Kubecost, an IBM company, is a Kubernetes cost monitoring and optimization tool that allocates spend by cluster, namespace, and workload. Founded in 2019 and acquired by IBM, it targets teams running Kubernetes who need granular cost visibility. It works across multiple clouds and includes anomaly detection and optimization recommendations. A free edition offers cost allocation and monitoring with limited retention, with paid plans above it placing it in the mid tier. Kubecost itself is commercial and closed-source; the related OpenCost project is the separately maintained open-source effort.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2019
- Pricing tier
- Mid
- Startup-friendly
- Yes
- Enterprise-ready
- Yes
Cloud cost management
- Free tier
- Yes: Free edition: cost allocation + monitoring (limited retention)
- Multi-cloud
- Yes
- Kubernetes cost
- Yes
- Anomaly detection
- Yes
- Optimization recommendations
- Yes
- Open-source
- No