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Understand and optimize your Kubernetes costs in real-time
Kubernetes waste quietly drives up cloud spend, often going unnoticed until the monthly cloud bill arrives. Even then, teams are left with an aggregate total and no clear view into which teams or workloads drove the spend, what changed, or where waste is hiding. IBM Kubecost helps teams continuously reduce the cost of operating Kubernetes with real-time visibility, allocation, optimization, and governance. Scale clusters confidently without cost surprises or performance trade-offs. Free to install — get started in under 5 minutes.Turn Kubernetes cost visibility into savings
Unify costs across every environment
Bring Kubernetes cost and usage data, from multi-cloud to on-prem, into one consistent, scalable view.
Follow the money through your clusters
See which teams, products, and workloads are driving spend across clusters and reconcile costs with your cloud bill.
Take action on savings opportunities
Surface usage insights to spot overprovisioned workloads and automate actions that deliver measurable savings.
Drive accountability across teams
Keep spend predictable without slowing teams down, with clear guardrails that maintain cost control as you scale.
The Leader's Guide to Kubernetes Cost Optimization
Most Kubernetes waste hides in plain sight — inside over-requested workloads and shared cluster resources. Platform and cloud leaders discover significant gaps between requested and actual resource usage only after cluster spend rises or reliability risk appears. Optimization is possible, but done blindly it can introduce performance and delivery risk.
Learn more about why Kubernetes cost inefficiency happens and how leading organizations improve visibility, accountability, and efficiency without slowing engineering teams.
Kubecost capabilities
Visibility
See real-time Kubernetes costs across clusters, teams, namespaces, workloads, and shared resources. Break down spend by any Kubernetes object and reconcile it with your cloud bill for defensible showback and chargeback.
Operability
Operate across Kubernetes anywhere, including multi-cloud and hybrid environments. Combine native cloud billing and custom pricing in a lightweight architecture that scales reliably as your Kubernetes environments grow.
Optimization
Drive savings with real usage data to surface over-provisioned workloads across clusters, containers, nodes, and storage. Turn recommendations into automated actions like automated request sizing or namespace turndown.
Governance
Prevent overspend and improve predictability with budgets, forecasting, and detect anomalies. Trigger alerts when spend drifts and provide role-based access and reporting that align engineering, FinOps, and finance.
Purpose-built for teams running Kubernetes
Kubecost, an IBM Company, began as an open-source project with a goal of giving small engineering teams access to great cost visibility. As a result, our solution is tightly integrated with the open-source cloud native ecosystem, such as Kubernetes, Prometheus, and Grafana.
Running containers on Kubernetes requires a new approach for visualizing and optimizing spend. Kubecost is designed from the ground up for Kubernetes and the Cloud Native ecosystem.
How to Build Cost Awareness into DevOps Workflows
FinOps has long been reactive—surfacing waste only after configurations are deployed and money is already spent. DevOps leaders are now shifting left, giving teams earlier cost visibility to reduce rework and improve efficiency. This guide shows how to embed cost management into workflows so projects stay accountable, optimized, and aligned to business value.More Kubecost Resources
Docs site
Technical documentation, deployment guides, and API references
Slack community
Connect with users and talk directly to our team
Monthly Kubechats
Live and on-demand webinars with product experts
K8s guides
Hands-on guides for operating and optimizing Kubernetes