AWS App Mesh pricing
2 plans read from aws.amazon.com
AWS App MeshFree There is no additional charge for using AWS App Mesh; you pay for the AWS resources consumed by the proxy.Proxy resource costs billed separately Read 4 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
AWS App Mesh usageFree No additional App Mesh charge; AWS bills the EC2 instances or requested Fargate CPU and memory consumed by the proxyProxy resource costs · Related ECS/Fargate/EC2/EKS charges Read 15 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com
In short
- AWS App Mesh has a free plan (AWS App Mesh).
What the alternatives costAll alternatives →
| Tool | From | Free plan | Free trial |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kuma | — | Yes | No |
| Network Service Mesh | — | Yes | No |
| Buoyant Enterprise for Linkerd | — | Yes | Yes |
| Flomesh Service Mesh | — | Yes | No |
| Traefik Mesh | — | Yes | No |
| Greymatter | — | No | Yes |
| Istio | — | Yes | No |
| Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Container Registry | — | Yes | No |