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    ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price

    IBM Kubecost

    Score7.7 out of 10
    N/AIBM Kubecost is a self-hosted Kubernetes cost visibility and optimization platform that provides real-time insights to help teams reduce cloud spend and scale cost efficiently.

    $449

    per month 100 nodes

    Profound

    Score8.5 out of 10
    N/AProfound offers an analytics platform to help enterprise brands understand and improve how they show up in AI Search.

    $99

    per month

    Pricing
    IBM KubecostProfound
    Editions & Modules
    Business
    $449
    per month 100 nodes
    Enterprise
    Custom Quote
    Starter
    $99
    per month
    Growth
    $399
    per month
    Enterprise
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    IBM KubecostProfound
    Free Trial
    YesNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual billing.
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    Community Pulse
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    Apptio an IBM Company
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    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
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    86%
    Would buy again
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Delivers good value for the price
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    Happy with the feature set
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    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
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    Implementation went as expected
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    80%
    Implementation went as expected
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    Features
    IBM KubecostProfound
    SEO
    Comparison of SEO features of IBM Kubecost and Profound
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    Ratings
    Profound
    7.1
    5 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Keyword analysis00 Ratings6.34 Ratings
    Backlink management00 Ratings6.73 Ratings
    SERP ranking tracking00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    Page grader00 Ratings6.84 Ratings
    Competitive analysis00 Ratings8.85 Ratings
    Site audit / diagnostics00 Ratings5.33 Ratings
    Site recommendations00 Ratings7.25 Ratings
    Task management00 Ratings8.02 Ratings
    SEO Channels
    Comparison of SEO Channels features of IBM Kubecost and Profound
    Feature
    IBM Kubecost
    -
    Ratings
    Profound
    8.0
    3 Ratings
    5% above category average
    Local SEO00 Ratings7.02 Ratings
    Social SEO00 Ratings10.01 Ratings
    Global SEO00 Ratings7.03 Ratings
    SEO Platform & Account Management
    Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of IBM Kubecost and Profound
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    IBM Kubecost
    -
    Ratings
    Profound
    7.0
    4 Ratings
    18% below category average
    Multi-domain support00 Ratings8.33 Ratings
    Integration with web analytics tools00 Ratings5.84 Ratings
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    Serpstat
    Score10 out of 10
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    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
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    Google Trends
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM KubecostProfound
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.5
    (4 ratings)
    8.6
    (7 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    7.6
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    User Testimonials
    IBM KubecostProfound
    Likelihood to Recommend
    Apptio an IBM Company
    We have a Kubernetes cluster spread across multiple cloud providers, including AWS, Google, and Azure. Kubecost consolidates data from all the providers and gives us insights. So instead of jumping between individual dashboards, Kubecost shows everything in one place. It helps us in right-sizing the cluster, which directly saves us costs. Although it gives us cluster insights, we still need to take action manually. It also provides insight into the Kube cluster only, but actual costs depend on other components as well, including databases, storage, etc.
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    Profound
    Profound is a great AEO platform, with so much information and insights available around what competitors are doing and what prospects are searching for, and how we are cited. The down side is also just too much information and without enough resources or a full time person using the platform, it's difficult to know what to prioritize
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    Pros
    Apptio an IBM Company
    • Show namespace level cost and usage
    • Allow rightisizibg At namespace level
    • Show effectiveness of current resources allocation
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    Profound
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    Cons
    Apptio an IBM Company
    • I think there is room for improvement in IBM Kubecost if you Streamline IBM Kubecost more with AWS cost explorer
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    Profound
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    Usability
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Our engineers liked the devops dashboard and the initial deployment was very fast which meant the cost-allocation data was available right after deployment which the team further customized and enhanced based on our needs. Version 3.0 fixed a lot of concerns with the backend responsiveness, especially when running heavy multi-cluster api calls
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    Profound
    Profound tracks A LOT of data, which is great, but it can also be overwhelming to look at/digest all the raw data without their internal measurements.
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    Alternatives Considered
    Apptio an IBM Company
    Among competitors, IBM Kubecost offers deeper insights into cluster metrics. It offers the highest data privacy, as the data stays in your private infrastructure. Although it can't provide Non-K8s cost insights, it still offers some insights based on tags, which is better than any other product.
    Incentivized
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    Profound
    Semrush is much more mature for SEO but lacks the focus needed to be effective for AEO. Because Profound is build for AEO from the ground up, all of the associated features are optimized to be useful for AEO (for example focusing purely on topic visibility). SEMRush's AI Search tools feel a bit muddled in the system they have set up for SEO
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    Return on Investment
    Apptio an IBM Company
    • Given that we are going through a cloud transformation journey, IBM Kubecost has helped reduce the infra cost by up to 20% by detecting any wrong configuration early in the process
    • It also helped us determine the idle and orphaned resources that we could cleanup to save costs
    Incentivized
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    Profound
    No answers on this topic
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