AI · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to We've built FREE cloud cost monitoring module for K8s
If you’re in DevOps, SRE or software engineering in general you’ll love this. You can now both monitor your Kubernetes costs and get cost reduction insights completely FREE with CAST AI. We’ve just officially opened cost monitoring feature up to the public at CAST AI and it’s got no limits to the number of clusters you can connect or historical data you can access. Check it out here: https://cast.ai/cloud-cost-monitoring/ CAST AI’s cost monitoring features: - Free analysis for all your clusters, with no limits on their number or sizes. - Near-instant results as…
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. We've built FREE cloud cost monitoring module for K8s launched in 2022; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Wanted to share some exciting news - CAST AI (AI-driven cloud cost monitoring and management platform) has launched a free Cloud security insights tool for K8s. Security Insights offers the following features: Kubernetes configuration checks, to ensure your cluster is configured according to best practices for pods and workloads. Users are provided with details on individual checks and resources through CAST AI’s user interface. Vulnerability scans, which offer an overview of potential issues that might appear due to container images downloaded from public registries. Round-the-clock…
2022 · cast.ai · its alternatives →
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CAST AI (https://cast.ai) has built a cloud optimization platform that reduces AWS cloud costs 50% to 90%, optimizes DevOps, and automates disaster recovery via multi-cloud with a single cluster. Intelligent optimization engine delivers a cost-efficient, high-performing, and resilient infrastructure for every Kubernetes workload. If it sounds too good to be true - try free. To make it easier CAST AI provides AWS and GCP cloud credentials for free. Visit https://cast.ai Here's how it works: 1.Use CAST AI to deploy your K8s clusters. Next, take a look at the CAST AI…
2021 · its alternatives →
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Cost monitoring for Kubernetes workloads and cloud costs - opencost/opencost
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Cloudchipr▲138Cloud costs observability,management and automation platform
Jan 2026 · cloudchipr.com · its alternatives →
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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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OpenTelemetry-native observability for agents and LLMs
Aug 2026 · openobserve.ai · its alternatives →
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CLI for determining the cost of Kubernetes workloads - kubecost/kubectl-cost
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Activepieces▲212We observed two main points in the AI automation industry that led us to these decisions: 1. *Compute is so much cheaper now compared to 15 years ago. Why are users still paying like it’s 2010?* So, we made tasks/runs unlimited on all our paid cloud plans. We still have an open-source, self-hosted version, but for cloud users, they will now pay for premium features and have the freedom to use them as much as they want. 1. *Building a good AI agent is a knowledge transfer task, so everyone should be able to build their own agents.* If every time I need to automate something or build an…
2023 · activepieces.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, My name is Ben Schaechter and I’m Co-Founder and CEO of https://vantage.sh - a cloud cost visibility and optimization platform. We just added support for monitoring OpenAI costs and usage to Vantage and I wanted to share a demo we put together with HN as I thought people might find it interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzAOU1-uMrM In early April we started getting requests from customers to add OpenAI cost support specifically as it was a bit opaque as to what exactly was driving costs. The way this works is that it uses an undocumented API available…
2023 · its alternatives →
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Monitor compute, GPU, storage, and network costs allocated by namespace, deployment, or label. Identify pod waste and rightsize workloads.
2021 · vantage.sh · its alternatives →
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Since there’s a few discussions recently on $4 VPSes we thought you might be interested in Symbiosis, a cheaper and simpler managed k8s provider. Supported features include external LBs, encrypted+replicated storage and autoscaler. Infrastructure can be managed with UI, CLI, Terraform or Pulumi. Control planes are free of charge and a 1vCPU/2GB node goes for $6 per month. We’re live in Germany right now and we’re expanding into US during 2023. Feel free to try it out and leave a comment.
2023 · symbiosis.host · its alternatives →
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BottleNetes▲46Uncorking K8s bottlenecks and insights, one pod at a time
2025 · bottlenetes.com · its alternatives →
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Hey all - I work at Vantage, a FinOps platform. I know AI is peak hype right now. But it has definitely changed some of our dev workflows already. So we wanted to find a way to let our customers experiment with how they can use AI to make their cloud cost management work more productive. The MCP Server acts as a connector between LLMs (right now only Claude, Cursor support it but ChatGPT and Google Gemini coming soon) and your cost and usage data on Vantage which supports 20+ cloud infra providers including AWS, Datadog, Mongo, etc. (You have to have a Vantage account to use it since it's…
2025 · its alternatives →
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Hi everyone, I run a generative AI infra company, unified API for 600+ models. Our team started deploying AI agents for our marketing and lead gen ops: content, engagement, analytics across multiple X accounts. OpenClaw worked fine for single agents. But at ~14 agents across 6 accounts, the problem shifted from "how do I build agents" to "how do I manage them." Deployment, monitoring, team isolation, figuring out which agent broke what at 3am. Classic orchestration problem. So I built klaw, modeled on Kubernetes: Clusters — isolated environments per org/project Namespaces — team-level…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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We launched Infracost on HN five years ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26064588) where our CLI generated cost estimates for infra-as-code, e.g. "this Terraform PR adds $400/mo". The idea was to shift cloud costs (FinOps) left, so engineers get visibility of costs before deployment and make better decisions. Earlier this year we started seeing agent traffic in our logs and it looked like coding agents were calling our CLI. But that CLI wasn't designed with coding agents in mind. We went down a philosophical rabbit hole to see if a CLI is even needed anymore given…
Jun 2026 · cost.dev · its alternatives →
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AI control plane to schedule, run, debug, observe, and automate AI/ML workloads, agents, and sandboxes on your infra.
2018 · polyaxon.com · its alternatives →
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Kubernetes cost optimization - catch expensive resource changes before they merge - WozzHQ/wozz
Dec 2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Optimize EKS costs with pod rightsizing, Karpenter vs. Auto Mode, Spot Instances, Graviton, and Compute Savings Plans.
2021 · cast.ai · its alternatives →
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