IBM Cloud Managed Istio vs. NGINX Service Mesh
| Product | Rating | Most Used By | Product Summary | Starting Price |
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 IBM Cloud Managed Istio | Score8.7 out of 10 | N/A | The IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service provides the Managed Istio installation add on, designed to provide additonal control over clusters and the microservices they comprise via automatic updates and lifecycle management of control plane components, and integration with platform logging and monitoring tools. | N/A |
 NGINX Service Mesh | N/A | N/A | NGINX Service Mesh is a data plane that provides load balancing, reverse proxy, traffic routing, identity, and encryption features needed for production-grade service mesh deployments. | N/A |
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| Entry-level Setup Fee | No setup fee | Optional | ||||||||||||||
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| Likelihood to Recommend | 8.7 | - |
| Support Rating | 6.4 | - |