Komodor vs Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform comparison

Komodor and Red Hat are both solutions in the Container Management category. Komodor is ranked #13 with an average rating of 8.0, while Red Hat is ranked #1 with an average rating of 8.3. Komodor holds a 4.0% mindshare in CM, compared to Red Hat’s 19.7% mindshare. Additionally, 100% of Komodor users are willing to recommend the solution, compared to 96% of Red Hat users who would recommend it.

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Executive SummaryUpdated on Oct 13, 2024

Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform and Komodor both operate within the realm of container orchestration and real-time Kubernetes troubleshooting. OpenShift seems to have an edge in comprehensive features for deployment and management, while Komodor excels in specialized troubleshooting.

Features: Red Hat OpenShift is recognized for its comprehensive automation, scalability, and robust security features. The platform supports centralized control of container resources and provides user-friendly interfaces with easy deployment through OpenShift Operator. Komodor offers real-time monitoring and debugging, with features that provide clear insights and facilitate faster problem resolution. Its event timelines and notifications enhance the visibility and management of Kubernetes deployments.

Room for Improvement: OpenShift could benefit from a more simplified deployment process and reduced complexity for users unfamiliar with complex architectures. Enhancing user interface navigation and optimizing resource costs could also be beneficial. Komodor could expand its documentation and tutorials to better assist new users. Additional integration capabilities with various Kubernetes tools and improved scalability options could enhance its usability.

Ease of Deployment and Customer Service: OpenShift's deployment, though feature-rich, requires a certain level of expertise in complex architectures, with reliable customer support. Komodor is noted for its straightforward deployment process and strong support channels, which allow for efficient implementation and issue resolution.

Pricing and ROI: OpenShift’s structured pricing reflects its extensive feature set, potentially resulting in higher initial setup costs but offering broad capabilities for large-scale operations. Komodor generally provides a more affordable option with quicker ROI, focusing on cost-effective troubleshooting within Kubernetes environments.

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Categories and Ranking

Komodor

Ranking in Container Management

13th

Average Rating

8.8

Reviews Sentiment

9.0

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Red Hat OpenShift Container...

Ranking in Container Management

1st

Average Rating

8.4

Reviews Sentiment

6.8

Number of Reviews

Ranking in other categories

No ranking in other categories

Mindshare comparison

As of September 2025, in the Container Management category, the mindshare of Komodor is 4.0%, up from 0.5% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is 19.7%, down from 21.7% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.

Container Management Market Share Distribution
Product	Market Share (%)
Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform	19.7%
Komodor	4.0%
Other	76.3%

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Jacek Kisynski

Senior Staff Software Developer at Visier

Makes it easier for our development team to "own" Kubernetes, saving our SRE team time

There's nothing in particular that is wrong with Komodor. It's hard to say that there's something we would really like to see improved. I hope that the cost analytics and resource usage allocation areas will see further development. For example, where we can now see if the pods are over- or under-provisioned, I wouldn't mind higher-level development. I would like to see if we're utilizing nodes in the cluster, if pod allocation is optimal, how much idling we have, and whether we scale up and down efficiently. I would like to see them help us optimize costs further. Because, as our company grows and our clusters get busier and busier, any inefficiency is a lot of money wasted. That's definitely high on our wish list: anything that helps us track wasted resources. I am looking forward to using AI-powered troubleshooting workflow that Komodor unrolled recently.

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Rifat Rahman

Infrastructure Architect & CEO at Tirzok Private Limited

Integration and automation have transformed deployment and maintenance

Regarding the learning curve, the customers actually do not need the technical nitty-gritty details; they need to know about the containerization journey because they are not familiar with it. They know it as a theory, but they don't understand anything about its practical implications. That's the main challenge. The solution itself doesn't require a high learning curve; it is actually quite good to manage. However, application developers and managers have to understand the beauty of it, and that is the challenge. If Red Hat can execute some programs regarding that, it will help. Regarding Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform, it is expensive according to market feedback. Notably, the platform plus is perceived as quite expensive and some features from an infrastructure perspective are lacking.

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Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"The most valuable aspect is the speed with which I can narrow down what's going on. Usually, I look at the overview of events and then the timeline of an event and the status of the logs to quickly check what's happening or what has happened."

"The service overview is definitely the most valuable feature. With it, I can see all the services and see if they're healthy or not without having to go specifically into each workflow individually. It has been immensely helpful for us whenever we've had network issues or other such issues. We've been able to use Komodor and see at a glance where there might be potential issues."

"Komodor's multi-cluster centralized event timeline is the most valuable feature."

"The event timeline has been super helpful, enabling us to overlay node events in the same timeline as deployment events... That helps an engineer very quickly troubleshoot without having to do too much digging."

"The more time we use Komodor the more we save. Currently, we have seen around a ten percent return on investment."

"The console or the GUI of OpenShift is awesome. You can do a lot of things from there. You can perform administration tasks as well as development tasks."

"The operating system has a live update and is more secure than any other. It's made for Atomic OS, a lightweight OS new to the market. I also like the source-to-image capabilities. The customer can directly deploy their applications from the repository. It's a highly flexible and easy way to deploy into production."

"OpenShift provides tools that tell me everything I have on a container, and I can make it on-premise or on a cloud infrastructure."

"Everything is packaged into OpenShift Container Platform."

"I like the Flexibility of the solution."

"It is easy to expand."

"The platform has significantly improved our organization by enhancing productivity and reducing the time required to deploy applications."

