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IBM Kubecost vs North Cloud comparison

 

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Executive Summary

Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

IBM Kubecost
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
15th
Average Rating
9.4
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
North Cloud
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
7th
Average Rating
10.0
Reviews Sentiment
3.9
Number of Reviews
5
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of January 2026, in the Cloud Cost Management category, the mindshare of IBM Kubecost is 1.6%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of North Cloud is 0.7%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Cost Management Market Share Distribution
ProductMarket Share (%)
North Cloud0.7%
IBM Kubecost1.6%
Other97.7%
Cloud Cost Management
 

Featured Reviews

DIRK UYTTERHOEVEN - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Enterprise Architect at DV Consulting
Identifies and eliminates overprovisioning of expensive resources like storage, highly scalable and offers performance
I like the overall product because I can select what monitoring should be enabled and whatnot. In our case, we really focus on performance because it's clear that the price is related to most performance setups. So the more performance, the more expensive. So we look into the performance that the customer needs, and then based upon that feedback from the remote control, we change the parameters. And even the end user will not notice it is not using it, so we just make money without any impact on the end users.
Evan Kesten - PeerSpot reviewer
CTO & Co-Founder at Cabinet
Need broader cloud savings but have reduced compute costs and extended financial runway
I have found the integration very seamless and easy. The best features North Cloud offers are easy onboarding integration and a non-invasive business model. I find the easy onboarding integration and non-invasive business model to be the best features because we were able to reduce spend on our AWS bill without using any internal employee hours and without worrying about any complicated account changes.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"I mostly like the dashboards."
"The price is reasonable, considering the value it delivers."
"It offers a detailed examination of your cluster, including the types of instances utilized, allocated CPU and RAM, and resource distribution for specific applications."
"North Cloud was able to get us access to savings plans that cut approximately 20% from our monthly AWS costs."
"North Cloud has positively impacted my organization by reducing our AWS bill by 15%."
"North has been an excellent partner in managing our AWS costs."
"North Cloud has been a great partner in helping us navigate cloud cost savings."
 

Cons

"The integration with other solutions could be improved."
"Faster monitoring could potentially improve overall stability in the production environment."
"There is a significant potential for enhancing it through the incorporation of advanced technologies like AI and generative AI."
"I think North Cloud could be improved with additional savings for more AWS services."
 

Pricing and Cost Advice

"The real savings come from using Kubecost features like autoscaling and serverless functions to optimize your resource usage. If you treat it like a data center migration without fine-tuning, it might cost more."
"The cost of the tool may seem nominal compared to the potential savings in infrastructure expenses."
"The cost is cheap. Kubecost has an open-source core."
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Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Kubecost?
The price is reasonable, considering the value it delivers.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Kubecost?
The price is reasonable, considering the value it delivers. In all honesty, once you have your optimal design, you could just turn it off and then activate it maybe once every six months or once ev...
What needs improvement with Kubecost?
In future releases, I would like to see faster monitoring because it could potentially improve overall stability in the production environment.
What needs improvement with North Cloud?
North recently added support for database reservations, which would have been next on my wish list. I look forward to their menu expanding as AWS adds additional savings vehicles.
What advice do you have for others considering North Cloud?
The team is extremely helpful and communicative. Immediately upon working with them, they set up a Slack connect channel and give you a live line of communication with someone in their engineering ...
 

Comparisons

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Also Known As

Kubecost - Amazon EKS cost monitoring
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