DevZero

Spec sheet

What it does

DevZero profiles, schedules and rightsizes Kubernetes workloads, including CPU and GPU resources, with zero-restarter optimization.Read 15 Oct 2026 · devzero.io

Product

DevZero describes itself as a Kubernetes optimization platform for workload rightsizing, node autoscaling, and security scanning.Read 4 Oct 2026 · devzero.io

Intended users

DevZero identifies platform engineers, DevOps teams managing multiple clusters, and engineering leaders tracking cloud spend as users of its platform.Read 4 Oct 2026 · devzero.io

Integrations

Official product material names Slack, GitHub and PagerDuty integrations, including GitHub Helm-values patches and PagerDuty incident suppression.Read 15 Oct 2026 · devzero.io

Security

DevZero states it has SOC 2 Type II certification and encrypts data in transit with mTLS and at rest with AES-256.Read 4 Oct 2026 · devzero.io

Support

The pricing page lists community support for Free, a dedicated account manager and SLA for Pro, and dedicated on-call service for Enterprise.Read 4 Oct 2026 · devzero.io

Founded

2022Read 28 Sep 2026 · devzero.io

API access

The CLI uses DevZero personal access tokens and a configurable API endpoint, and the inference tier exposes an OpenAI-compatible API.Read 15 Oct 2026 · devzero.io

CLI requirements

The CLI requires Node.js 18 or newer, npm or npx, kubectl access to the target cluster and Helm 3 for operator installation.Read 15 Oct 2026 · devzero.io

Cloud support

The platform supports AWS EKS, Google GKE, Azure AKS, Oracle OKE, OpenShift and on-premises Kubernetes.Read 15 Oct 2026 · devzero.io

Company founding and headquarters

Gartner lists DevZero as founded in 2021 and headquartered in Seattle, United States.Read 15 Oct 2026 · gartner.com

Company history

DevZero says it was founded in 2022 as a cloud development platform and began pivoting toward infrastructure technology in 2025.Read 4 Oct 2026 · devzero.io

Company legal name

Crunchbase identifies the legal name as DevInfra Inc., also known as DevInfra.Read 15 Oct 2026 · crunchbase.com

Company size

Gartner lists the company at 11–50 employees, while G2 displays 25 employees on LinkedIn.Read 15 Oct 2026 · gartner.com

Data collected

DevZero collects Kubernetes resource, workload, object, image-tag and network-flow metadata for optimization analysis.Read 15 Oct 2026 · devzero.io

Data collection

DevZero says its Read Operator collects Kubernetes resource and workload metadata but does not collect secrets, environment variables, or application data.Read 4 Oct 2026 · devzero.io

Data excluded

The read operator is documented as having no access to secrets and not collecting ConfigMap values, environment variables, application payloads or container filesystems.Read 15 Oct 2026 · devzero.io

Data residency

DevZero says it processes and stores data in a US primary region and offers an EU region for European customers.Read 4 Oct 2026 · devzero.io

Documentation depth

Documentation covers quickstart, CLI commands, multiple operators, policies, RBAC, Pulumi, Terraform, security and architecture references.Read 15 Oct 2026 · devzero.io

Fleet visibility

DevZero presents aggregated cost, utilization and drill-down views across clusters, clouds and regions.Read 15 Oct 2026 · devzero.io

Funding

Crunchbase lists two funding rounds, including a Series A, and names Madrona and Foundation Capital among three investors.Read 15 Oct 2026 · crunchbase.com

GPU optimization

The product collects GPU metrics on GPU nodes, and its Pro plan includes GPU infrastructure optimization.Read 4 Oct 2026 · devzero.io

Inference gateway

DevZero describes a self-hosted AI inference gateway with provider failover and support for OpenAI, Anthropic, Gemini, AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Mistral, and OpenAI-SDK-compatible services.Read 4 Oct 2026 · devzero.io

Inference optimization

The inference product routes requests across providers and adds caching, model evaluation and failover controls.Read 15 Oct 2026 · devzero.io

Limit: free Kubernetes tier

The free Kubernetes tier provides monitoring and visibility but does not allow actions such as node rightsizing or workload migration.Read 15 Oct 2026 · devzero.io

Limit: independent evidence

GetApp lists no user reviews and zero ratings, while Gartner Peer Insights also reports no reviews, leaving little independent customer evidence.Read 15 Oct 2026 · getapp.com

Limit: inference free tier

The free inference tier is limited to 100 requests per day, 20-plus open models and three shared providers.Read 15 Oct 2026 · devzero.io

Live migration

Its checkpoint-restore system can migrate stateful workloads during resource changes without restarting pods.Read 15 Oct 2026 · devzero.io

Maker history

DevZero says founders Debo Ray and Rob Fletcher previously worked at Uber and created the company to address large-scale Kubernetes inefficiency.Read 15 Oct 2026 · devzero.io

Open-source components

The read operator is described as open source, and the public zxporter repository is marked Apache-2.0; the Pulumi provider repository is marked MIT.Read 15 Oct 2026 · github.com

Optimization limitation

DevZero's in-place scaling requires Kubernetes 1.33 or newer with the required feature gate, and some changes fall back to rolling restarts.Read 4 Oct 2026 · devzero.io

Overall licensing

DevZero's hosted service and original content remain the company's exclusive property under its terms, so the overall product is not open source.Read 15 Oct 2026 · devzero.io

Praise: support

G2 shows DevZero's quality-of-support score as 10.0/10, above the category average of 9.1/10.Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com

Praise: user experience

G2 review titles praise the user experience, Kubernetes cost visibility, infrastructure performance and savings.Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com

Rating on G2

4.8 out of 5.0 from 4 reviews.Read 15 Oct 2026 · g2.com

Rating on Gartner Peer Insights

No rating out of 5; 0 reviews are listed.Read 15 Oct 2026 · gartner.com

Rating on GetApp

0.0 out of 5.0 from 0 reviews; the listing explicitly says no reviews.Read 15 Oct 2026 · getapp.com

Read-only installation

The quickstart installs a read-only zxporter operator that does not modify workloads, with Helm recommended for production deployments.Read 15 Oct 2026 · devzero.io

SDKs

DevZero publishes a native Pulumi provider for TypeScript, Python and Go and a Terraform provider with HCL resources.Read 15 Oct 2026 · devzero.io

Security controls

The company states that operator traffic uses mutual TLS, stored data uses AES-256, API access uses TLS 1.2 or newer, and DevZero maintains SOC 2 Type II certification.Read 15 Oct 2026 · devzero.io

Security scanning

The Security Operator scans container images and Kubernetes configurations for CVEs, exposed credentials, RBAC issues, infrastructure problems and CIS, NSA and PSS compliance.Read 15 Oct 2026 · devzero.io

Terraform resources

The Terraform provider manages clusters, workload policies and Karpenter-based node policies, with a module that can install operators.Read 15 Oct 2026 · devzero.io

Workload optimization

Its operators analyze cluster resource use and can generate or apply recommendations for workload resources, replicas, and node capacity.Read 4 Oct 2026 · devzero.io

Plans and prices

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Where Specifiction places it

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