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Azure Cost Management vs. Kubecost

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
Azure Cost Management
Score 7.8 out of 10
N/A
Microsoft's Azure Cost Management tracks resource usage and manages costs across all your clouds with a single, unified view, and access rich operational and financial insights to make informed decisions.N/A
Kubecost
Score 7.3 out of 10
N/A
Founded by ex-Google cloud engineers and PMs, Stackwatch headquartered in San Francisco, aims to enable teams to operate Kubernetes and cloud native infrastructure at scale. Their flagship product Kubecost is presented as tooling and intelligence to manage cost, performance, reliability and other infrastructure operability challenges.
$449
per month
Pricing
Azure Cost ManagementKubecost
Editions & Modules
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Business
$449
per month 100 nodes
Enterprise
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Offerings
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Azure Cost ManagementKubecost
Free Trial
NoYes
Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
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Community Pulse
Azure Cost ManagementKubecost
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Best Alternatives
Azure Cost ManagementKubecost
Small Businesses

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Medium-sized Companies
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Score 8.7 out of 10
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Score 8.7 out of 10
Enterprises
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Score 8.4 out of 10
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Score 8.4 out of 10
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User Ratings
Azure Cost ManagementKubecost
Likelihood to Recommend
8.8
(5 ratings)
7.0
(1 ratings)
User Testimonials
Azure Cost ManagementKubecost
Likelihood to Recommend
Microsoft
A highly capable Azure Cloud platform and the best Cloud resource and cost management and data analytical capability are excellent. Azure Cost Management provides amazing capacity and performance analytics effectively and quite an easy tool Cloud efficiency optimization and its interface are very easy and friendly for the new users to get familiar with the tool easily.
Sylvia Beranice | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sylvia Beranice
Automation Engineer
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Stackwatch, Inc (Kubecost)
Well suited for a k8 platform and the clients on the platform however doesn’t help as much for a total enterprise cloud cost that is not running on k8
Verified User
Anonymous
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Pros
Microsoft
  • Accurate Cost Estimate
  • Detailed Uses Reports and Graphs
  • Quick Alert Notification
Sneha Sharma | TrustRadius Reviewer
Sneha Sharma
Assistant System Engineer
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Stackwatch, Inc (Kubecost)
  • Show namespace level cost and usage
  • Allow rightisizibg At namespace level
  • Show effectiveness of current resources allocation
Verified User
Anonymous
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Cons
Microsoft
  • It's not easy to track multiple Clouds' costs and resources to new users.
  • Advanced cost management settings require professional expertise.
  • May be complex to deploy Azure Cost Management via Cloud to new inexperienced users.
Lily Adams | TrustRadius Reviewer
Lily Adams
Software Engineer
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Stackwatch, Inc (Kubecost)
  • Agents installation and the ping fed integration
  • The amount of CPU Kubecost agents use
Verified User
Anonymous
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Alternatives Considered
Microsoft
I've only used this one.
Marco Urrea | TrustRadius Reviewer
Marco Urrea
DevOps Engineer
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Stackwatch, Inc (Kubecost)
Namespace cost, usage and efficiency data and ability to optimize for k8 containers
Verified User
Anonymous
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Return on Investment
Microsoft
  • The financial reporting.
  • Financial easy data analytics.
  • The migration of data is effective.
Cedeno Amanda | TrustRadius Reviewer
Cedeno Amanda
.NET Software Engineer
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Stackwatch, Inc (Kubecost)
  • Allowed individual teams to better their cloud architecture for cost efficiency
  • Save on cloud investment
Verified User
Anonymous
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