AWS Cost Explorer vs. Kubecost

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AWS Cost Explorer
Score 10.0 out of 10
N/A
AWS Cost Explorer's interface is used to visualize, understand, and manage AWS costs and usage over time. Users can get custom reports that analyze cost and usage data, and analyze data at a high level (for example, total costs and usage across all accounts), or dive deeper into cost and usage data to identify trends, pinpoint cost drivers, and detect anomalies.N/A
Kubecost
Score 7.3 out of 10
N/A
Founded by ex-Google cloud engineers and PMs, Stackwatch headquartered in San Francisco, aims to enable teams to operate Kubernetes and cloud native infrastructure at scale. Their flagship product Kubecost is presented as tooling and intelligence to manage cost, performance, reliability and other infrastructure operability challenges.
$449
per month
Pricing
AWS Cost ExplorerKubecost
Editions & Modules
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Business
$449
per month 100 nodes
Enterprise
Custom Quote
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AWS Cost ExplorerKubecost
Free Trial
YesYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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AWS Cost ExplorerKubecost
Small Businesses

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Medium-sized Companies
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Score 8.7 out of 10
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Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 8.4 out of 10
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Score 8.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
AWS Cost ExplorerKubecost
Likelihood to Recommend
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7.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
AWS Cost ExplorerKubecost
Likelihood to Recommend
Amazon AWS
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Stackwatch, Inc (Kubecost)
Well suited for a k8 platform and the clients on the platform however doesn’t help as much for a total enterprise cloud cost that is not running on k8
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Pros
Amazon AWS
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Stackwatch, Inc (Kubecost)
  • Show namespace level cost and usage
  • Allow rightisizibg At namespace level
  • Show effectiveness of current resources allocation
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Cons
Amazon AWS
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Stackwatch, Inc (Kubecost)
  • Agents installation and the ping fed integration
  • The amount of CPU Kubecost agents use
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Alternatives Considered
Amazon AWS
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Stackwatch, Inc (Kubecost)
Namespace cost, usage and efficiency data and ability to optimize for k8 containers
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Return on Investment
Amazon AWS
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Stackwatch, Inc (Kubecost)
  • Allowed individual teams to better their cloud architecture for cost efficiency
  • Save on cloud investment
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