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Gloo Mesh

bySolo.io
in Service Mesh
4.8

Overview

Product Information on Gloo Mesh

Updated 13th October 2025

What is Gloo Mesh?

Gloo Mesh is a software developed to manage, secure, and monitor service mesh environments across multiple clusters and platforms. The software provides capabilities for traffic management, security policy enforcement, and observability to ensure consistent operations in distributed microservices architectures. Gloo Mesh enables integration of disparate service meshes and facilitates streamlined control over API traffic between services. The software addresses business challenges related to application connectivity, security, and reliability within cloud-native and hybrid environments by offering centralized configuration, automation features, and tools for troubleshooting network communication issues. It supports organizations in improving efficiency in deploying and managing complex application infrastructures.

Gloo Mesh Pricing

Gloo Mesh software employs a tiered subscription-based pricing model structured around features, usage levels, and enterprise requirements. The software offers variations such as free community editions and paid plans, with pricing details typically tailored for business needs based on environment size, support options, and deployment specifications. Enterprise plan pricing generally requires direct consultation for custom quotes.

Overall experience with Gloo Mesh

Engineer
10B - 30B USD, Travel and Hospitality
FAVORABLE

“Best Service Mesh Support in the Business”

5.0
Jun 24, 2025
The experience has overall been great with Solo.io, they've been receptive to suggestions and have been very helpful in understanding service mesh as we implement for our Org.
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Company Description

Updated 5th November 2024

Established in 2017 and based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Solo.io's Gloo Platform serves as a consolidated, multi-cloud application networking platform, integrating API Gateway, Kubernetes Ingress, Service Mesh, and Cloud-native Networking technologies. Its main objective is to infuse distributed applications with zero-trust security, supporting secure communication in dynamic settings. The platform features Gloo Gateway for secure and scalable API gateway architectures, Gloo Mesh for managing service mesh for containers and virtual machines across diverse environments, and Gloo Network for networking, packet filtering and observability in modern applications. Its solutions, built upon Istio and Envoy Proxy, aim for simplified operations with unified control, reliability, observability, extensibility and security.

Company Details

Updated 26th February 2025
Company type
Private
Year Founded
2017
Head office location
Cambridge, United States
Number of employees
51 - 200
Website
https://solo.io

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Performance of Gloo Mesh Across Market Features

Gloo Mesh Likes & Dislikes

Like

Gloo Mesh Enterprise has introduced many critical observability and operational features for ambient service mesh that have improved the overall experience of administering a service mesh.

Like

- Service to service authentication using certificate issued from SPIRE - FIPS compliant/Distroless Istio builds - Multi-tenancy & multi-cluster mesh support - Excellent customer support

Dislike

The main challenges we've experienced have been due to the newness of ambient service mesh, however this doesn't apply to the sidecar mesh product.

Dislike

Solo needs to work on the documentations, some of user guides are outdated

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  • Engineer
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    Best Service Mesh Support in the Business

    5.0
    Jun 24, 2025
    The experience has overall been great with Solo.io, they've been receptive to suggestions and have been very helpful in understanding service mesh as we implement for our Org.
  • Sr.Software Engineer
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    Great service mesh choice for securing cloud-native applications!

    4.0
    Jun 2, 2023
    Gloo Mesh is of the best products when it comes to the FIPS compliance, and security of your cloud-native applications.
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