Kunobi vs Orchard

Kunobi is a Kubernetes management platform for visibility and control of deployments across clusters and GitOps sources. It runs locally on macOS, Windows and Linux, connecting directly to clusters over the user's network. Kunobi says kubeconfig and cluster credentials stay on the user's device and that it does not proxy or store cluster traffic. Its interface brings Git and cluster resources together, with native Flux and Argo CD support and views for Helm releases and configuration changes. It advertises dedicated views for more than 105 resources, including Kubernetes core, Flux, Argo CD, cert-manager and Prometheus. The Free plan supports up to three clusters and can connect external AI tools through an MCP server. Pro lists unlimited clusters, integrations with EKS, GKE and AKS, cross-cluster log tailing, PromQL queries, metrics exploration and AI cluster actions with an approval firewall. Enterprise includes SAML SSO, SCIM provisioning, live onboarding, unified billing and usage analytics. Free costs nothing; Pro is listed at $912 a month with limited-time launch pricing, while paid pricing is also listed from $12/mo.

Orchard has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.