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    Overview
    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

    vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AvRealize Suite and vCloud Suite delivered a self-service consumption layer, an automation framework and self-driving Day 2 operations for VMware Cloud. The product is no longer available.

    $10

    per month per core

    Pricing
    IBM KubecostProfoundvRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
    Editions & Modules
    Business
    $449
    per month 100 nodes
    Enterprise
    Custom Quote
    Starter
    $99
    per month
    Growth
    $399
    per month
    Enterprise
    Custom
    FCO Hosting Edition
    $10
    per month per core
    FCO Hosting Edition
    $10
    per Cluster & Hypervisor Combination/Annual
    FCO Single Cluster Edition
    $16
    per month per core
    FCO Hosting Edition
    $128
    per month Max Core Limit
    FCO Single Cluster Edition
    $1500
    per Cluster & Hypervisor Combination/Annual
    FCO Single Cluster Edition
    Unlimited
    per month Max Core Limit
    FCO Multiple Cluster Edition
    Unlimited
    per month Max Core Limit
    FCO Multiple Cluster Edition
    Contact Sales
    per month per core
    FCO Multiple Cluster Edition
    Contact Sales
    per Cluster & Hypervisor Combination/Annual
    Offerings
    Pricing Offerings
    IBM KubecostProfoundvRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
    Free Trial
    YesNoNo
    Free/Freemium Version
    YesNoNo
    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
    NoNoNo
    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup feeNo setup fee
    Additional DetailsDiscount available for annual billing.
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    Community Pulse
    IBM KubecostProfoundvRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
    Considered Multiple Products
    Apptio an IBM Company
    No answer on this topic
    Profound
    No answer on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    No answer on this topic
    Key User Insights
    Would buy again
    No answers on this topic
    86%
    Would buy again
    6 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Delivers good value for the price
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Delivers good value for the price
    6 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Happy with the feature set
    No answers on this topic
    100%
    Happy with the feature set
    7 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Lived up to sales and marketing promises
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    No answers on this topic
    Implementation went as expected
    No answers on this topic
    80%
    Implementation went as expected
    4 Answers
    No answers on this topic
    Features
    IBM KubecostProfoundvRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
    SEO
    Comparison of SEO features of IBM Kubecost and Profound and vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
    Feature
    IBM Kubecost
    -
    Ratings
    Profound
    7.1
    5 Ratings
    8% below category average
    vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Keyword analysis00 Ratings6.34 Ratings00 Ratings
    Backlink management00 Ratings6.73 Ratings00 Ratings
    SERP ranking tracking00 Ratings8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Page grader00 Ratings6.84 Ratings00 Ratings
    Competitive analysis00 Ratings8.85 Ratings00 Ratings
    Site audit / diagnostics00 Ratings5.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Site recommendations00 Ratings7.25 Ratings00 Ratings
    Task management00 Ratings8.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO Channels
    Comparison of SEO Channels features of IBM Kubecost and Profound and vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
    Feature
    IBM Kubecost
    -
    Ratings
    Profound
    8.0
    3 Ratings
    5% above category average
    vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Local SEO00 Ratings7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
    Social SEO00 Ratings10.01 Ratings00 Ratings
    Global SEO00 Ratings7.03 Ratings00 Ratings
    SEO Platform & Account Management
    Comparison of SEO Platform & Account Management features of IBM Kubecost and Profound and vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
    Feature
    IBM Kubecost
    -
    Ratings
    Profound
    7.0
    4 Ratings
    18% below category average
    vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
    -
    Ratings
    Multi-domain support00 Ratings8.33 Ratings00 Ratings
    Integration with web analytics tools00 Ratings5.84 Ratings00 Ratings
    Cloud Management
    Comparison of Cloud Management features of IBM Kubecost and Profound and vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
    Feature
    IBM Kubecost
    -
    Ratings
    Profound
    -
    Ratings
    vRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
    8.1
    1 Ratings
    8% below category average
    Cloud Management Security00 Ratings00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Automation and Orchestration00 Ratings00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Cost Management00 Ratings00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Cloud Management Performance Monitoring00 Ratings00 Ratings7.31 Ratings
    Governance and Compliance00 Ratings00 Ratings9.11 Ratings
    Resource Management00 Ratings00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
    Systems Integration00 Ratings00 Ratings8.21 Ratings
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    Score6.3 out of 10
    Medium-sized Companies
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    Yoast
    Score8.5 out of 10
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    Score8.5 out of 10
    Enterprises
    No answers on this topic
    Google Trends
    Score8.6 out of 10
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    Score8.5 out of 10
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    User Ratings
    IBM KubecostProfoundvRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.5
    (4 ratings)
    8.6
    (7 ratings)
    7.3
    (1 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    7.6
    (7 ratings)
    -
    (0 ratings)
    User Testimonials
    IBM KubecostProfoundvRealize Suite & vCloud Suite (discontinued)
    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.
    Incentivized
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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
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    It is most suited where there multi cloud platform as VCloud suite provides most 2 important licences i.e. Vsphere 9India's leading hypervisor) and Vrealize Suite which helps to automate and also simplies IT management by making the solution most agile, efficient and easy to use. If there is a simple environment with just few servers where there is need for only 2-3 VMs, i will not recommend this.
    Incentivized
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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
    Incentivized
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    Profound
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    • One management platform for all the VMs across datacenters
    • Automation of IT management
    • Makes IT or Cloud management more agile and efficient.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    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
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Profound
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    • There is nothing exactly like cons but one must should check all the features, it can be confusing at the times.
    • It can be expensive as compared to some other products available in the market.
    • Implementation can be little tricky, should done by Vmware engineer
    Incentivized
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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
    Incentivized
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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.
    Incentivized
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    Discontinued Products
    No answers on this topic
    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
    Read full review
    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
    Incentivized
    Read full review
    Discontinued Products
    VCloud mostly provides cloud management platform, all others also provide the same plus some other features so, Vcloud can be little less expensive in comparison to other solutions available in market. Also, it's very easy to use and deploy and manage your cloud platform. It is widely used by mid scale as well as large scale companies.
    Incentivized
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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
    Read full review
    Profound
    No answers on this topic
    Discontinued Products
    • Positive only- Vrealize suite helps is IT automation by making it cost-effective and efficient.
    • Less time is consumed by our IT administrators because of Automating process and they can do better monitoring
    • It can be really cost effective for if any company wants to make private cloud. It did the same with us as through vCloud we get all the VMware software required.
    Incentivized
    Read full review
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