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    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

    ReputationStacker

    Score10 out of 10
    N/AReputationStacker is a Reputation Management platform designed to automate the acquisition of customer reviews and monitor brand sentiment across multiple locations. The solution provides tools for Review Generation, Customer Feedback Collection, and Multi-Location Management. Key Capabilities Automated Review Campaigns: The system triggers automated SMS (Short Message Service) and Email review invitations based on customer transactions. The vendor…

    $79

    per month

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    IBM KubecostReputationStacker
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    Business
    $449
    per month 100 nodes
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    $79
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    Standard
    $99
    per month per location
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    $124
    per month per location
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    IBM KubecostReputationStacker
    Free Trial
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    Free/Freemium Version
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    Premium Consulting/Integration Services
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    Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeRequired
    Additional Details—Discount available for annual billing.
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    User Ratings
    IBM KubecostReputationStacker
    Likelihood to Recommend
    7.5
    (4 ratings)
    10.0
    (9 ratings)
    Usability
    7.3
    (3 ratings)
    10.0
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    User Testimonials
    IBM KubecostReputationStacker
    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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    ReputationStacker
    ReputationStacker is extremely well designed for multi-location practices that care about improving and protecting their online reputation and visibility in local search engine results (which is extremely important for our business). It makes it easy to consistently generate reviews for each location and address issues that patients have before they become bigger problems. If you’re looking for an all-in-one marketing platform, this isn’t that. It's just focused on online reputation and reviews and it does that really well (instead of trying to do everything).
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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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    ReputationStacker
    • Online reputation management for multiple locations of our business
    • Review generation for all of our clinics (with a focus on Google reviews)
    • Responding to reviews at scale
    • Review and reputation reporting
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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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    ReputationStacker
    • Adding additional locations of our business wasn't obvious at first, but when I figured out how to do it it was easy after that.
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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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    ReputationStacker
    We had our marketing person set it up, and now it automatically gets us Google reviews. It couldn't be easier.
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    Support Rating
    Apptio an IBM Company
    No answers on this topic
    ReputationStacker
    I had a question about how to add new locations and the support team got back to me immediately and showed me how to do it.
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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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    ReputationStacker
    Swell was too expensive. ReputationStacker does the same things (and more), costs less, and as far as I can tell from the Swell demo we did, a lot easier to use.
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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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    ReputationStacker
    • We have an average of over 30% more clicks on our Google Business Profiles since we started using ReputationStacker (because we now show a lot higher in Google's local search pack).
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    ReputationStacker Screenshots

    Screenshot of ReputationStacker's review management interface, which helps businesses of all sizes get more reviews, respond to them, share them on social media & their own websites, and manage their entire online reputation from a single dashboard.Screenshot of ReputationStacker's review monitoring dashboard. It monitors reviews from over 100 review sites, from Google to industry-specific review sites (like Avvo for lawyers and Healthgrades for doctors).

The user can respond to reviews directly from the ReputationStacker dashboard, and assign reviews to teammates for follow-up, share reviews as posts on social media pages, and share reviews on a company's website via the Review Feed widget.Screenshot of ReputationStacker's reports. These help to turn the qualitative feedback from online reviews and customer feedback into quantified data.

ReputationStacker works for single-location SMBs, but for multi-location online reputation management, the system is not only designed for automatic review generation, but also to run apples-to-apples comparisons of a business's locations to discover what customers really care about, including what's being done right, to where improvements can be made.Screenshot of ReputationStacker’s automated review generation, which requires no manual follow-up. Users can choose their ideal moment to request a review. Review request templates in ReputationStacker are also customizable to (for example) sound more casual or more formal. ReputationStacker's review request forms are on-brand and customizable so you can collect more customer feedback on the frontend, or streamline things and send customers directly to the review sites that are most important (Google, of course, but also niche and industry specific review sites).Screenshot of an example of ReputationStacker's AI review responses. Their prompting allows users to dial-in the brand voice so responses sound like they're coming from a person, and not an automated responder. The system can also be trained for improvement, and thresholds can be set so responses are only sent under certain conditions (e.g. five-star reviews only).Screenshot of ReputationStacker's review widgets can showcase reviews on a company website. The widget can be customized with a few clicks. Copy the embed code and paste it on a website wherever the review should appear. Multiple review widgets can be added.