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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.

  • 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.

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.

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

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

Premium

Strategic

Stability and Risk Reduction

Zero-downtime deploys and upgrades
Stable releases with semantic versioning
CVE remediation SLAs
Full test matrix for every release
Lifecycle automation operator

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
Security policy generation from live traffic

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
Federated services
VM application support
VM application management and automation

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

High Availability Zone-aware Load balancing (HAZL)

Support and integration

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

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