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Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd
Plans and Pricing

Choose the plan that's right for you

Basic

For teams adopting modern platform security, reliability, and observability via the service mesh.

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  • Stable release artifacts
  • Automated installs and upgrades
  • SLAs on CVE remediation
  • Mutual TLS and basic service mesh featureset

Premium

For companies standardizing on security, high availability, and multi-cluster communication.

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Everything in Basic, plus:

  • Multi-cluster communication
  • L7 network security policies
  • Automatic cross-cluster failover
  • Support for Linux VM workloads

Strategic

For enterprises with special security, compliance, and additional operational requirements.

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Everything in Premium, plus:

  • Hotpatch releases and SBOMs
  • High Availability Zone-aware
 Load Balancing (HAZL)
  • FIPS 140-3 and 140-2 validated cryptography (optional)
  • Enterprise support with 24x7 SLAs

Try it for free

Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd is always free to try for non-production use. No plan required.
Companies with fewer than 50 employees can also run BEL for production use, at any scale.
What is production use?

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Open source

Basic

Premium

Strategic

Stability and Risk Reduction

Zero-downtime deploys and upgrades
CVE remediation SLAs

Automation

Security

Zero-config encryption and authentication of all meshed traffic
Cryptographic workload identities, not IP addresses
Secure-by-default Rust data plane
Zero-trust granular authorization policies

Reliability

Latency-based load balancing
Timeouts and retries
Circuit breaking
gRPC load balancing
Blue-green / canary deploys

Traffic Routing

L7-aware request routing
Transparent multi-cluster communication
VM application support
Federated services

Observability

Uniform L7 metrics including success rates and latency distributions
Easy export to any Prometheus-compatible metrics store
Distributed tracing (OpenTelemetry)
Egress metrics
On cluster, “single pane of glass” dashboard

Standards

Gateway API support
Mutual TLS (mTLS) with TLS 1.3
IPv6

Compliance

Software Bills-of-Materials (SBOMs) for all components
Hotpatch releases
FIPS 140-2 and 140-3 validated cryptographic modules

Management with Buoyant Cloud (SaaS)

Single pane of glass multi-cluster dashboard
Continuous health checking
Alerts and metrics integration with Datadog, Teams, PagerDuty, and more

Cost reduction

Support and integration

Private support ticketing
24x7 on call SLAs
30-day "white glove" onboarding
Architecture review and best practice guidance

Legend:

Included

Available as add-on

Not available

Frequently asked questions

What is BEL?

Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd is the enterprise version of Linkerd. It’s designed for sustained use in production environments and is the version of Linkerd we run ourselves. Read more about the differences between BEL and open source Linkerd.

Do I have to pay to try BEL?

No. BEL is free to download, and free to try for non-production use. Download BEL and get started testing it today!

What constitutes "production use”?

Production use includes handling any traffic from your customers, or handling any traffic that is directly tied to revenue or otherwise critical to the business.

Who can run BEL in production for free?

Companies with fewer than 50 employees can run BEL for free, including production use. Companies with 50 or more employees will need to purchase a license.