CloudBolt vs Skuber+

CloudBolt provides cloud management and Kubernetes rightsizing for teams governing and optimizing hybrid environments. CloudBolt CMP offers self-service provisioning under policies and standardized workflows. It supports more than 25 cloud providers and hypervisor platforms, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, IBM Cloud, VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix, OpenStack, OpenShift and Kubernetes. Its integration library contains more than 200 tools spanning IT service management, infrastructure-as-code, identity, security and backup. CMP governance includes role-based access, granular permissions, approvals, policy enforcement and audit trails. For cost oversight, it offers cross-environment visibility, budgets, quota enforcement, forecasts and optimization recommendations, along with cost allocation, budget alerts and commitment management. StormForge checks Kubernetes optimization recommendations against performance data and can apply validated changes automatically, with health checks and rollback. Its free trial covers full optimization on one cluster for 30 days. CMP Free costs nothing and includes core CMP capabilities for up to 100 resources, forever. CloudBolt also lists custom billing, paid support packages and professional services.

Skuber+ is a web-based SaaS platform for optimizing Kubernetes clusters through an agent installed on a customer’s cluster. It identifies over-provisioned resources, adjusts workload sizing, and uses bin-packing and autoscaling to reduce resource waste. Its dashboard reports costs by cluster, namespace, and workload, with 30-day trends and projected savings. Policies can adapt resources to traffic and development environments, including an Auto Balance policy for staging. The AI assistant analyzes CPU and memory use, suggests VPA and autoscaling settings, and answers Kubernetes questions. A single console shows multiple clusters, their status, resource use, and costs; users can revert to the pre-optimization state if performance falls short. AWS EKS and OCI OKE are supported, while Azure AKS and GCP GKE are marked coming soon. The agent supports Kubernetes version 1.33.1 or below and requires at least 600m CPU and 700 MiB memory. The Trial plan is free for 30 days and one cluster; Professional is $5 per vCPU, with no billing period specified.