Kunobi vs srelens
Kunobi
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srelens
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| Figure | Kunobi | srelens |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $912/mo | Free |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | Yes |
| Web | — | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | Yes |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 3 | 1 |
| Spec score · Local Kubernetes Tools | 8.0 (#10) | 8.3 (#3) |
| Helm | Kunobi provides views for inspecting Helm releases and spotting configuration changes. | Helm releases can be inspected, upgraded, rolled back or uninstalled with rendered-diff previews. |
| Integrations | The Pro plan lists one-click integration with EKS, GKE, AKS, and other providers. | The built-in MCP server connects to MCP clients such as Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Codex over stdio or loopback HTTP. |
| Intended users | The maker describes Free as for individual developers and Pro as for power users running production workloads. | The project describes srelens as built for engineers and AI agents, and its repository names SREs, platform engineers, and DevOps engineers as users. |
| Resource coverage | Kunobi advertises dedicated views for more than 105 resources, including Kubernetes core, Flux, Argo CD, cert-manager, and Prometheus. | It supports browsing across 40+ Kubernetes resource kinds, including workloads, networking, storage, RBAC, admission, autoscaling, and custom resources. |
Plans
In their own words
Kunobi
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.
srelens
srelens is a Kubernetes desktop workspace for browsing, inspecting, and operating clusters. It covers more than 40 resource kinds, including workloads, networking, storage, RBAC, admission, autoscaling, and custom resources. Investigation tools include live watches, log streaming, in-pod terminals, port forwarding, Helm release views, and a schema-aware YAML editor. CPU and memory metrics for nodes and pods come through Kubernetes Metrics Server. Users can scale or restart workloads and cordon, drain, or evict nodes; destructive actions require confirmation. The desktop app connects directly to Kubernetes API servers using local kubeconfig credentials, without an intermediary srelens cloud service. Available operations depend on the selected context’s credentials and RBAC permissions. Added kubeconfig files stay local, and pasted configs are stored in the application directory. Secret values are masked by default and revealed per key. The built-in MCP server connects to clients such as Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, and Codex. srelens is free, open source under the MIT license, and requires no account or license key.