Istio Plans Pricing

Istio is a free, open-source service mesh project hosted by the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and licensed under Apache License 2.0. There is no paid Istio plan, no per-API-call charge, and no central billing entity. Cost is borne by the operator running Istio (compute, observability backends, support contracts from third-party distributions such as Solo.io Gloo Mesh, Tetrate Service Bridge, Red Hat OpenShift Service Mesh, or hyperscaler-managed Istio offerings).