Choose the plan that's right for you
For teams adopting modern platform security, reliability, and observability via the service mesh.
For companies standardizing on security, high availability, and multi-cluster communication.
Everything in Standard, plus:
For enterprises with special security, compliance, and additional operational requirements.
Everything in Premium, plus:
We've got you covered. Please contact us for volume pricing.
We use the monthly median number of pods to account for fluctuations in pod counts. If you have a unique architecture for which that approach isn't sufficient, please contact us and we'll find a way to make it work.
We're happy to accommodate non-profits and others in unique situations.
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We want to make billing as predictable as possible. If you go over your licensed pod count for a month, we’ll let you know, and you’ll be charged for the difference in a subsequent month.
No. Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd is free to use for non-production and trial use. Test away!
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.
You can easily upgrade from open source Linkerd 2.14 to BEL using your existing workflows. See the docs for more.
Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd is our production-ready distribution of Linkerd. BEL is how we run Linkerd ourselves in our production-critical systems, and we're confident that it is the most stable, reliable, and powerful way to run and operate Linkerd for your mission-critical applications. Read more about the differences between BEL and open source Linkerd.
Stable releases have semantic version guarantees for upgrades, meaning changes in the minor version will never introduce breaking changes and will minimize the delta from the previous version. Each BEL release is delivered as a stable release package, including binaries and Helm charts, and has undergone rigorous testing in many environments before publication.
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