Making it easier to operate cloud native infrastructure at scale

Kubecost started in early 2019 as an open-source tool to give developers visibility into Kubernetes spend. We maintain a deep commitment to building and supporting dedicated solutions for the open source community.

Today, we empower more than one thousand teams across companies of all sizes to monitor and reduce costs, while balancing cost, performance, and reliability.

About our team and company

Our founders, ex-Googlers working on infrastructure monitoring, saw firsthand the challenges teams faced as they adopted containers and Kubernetes. Together, they founded our company to empower developers to identify costs and optimize their resources.

We’re a small, passionate group of builders and doers, laser-focused on building incredible products and delighting our customers. Our team is close-knit even though we’re fully remote, and we view our company as a product, too—iterating, learning, and improving as we grow.
 

Our Mission

We’re leading Kubernetes-first cloud infrastructure optimization by empowering teams with meaningful, insightful, and impactful data.

Our product experience is based on 4 strongly held beliefs:

• Every team should have free access to our core software, regardless of budget.
• Developers should be able to install and experience all Kubecost features in minutes, without contacting sales.
• Our software should be open, transparent, modifiable, and emphasize interoperability.
• Users should have total control over their data—they shouldn’t have to share private information with us.

Our Values

• Strive for excellence, get results  - We aim high & take pride in our work, but maintain focus on progress, not perfection.
• Welcome diversity - We’re inclusive, embrace our differences, invite new perspectives & disagree respectfully.
• Be an awesome communicator - We think clearly, communicate directly, and listen with empathy & the desire to understand.
• Launch & learn  - We are resourceful, biased toward action/experimentation, and value a growth mindset.
• Celebrate contribution - We maintain a deep commitment to open source, are community-oriented & love feedback.
• Context, not control - We believe in empowered decision-making through transparency, flexibility & data.
• Love the user - We are curious about end user experience—no matter who the end user of our work is.