OpenCost is an open-source, CNCF-hosted specification and tool for measuring and allocating Kubernetes and cloud costs, originating from Kubecost's core. It breaks spend down by Kubernetes concepts such as namespace, pod, and label and maps it to real cloud billing rates, giving teams a vendor-neutral way to see where money goes. It is fully free and self-hosted, aimed at platform teams that want transparent, community-governed cost monitoring. It focuses on allocation and measurement rather than automated optimization. It supports the major cloud providers and on-premises clusters.
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Overview
- Founded
- 2022
- Pricing tier
- Low
- Startup-friendly
- Yes
- Enterprise-ready
- No
Cloud cost management
- Free tier
- Yes: Fully open-source and free; self-hosted.
- Multi-cloud
- Yes
- Kubernetes cost
- Yes
- Anomaly detection
- No
- Optimization recommendations
- No
- Open-source
- Yes