Feature comparison
Review the features that Gloo Gateway provides to you on top of what is offered by the open source Istio project.
For a comparison of the features you get with a Gloo Gateway license versus the open source, basic version of an Istio ingress gateway, see the following table.| Feature | Gloo Gateway | Istio ingress | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cross-origin resource sharing (CORS) | ✅ | ✅ | |
| TLS termination | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Header manipulation | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Retries, redirects, timeouts, fault injection, and outlier detection | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Mirroring | ✅ | ✅ | |
| Request and response transformations | ✅ | ❌ | |
| Federation | ✅ | ❌ | |
| Advanced rate limiting | ✅ | ❌ | |
| Advanced security including WAF and DLP | ✅ | ❌ | |
| Advanced external authentication for OIDC, OPA, API keys, and LDAP | ✅ | ❌ | |
| Advanced traffic routing and shaping, such as direct responses and route delegation | ✅ | ❌ | |
| Advanced locality-based and multicluster routing | ✅ | ❌ |