Dev tools · alternatives · 2026

24 alternatives to Cloud Waste Scanner

Local-first cloud cost optimization software

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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Cloudthread▲354
Cloud cost efficiency, engineering-first
2021 · its alternatives →
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Zero Waste Cloud▲21
Hey HN! I'm Mike, based in Stockholm/Sweden and I'm the founder of Zero Waste Cloud (https://zerowastecloud.io) - a tool that scans AWS and GCP infrastructure to find cost optimization opportunities while calculating the environmental impact. Almost all businesses can save 20-40% of their cloud costs using this tool (sources at bottom) TLDR: Sign up -> Connect your AWS/GCP -> Scan -> Save 20-40% of your cloud spend. My backstory: I've been a CISO and in IT management for a long time and always been frustrated by how much waste I'd find in every environment - idle EC2…
2025 · zerowastecloud.io · its alternatives →
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CloudPouch▲113
See, understand, and reduce AWS costs
2022 · cloudpouch.dev · its alternatives →
4
Crumble▲93
Cut your applications’ cloud costs by up to 70%
2022 · its alternatives →
5ST
See the impact on your cloud costs as you code▲179
Hey folks, my name is Owen and I recently started working at a startup (https://infracost.io/) that shows engineers how much their code changes are going to cost on the cloud before being deployed (in CI/CD like GitHub or GitLab). Previously, I was one of the founders of tfsec (it scanned code for security issues). One of the things I learnt was if we catch issues early, i.e. when the engineer was typing their code, we save a bunch of time. I was thinking … okay, why not build cloud costs into the code editor. Show the cloud cost impact of the code as the engineers are…
2024 · its alternatives →
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Cloudgov.ai▲107
Your Gen AI agent for multicloud cost management
2024 · cloudgov.ai · its alternatives →
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Komiser – Detect potential AWS cost savings▲166
Open-source cloud-environment inspector. Supporting AWS, GCP, Azure, and more! Your cloud resources will have nowhere to hide! - mlabouardy/komiser
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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CostStorage▲155
Super simple cloud storage pricing estimator
2017 · coststorage.com · its alternatives →
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CloudAvocado▲131
Cost optimization insights for Amazon Cloud
2022 · cloudavocado.com · its alternatives →
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Demand Cloud▲63
The simple enterprise solution for cloud cost optimization
2022 · its alternatives →
11TC
Tiny CLI to save AWS costs in dev environments when you're sleeping▲119
2020 · npmjs.com · its alternatives →
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Cloudchipr▲138
Cloud costs observability,management and automation platform
Jan 2026 · cloudchipr.com · its alternatives →
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Open Source workflows to cut cloud costs▲71
Organize, scale down, optimize and delete resources
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Digger.dev – A PaaS that generates Terraform, in your AWS account▲142
Digger is enterprise-ready, self-hostable infrastructure tooling. Terraform CI/CD, drift detection, PR automation, and state management. Open source DevOps for cloud-native teams.
2021 · diggerdev.com · its alternatives →
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See the carbon impact of your cloud as you code▲67
Hey folks, I’m Hassan, one of the co-founders of Infracost (https://www.infracost.io). Infracost helps engineers see and reduce the cloud cost of each infrastructure change before they merge their code. The way Infracost works is we gather pricing data from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. What we call a ‘Pricing Service’, which now holds around 9 million live price points (!!). Then we map these prices to infrastructure code. Once the mapping is done, it enables us to show the cost impact of a code change before it is merged, directly in GitHub, GitLab etc.…
Jan 2026 · dashboard.infracost.io · its alternatives →
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Infracost▲101
Open source cloud cost estimator in pull requests
2021 · infracost.io · its alternatives →
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DuckDisk▲104
Table-first storage analysis for Mac, cloud, and SSH
Aug 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Komiser▲88
Identify potential cost savings on public cloud
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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CleanCloud – Cloud cleanup that can't delete anything▲10
CleanCloud is a shift-left cloud hygiene scanner for AWS, Azure, and GCP. Catch orphaned resources, idle databases, unattached volumes, and idle AI/ML infrastructure in CI/CD — read-only, zero telemetry, no agents. 45 high-signal rules. Free and open source.
Jan 2026 · getcleancloud.com · its alternatives →
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AWS-doctor – A terminal-based AWS health check and cost optimizer in Go▲51
Powerful open-source CLI to audit security, costs, and best practices in AWS. 🩺 ☁️ - elC0mpa/aws-doctor
Jan 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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nable▲11
Cloud and AI cost management, where you code. Find the waste in Claude or Cursor, ship the fix as a pull request, all on your machine. AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock and 10+ more.
Jun 2026 · getnable.com · its alternatives →
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Uniskai by Profisea Labs▲64
AI-based cloud cost reduction platform
2023 · profisealabs.com · its alternatives →
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CloudWise▲2
Free AWS cost optimizer with AI and 149 waste detectors
Apr 2026 · cloudcostwise.io · its alternatives →
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CloudPouch – See. Understand. Reduce AWS Costs▲7
CloudPouch is a desktop AWS cost optimization (FinOps) tool. Analyze your AWS bill locally, get actionable savings recommendations, and keep your billing data on your own computer — no SaaS, no telemetry.
2022 · cloudpouch.dev · its alternatives →

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