AppFog (discontinued) vs. IBM Kubecost

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AppFog (discontinued)
Score 6.6 out of 10
N/A
AppFog was a cloud-agnostic application and infrastructure management platform used to manage workloads across on-premises and third-party cloud environments. It has been discontinued.
$0
IBM Kubecost
Score 8.1 out of 10
N/A
IBM 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
Pricing
AppFog (discontinued)IBM Kubecost
Editions & Modules
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Business
$449
per month 100 nodes
Enterprise
Custom Quote
Offerings
Pricing Offerings
AppFog (discontinued)IBM Kubecost
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
YesYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional Details
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Features
AppFog (discontinued)IBM Kubecost
Platform-as-a-Service
Comparison of Platform-as-a-Service features of Product A and Product B
AppFog (discontinued)
6.5
2 Ratings
18% below category average
IBM Kubecost
-
Ratings
Ease of building user interfaces7.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Scalability5.32 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform management overhead6.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Workflow engine capability6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Platform access control6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Services-enabled integration6.62 Ratings00 Ratings
Development environment creation7.42 Ratings00 Ratings
Development environment replication8.42 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue monitoring and notification6.01 Ratings00 Ratings
Issue recovery6.42 Ratings00 Ratings
Upgrades and platform fixes7.02 Ratings00 Ratings
Best Alternatives
AppFog (discontinued)IBM Kubecost
Small Businesses
AWS Lambda
AWS Lambda
Score 8.3 out of 10

No answers on this topic

Medium-sized Companies
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
IBM Turbonomic
IBM Turbonomic
Score 8.8 out of 10
Enterprises
Red Hat OpenShift
Red Hat OpenShift
Score 9.2 out of 10
vRealize Operations (discontinued)
vRealize Operations (discontinued)
Score 9.1 out of 10
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User Ratings
AppFog (discontinued)IBM Kubecost
Likelihood to Recommend
6.6
(2 ratings)
9.0
(2 ratings)
Usability
-
(0 ratings)
8.2
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
AppFog (discontinued)IBM Kubecost
Likelihood to Recommend
Discontinued Products
It was very good to use in small scale projects. Considering the high end projects with many instances and multi-platform architectures, it is better to test before the application is deployed. I think few of the questions can be general - who are the system users and what size is the application focussing on? How much resources are required? Will the application require any additional services?
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Apptio an IBM Company
Kubecost is very useful tool for organizations looking to manage their cost for their kubernetes environment. its a well suited tool for organizations looking to expand their kubernetes environment or start their kubernetes journey. Having a tool like this is very useful for not only the users but for leadership to manage cost and overall management of their environment
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Pros
Discontinued Products
  • Quick deployment of pre-built virtual machines
  • Some of the virtual machines also are readily available with a pack of softwares
  • Good Stability. Using it as a student, I have never experienced any downtime issues with the projects deployed on AppFog.
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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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Cons
Discontinued Products
  • Though it is good and easy for developers, it lacks operational activities and monitoring tools.
  • It is easy to deploy WAR on AppFog with its console but sometimes it can lack on the performance and feasibility.
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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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Usability
Discontinued Products
No answers on this topic
Apptio an IBM Company
While Kubecost is very critical tool, providing useful information about your organization's kubernets cost patterns, it could use additional features like better integration with other IBM tools. Having the ability to incorporate other IBM tools will be helpful for users and leadership as well as increase overall awareness of what other Products IBM provides.
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Alternatives Considered
Discontinued Products
Primarily because it used to have a good free tier earlier, which it does not anymore. It's simple, and things are available to use. Compared to it's competitors, it does has less features, but that kind of acts in its favor. That adds to the simplicity, and ease of use for a new user.
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Apptio an IBM Company
Namespace cost, usage and efficiency data and ability to optimize for k8 containers
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Return on Investment
Discontinued Products
  • Our project was deployed with good efficiency and easily accessible.
  • The platform was much recommeded across the groups and peers.
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Apptio an IBM Company
  • Cost savings
  • cost monitoring
  • budget control
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