Solo.io vs Infracost
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Solo.io is a cloud-native infrastructure company building Gloo API gateway, Gloo Mesh (Istio enterprise), and Gloo AI Gateway; co-created Istio with Google; donated Gloo Gateway to CNCF and launched Agentgateway for agentic AI workloads in 2026.
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Solo.io is a cloud-native infrastructure software company that builds enterprise-grade API gateway, service mesh, and AI gateway products for platform engineering and DevOps teams. Founded in 2017 by Idit Levine and headquartered in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Solo.io is best known for its Gloo product family and its role as a co-creator (alongside Google) of the Istio open-source service mesh — which has become the de facto standard for microservices networking in Kubernetes environments. Solo.io provides enterprise support, hardened distributions, and advanced features on top of open-source Istio, enabling large organizations to run Istio in production at scale with enterprise SLAs.
SF cloud infrastructure cost management for engineers showing AWS/GCP costs in pull requests before deployment; YC W21 $17.2M at 3,500 companies including 10% of Fortune 500 competing with CloudHealth for FinOps.
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Infracost is a San Francisco-based cloud cost management platform — backed by Y Combinator (W21) with $17.2 million raised including a $15 million Series A led by Pruven Capital with Insight Partners in November 2025 — providing engineers with real-time infrastructure cost visibility during the development workflow, surfacing estimated cloud costs directly in pull requests before code is merged to production. Serving 3,500+ companies including 10% of the Fortune 500, Infracost integrates with Terraform and infrastructure-as-code workflows to calculate and display the monthly cost impact of infrastructure changes at the point in the workflow where engineers can still make cost-aware decisions.
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