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Envoy pricing
No tier breakdown is published on the record we hold for Envoy. Below is what is on record, and how it compares with the technology tools listed alongside it.
As of 30 August 2026, Envoy pricing is free. Figures are the vendor's list prices as recorded on this page's last check; the vendor's site is the final word.
- Entry price
- Free
- Model
- Open-source
- Tiers
- -
- Free tier
- Yes
What is on record
The Envoy catalogue entry carries no price and a open-source pricing model, but no tier breakdown. The category comparison below is still useful, and the Envoy review carries the full feature record.
What the product covers
The full Envoy feature record, grouped as the catalogue groups it. This is the product as a whole; the record does not map every feature onto a specific tier.
Other
- xDS dynamic configuration
- Protocol breadth
- Filter chain architecture
- Observability by default
- Outlier detection
- Traffic shaping
- mTLS termination and origination
- Hot restart
People bring Envoy in for acting as the data plane under a service mesh or gateway api implementation, which is how the overwhelming majority of deployments use it, an edge or api gateway that needs per-route retry budgets, circuit breaking and outlier detection rather than round-robin proxying, migrating traffic between service versions or between a monolith and its replacement, using weighted splits and shadow traffic, standardising observability across a polyglot estate, so that latency, error rates and tracing look the same regardless of the language a service is written in. If that is not the job you are buying for, the alternatives to Envoy are worth a look before you commit to a tier.
How that compares in Technology
Too few technology tools in this directory publish a starting price to quote a meaningful median, so the table below is a like-for-like list rather than a ranking.
| Tool | Entry price | Model | Rated | Head to head |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Envoy (this page) | Free | open-source | - | |
| Personetics | On request | quote | - | vs Envoy |
| Zeta | On request | quote | - | vs Envoy |
| Finxact | On request | quote | - | vs Envoy |
| Thought Machine | On request | quote | - | vs Envoy |
| Alkami | On request | quote | - | vs Envoy |
| Datadog | $15/month | - | - | vs Envoy |
Ratings are aggregated from third-party sources and imported with each catalogue entry, they are not reviews hosted on Softwr. How each figure is used is set out on the Envoy badges page.
Before you pay for Envoy
Three things this page cannot tell you, and all three change the bill. The record carries a price and a billing period but not the unit - per-seat and flat-rate pricing are indistinguishable in this data, so a five-person team may be looking at five times the figure above. It carries no annual rate, so any discount for paying yearly is not something this page can quote. And it carries no trial length.
What it can tell you is the shape of the ladder: not published on the record we hold. Because there is a free tier, the cheapest way to answer the rest is to use it before paying anything.
Envoy runs on not recorded. The full record is on the Envoy review, and the rest of the category is under best technology tools.
Envoy pricing questions
- How much does Envoy cost?
- No price is published on the record we hold for Envoy, which is listed as open-source. The vendor's own site is the only reliable source for the current figure.
- Does Envoy have a free plan?
- Yes, Envoy is recorded as open-source, so it can be used without paying.
- Which technology tools can I use without paying?
- 1 of the 8 technology tools listed alongside Envoy have a free tier: Canny.
- What am I actually paying for with Envoy?
- The record lists 8 features across 1 area: other. In practice it is brought in for acting as the data plane under a service mesh or gateway api implementation, which is how the overwhelming majority of deployments use it, an edge or api gateway that needs per-route retry budgets, circuit breaking and outlier detection rather than round-robin proxying, migrating traffic between service versions or between a monolith and its replacement, using weighted splits and shadow traffic.
- Does Envoy charge per user?
- The record carries a price and a billing period, but not the unit that price is charged in. Per-seat and flat-rate billing look identical in this data, so check the vendor's page before budgeting for a team.
- Are these Envoy prices current?
- They are what the catalogue entry holds, refreshed when the entry is. Vendors change pricing without notice and nobody at Softwr re-verifies each tier by hand, so treat this as a structured summary and the vendor's own pricing page as the authority.
- What should I compare Envoy against before paying?
- The closest technology tools in this directory are Personetics, Zeta, Finxact, Thought Machine. Each has a side-by-side comparison with Envoy covering price, platforms and features.