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Reliably vs Toxiproxy

Both stand on chaos engineering platforms. Which one you can start free with, which one lets you read the code, and what each costs once you pay.

Reliably

Free plan LinuxMacSelf-hosted+2

Reliably offers experiment creation, execution, and safety controls for resilience work. The Free plan has tight team, execution, and retention limits; paid plans start at £40 a month.

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Toxiproxy gives developers control over TCP connection conditions for failure testing in development and CI. Keep its unauthenticated API away from untrusted networks, and match client-library versions to the server.

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The facts

	Reliably	Toxiproxy
Free plan	Yes	Yes
Open source	Not published	Not published
Runs on	Linux, Mac, Self-hosted, Web, Windows	API, Linux, Mac, Self-hosted, Windows
Lowest paid plan	Start: £40 a month	Free or on request
Plans published	4	1
Maker	Not published	Not published
Website	reliably.com	github.com
On chaos engineering platforms	#9 of 25	#13 of 25

Reliably: what it does well

Experiment builder includes more than 300 actions
Supports importing JSON Chaos Toolkit experiments
Pre-checks and safeguards can limit experiment runs
Execution options include CLI, Docker, and Kubernetes

What to know first

Free plan allows one team member
Free cloud execution is capped at 180 minutes monthly
Free cloud runs have a 10-minute limit
Free data retention is two weeks

Toxiproxy: what it does well

Free with an MIT license.
Simulates latency, jitter, packet loss, and other conditions.
Provides API, CLI, and language client libraries.
Exposes Prometheus-compatible metrics.
Runs on Linux, macOS, and Windows.

What to know first

HTTP API is unauthenticated by default.
Version 2.x is incompatible with version 1.x clients.
Not designed for cloud fault injection.
Ephemeral ports can cause random port conflicts.

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