"I definitely recommend Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform to other organizations due to its high availability, security, ease of use, and all the built-in features it offers."

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Cons

"I like the alerts that Komodor provides, but I think the alert interface could be improved."

"I would like to see improvements in how the product is installed. We've already communicated these things directly to Komodor. One feature we would like to see is for Komodor to be highly available on the clusters. Currently, it's only able to run in one instance within the cluster."

"I hope that the cost analytics and resource usage allocation areas will see further development. For example, where we can now see if the pods are over- or under-provisioned, I wouldn't mind higher-level development."

"Komodor's visibility could be improved."

"One thing we don't have visibility into, which I would love to have, is metrics, such as user logins and usage. It's really hard to know what people are doing when I don't have any metrics on that directly."

"One area for product improvement is the support limitations within the subscription models, particularly the restricted support hours for lower-tier subscriptions."

"The support costs are too high."

"From a networking perspective, the routing capability can be matured further. OpenShift doesn't handle restrictions on what kind of IPs are allowed, who can access them, and who cannot access them. So it is a simple matter of just using it with adequate network access, at the network level."

"The product could benefit from additional operators and tools integrated with OpenShift."

"Quality of support may be improved."

"We encounter difficulties while accessing the environment and managing the cluster. This particular area needs improvement."

"There is room for improvement with integration."

"OpenShift has certain restrictions in terms of managing the cluster when it's running on a public cloud. For example, identity and access management integration with the IM of AWS is quite difficult. It requires some open-source tools to integrate. This is one area where I always see room for improvement."

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Pricing and Cost Advice

"Other options pop up, but Komodor's pricing works well for our use case. It's fair, and we appreciate it. A lot of other vendors price their solutions in a way that would cost us disproportionately more money than they should. Komodor's pricing is reasonable in the way they calculate usage and value."

"The licensing model is fine. It is per node, which is good, but the pricing is high. Currently, I am fine with it, but I am a little concerned about the pricing as we scale. So, it is on the higher end. On a scale of one to ten, where ten is the most expensive, Komodor is a seven."

"As far as I can recall, the licensing cost was fair."

"We pay according to the number of resources we have; if we are a small start-up, we have fewer resources and thus pay less."

"Its licensing is completely incomprehensible. We have special people within our company. They discuss with Red Hat subscription managers. It is too complex, and I do not understand it. We are from the government, and we are trying to be as cheap as possible. Sometimes, I am just amazed at the amount of money that we have to pay. It is crazy."

"The solution is expensive, and I rate it an eight out of ten. There is a subscription called OpenShift Plus, which offers additional features and products the vendor provides to complement the OpenShift Container Platform. These include ACM, Red Hat Quay, and Red Hat OpenShift Data Foundation."

"OpenShift pricing varies by region. For example, a simple cluster with three nodes in DAL-10 might cost around $560 to $580 per month, subject to specific configurations like memory and CPU cores."

"OpenShift with Red Hat support is pretty costly. We have done a comparison between AWS EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Services) which provides fully managed services from AWS. It's built on open-source-based Kubernetes clusters and it is much cheaper compared to Red Hat, but it is a little expensive compared to ECS provided by AWS."

"The price is slightly on the higher side. It is something that can be worked on because most of the businesses now have margins."

"I'm an architect, so I have no involvement in the pricing and licensing of the platform."

"Its price is a bit high because it's a premium product, but as long as the business is ready to pay for that, it's okay."

"The product pricing is competitive and structured around vCPU subscriptions, aligning with our application requirements."

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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews

Computer Software Company

15%

Comms Service Provider

10%

Financial Services Firm

Media Company

Financial Services Firm

20%

Computer Software Company

11%

Government

Manufacturing Company

Company Size

By reviewers

Large Enterprise

Midsize Enterprise

Small Business

No data available

By reviewers
Company Size	Count
Small Business	14
Midsize Enterprise	4
Large Enterprise	39

Questions from the Community

What do you like most about Komodor?

The most valuable aspect is the speed with which I can narrow down what's going on. Usually, I look at the overview of events and then the timeline of an event and the status of the logs to quickly...

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What needs improvement with Komodor?

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What is your primary use case for Komodor?

We are an HR analytics company, and we do a lot of data processing. Our customers send us their HR-related data, and we process it so that we can run analytics on it. We process it on Kubernetes cl...

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Which is better - OpenShift Container Platform or VMware Tanzu Mission Control?

Red Hat Openshift is ideal for organizations using microservices and cloud environments. I like that the platform is auto-scalable, which saves overhead time for developers. I think Openshift can b...

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What do you like most about OpenShift Container Platform?

The tool's most valuable features include high availability, scalability, and security. Other features like advanced cluster management, advanced cluster security, and Red Hat Quay make it powerful...

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What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for OpenShift Container Platform?

Regarding whether Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform is expensive or if the price is reasonable for my customers, to me, the services it provides should incur some costs, but based on market feed...

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Overview

Komodor is the missing piece in your DevOps toolchain - offering one unified platform from which you can gain a deep understanding of all of your system events and changes. We integrate with all of your tools, monitor changes and alerts and organize information on a clear digestible dashboard and provide you with the right context at the right time.

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Red Hat® OpenShift® offers a consistent hybrid cloud foundation for building and scaling containerized applications. Benefit from streamlined platform installation and upgrades from one of the enterprise Kubernetes leaders.

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