays: Teams can sequence experiments into incident scenarios, schedule them, and use GameDay Manager to prepare, run, analyze, and store results.
Integrations: Documented integrations include Slack, Datadog, Dynatrace, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Grafana Cloud k6, Jira, and custom webhooks.
Supported environments: Gremlin supports public clouds including AWS, Azure, and GCP; Linux, Windows, Kubernetes, and on-premises deployments through Private Edition.
Self-hosting: Gremlin Private Edition is available as a self-hosted deployment for teams that cannot use SaaS.
Security: Gremlin states it is SOC 2 Type II certified and encrypts data in transit with TLS and at rest with AES-256.
Authentication and audit: The security page lists SAML 2, Google OAuth2, MFA for password logins, and administrator access logs in JSON format.
Reliability features: The Gremlin Platform includes dependency discovery, fault injection and scenarios, standardized test suites and reliability scores, disaster recovery testing, detected risks, and organization-wide benchmarking.
Intended users: Gremlin describes its users as SRE and platform teams, and says financial services, retail, media, and B2B SaaS companies use the product.
Pricing limit: Agents, targets, and test volume are sized with the customer as part of the platform license.
Founded: 2016

Where it ranks on Freedom251

Best Chaos Engineering Platforms in 2026#16 of 23

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Sources

gremlin.com/about· checked 2 Oct 2026
gremlin.com/product/chaos-engineering· checked 2 Oct 2026
gremlin.com/docs/platform-integrations· checked 2 Oct 2026
gremlin.com/pricing· checked 2 Oct 2026
gremlin.com/security· checked 2 Oct 2026