Krossboard vs Podledger

Krossboard tracks Kubernetes cluster usage to help teams allocate costs and plan capacity. It can analyze multiple clusters configured through one or more KUBECONFIG files, with analytics for namespaces, nodes, and clusters. Views can be consolidated across minutes, hours, days, and months, and backing analytics data can be exported as CSV. Cost forecasting is available, with allocation at namespace granularity. The Kubernetes Operator deploys and manages Krossboard instances as pods; each deployed instance provides a UI and REST API. Krossboard is offered for web, API, and self-hosted use. Its free plan costs nothing and includes unlimited clusters, core analytics, and CSV export. It does not include discovery of managed AKS, EKS, or GKE clusters or support. Enterprise plans add managed-cluster discovery; Enterprise includes one year of access to maintained versions for bug and security fixes, while Enterprise Advanced offers up to three years and specific onboarding support. The maker is 2Alchemists SAS, based in Toulouse, France.

Podledger is an open-source Kubernetes cost monitoring and optimization platform. It shows real-time spending at pod, workload, and team levels through dashboards. Its AI engine examines workload patterns, resource use, and cost data, then recommends pod right-sizing, node-pool changes, and scheduling adjustments. The Autonomous tier can apply those changes automatically when configurable guardrails allow it. Podledger runs inside your Kubernetes cluster with read-only, least-privilege access and no sidecars, and installation is available through a Helm chart. Community Edition uses the Apache 2.0 license, is self-hosted, always free, and has no stated usage limits. Community supports one cloud and GitHub support. Enterprise adds managed hosting, infrastructure, security patches, automatic updates, RBAC, SSO, multi-cloud coverage for AWS, GCP, and Azure, and priority support with an SLA. Data retention is listed as 30 days. Plans include Community at free (billed Forever free) and Enterprise at usage-based pricing not listed.