Gremlin vs KubeInvaders
Gremlin
gremlin.comKubeInvaders
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| Figure | Gremlin | KubeInvaders |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $3,750/mo | — |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | — |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 8 | 0 |
| Spec score · Chaos Engineering Platforms | 9.0 (#1) | 7.3 (#17) |
| Integrations | Documented integrations include AWS, Azure, GCP, Jira and configurable REST webhooks. | The project describes monitoring an HTTP URL exposed by an Ingress during a chaos session. |
| License | Gremlin's commercial reliability platform is not offered as an open-source product; a G2 reviewer specifically notes that no open-source version is available. | The repository lists the project under the Apache 2.0 license. |
| Purpose | Gremlin helps engineering teams find failure modes, fix them, and validate reliability before failures become outages. | KubeInvaders is a gamified chaos engineering and educational tool for Kubernetes that stresses a cluster so users can observe its resilience. |
| Security | Gremlin states it is SOC 2 Type II certified and encrypts data in transit with TLS and at rest with AES-256. | The README says a missing, invalid, or expired token prevents KubeInvaders from calling the Kubernetes API, and warns that DISABLE_TLS=true skips API server certificate verification. |
| Self-hosting | Private Edition provides an isolated self-hosted deployment for organizations that cannot use the SaaS service. | Users can run KubeInvaders against their own Kubernetes cluster by configuring a service account and cluster access. |
Plans
Gremlin
- Gremlin 30-day trialFree
- Gremlin Platform trialFree
- Gremlin Reliability Management Platform on AWS Marketplace$45,000 a year
- Fault injection suitePriced on request
- Fault injection suite (stand-alone)Priced on request
- Gremlin Foresight AIPriced on request
- Gremlin PlatformPriced on request
- Professional ServicesPriced on request
In their own words
Gremlin
Gremlin is a chaos engineering platform for engineering teams seeking failure modes and ways to validate reliability before failures become outages. It injects faults into services, hosts, containers, and serverless workloads so teams can examine system responses. Blast radius controls limit experiments, which can halt and roll back automatically if issues arise. Teams can sequence experiments into incident scenarios, schedule them, and use GameDay Manager to prepare, run, analyze, and store results. The platform also includes dependency discovery, standardized test suites and reliability scores, disaster recovery testing, detected risks, and organization-wide benchmarking. Documented integrations include Slack, Datadog, Dynatrace, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Grafana Cloud k6, Jira, and custom webhooks. Supported environments include public clouds, Linux, Windows, Kubernetes, and on-premises deployments through self-hosted Private Edition. Gremlin states that it is SOC 2 Type II certified and encrypts data in transit with TLS and at rest with AES-256. A 30-day trial is available without a credit card and does not auto-convert. Platform pricing is by custom quote per service; agents, targets, and test volume are sized during the pricing conversation.
KubeInvaders
KubeInvaders has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.