3 categories · Named, not rankedIstio
Istio is a service mesh for microservices, typically run on Kubernetes · istio.io ↗
Named, too few times to rank.
A product needs 10 labels in a category before a share is stated. Istio has 8.
Why models recommend it
“Consider Istio (or Cilium's mesh)”GLM 4.7 FlashX · Budget-constrained question · alternative
“or Envoy/ Istio for Kubernetes”Grok 4.20 · Negative question · alternative
What gives them pause
“deploying a full service mesh control plane just to handle North-South traffic adds immense operational complexity”Gemini 3.5 Flash · Negative question · warning
“not a full API gateway but pairs well (e.g., with Kong)”Grok 4.20 · Paraphrase question · warning
Also on the shortlist
The products named in the same answers as Istio, over the 21 answers that named it, and how often each was the first choice instead.
| Product | Named together | Picked instead | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 8 | 1 | View → | |
| 8 | 0 | View → | |
| 7 | 0 | View → | |
| 6 | 3 | View → | |
| 6 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 3 | View → | |
| 5 | 3 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → | |
| 5 | 0 | View → |
A side-by-side page exists where both products are among a category's top eight.
At a glance
Stated on Istio's own site, not checked by Gane.
- For
- enterprise applications; microservices; Kubernetes; service and reliability engineering
- Free plan or trial
- Try Istio
- Integrations
- 10
- Customers named
- 1-800-Flowers.com, Achievers, Aihuishou, Amadeus, Autodesk, Avito, BlaBlaCar, Chiper
How this is measured
Fourteen AI models from 12 labs are asked the same buying questions six ways, for three company sizes. Standings refresh every edition.
Gane sells AI visibility software. No company can pay to change a result.
Read the method →Sources returned with these answers
Fourteen of the fourteen models returned a source list in this edition: five return the pages they cited and nine the search results they consulted. These counts come from 15 of the 21 answers that named Istio and are not a share of its labels.
Domains cited
Sixty of the sixty-seven domain citations in answers naming Istio came from a third party's page. Seven were to the publisher's own pages (the Gane Index), which the models cite like any other source; they are not counted as a third party.
Pages cited
Pages are listed as the models cited them.
By model
| Model | First choice | Alternative | Mention | Warning | Labels |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Claude Haiku 4.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-5.4 mini | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Gemini 3.5 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Perplexity Sonar | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Grok 4.20 | 0 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 |
| Mistral Small | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| DeepSeek V4 Flash | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Llama 4 Maverick | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Qwen 3.7 Flash | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Kimi K2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| GLM 4.7 FlashX | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| MiniMax M2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| GPT-6 Luna | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Muse Glimmer 30B | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
What it publishes
| Kind | Pages | Last 90 days | 2025-10 to 2026-09 | Latest | Categories named |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| News or press | 2,167 | 13 | 2026-09-21 | ||
| Blog | 841 | 4 | 2026-09-16 | ||
| Case study | 84 | undated | |||
| Glossary or explainer | 16 | undated | |||
| Comparison | 8 | 0 | 2024-10-21 | ||
| Conference or event | 6 | 0 | 2021-07-06 |
Most recent
- 2026-09-21Announcing 1.29.8 news or press
- 2026-09-21Announcing 1.30.5 news or press
- 2026-09-21Announcing 1.31.1 news or press
- 2026-09-16Retirement of k8s integration jobs blog
- 2026-09-09Announcing 1.29 eol news or press
- 2026-08-31Change notes news or press
How it is countedHide how it is counted
Every page istio.io exposes, subdomains included. Kind is read from the address and title. The last 90 days, the latest date and the twelve months count pages by when they were published, from the site's feeds, a date in the address, or the page's own publication date, read from up to a hundred of its most recently changed pages; a page that says only when it last changed is counted in its kind but not in when, so the recent counts are a floor, and a kind none of whose pages gives a publication date reads undated. An event counts as online when its address or title says so (webinar, on demand, virtual or online summit); a conference, summit, trade show, expo or roadshow that does not say so is counted as a conference or event, which on a vendor's site is mostly in person. Read September 29, 2026.