Harness CCM
vs.
Kion
UPDATEd ON
13 Feb
2025
Full Multi-Cloud and Kubernetes Cost Visibility
Cost Categories and Perspectives give your teams deep insights into your combined multi-cloud and Kubernetes costs, viewed in the business context they need.
Automated Idle Resource Management
Harness Cloud AutoStopping™ saves customers up to 70% in their non-production environments by automatically detecting, shutting down, and auto-starting idle resources.
Kubernetes Cost Management
Detailed cluster cost analysis that enables easy attribution of shared cluster costs to users, as well as delivering recommendations for node-pool and workload rightsizing.
How does
Kion
compare?
Kion delivers great cloud governance features at the cost of providing their customers the multi-cloud cost visibility and automated cost savings features that Harness CCM provides.
Solution
Deployment Option
SaaS and Self-Hosted
Self Managed (installed in customer cloud environment)
Multi-Cloud Support
AWS, Azure, and GCP
AWS, AWS GovCloud, Azure, Azure Government and GCP
On-Prem Cost Monitoring
<with><with>
Kubernetes Only
<no><no>
Pricing Model
Percentage Cloud Spend
Flat Fee + Percentage of Cloud Spend
Cost Visibility
Cost Perspectives / Chargeback / Showback
<yes><yes>
<no><no>
Cost Categories / Dynamic Bucketing
<yes><yes>
<no><no>
Kubernetes Cost Allocation (By Node/Cluster/Workload)
<yes><yes>
<no><no>
Multi-Cloud Cost Visualizations
<yes><yes>
<no><no>
Import 3rd Party Costs
Coming soon
<no><no>
Out-of-the-Box Dashboards
<yes><yes>
<yes><yes>
Custom BI Dashboards
<yes><yes>
<no><no>
Forecasting
<yes><yes>
<no><no>
Cloud Inventory
<yes><yes>
<yes><yes>
Cost Optimization
Anomaly Detection
<yes><yes>
<no><no>
Automated Idle Resource Management
<yes><yes>
<with><with> Manual Schedule
Spot Orchestration
<yes><yes>
<no><no>
Cluster Orchestration on Spot Instances
<yes><yes>
<no><no>
Kubernetes Node-Pool Recommendations
<yes><yes>
<no><no>
Kubernetes Workload Recommendations
<yes><yes>
<no><no>
AWS Compute Recommendations
<yes><yes>
<yes><yes>
Azure Compute Recommendations
<yes><yes>
<yes><yes>
GCP Compute Recommendations
<no><no>
<yes><yes>
RI / SP Planning and Recommendations
<yes><yes>
<no><no>
Automated RI / SP Contract Execution
<yes><yes>
<no><no>
Cost Governance
Out-of-the-Box Governance Policy Rules
<yes><yes>
<yes><yes>
Automated Governance Rule Enforcement
<yes><yes>
<yes><yes>
AI Assisted Governance Rule Creation
<yes><yes>
<no><no>
Budgets
<yes><yes>
<yes><yes> Account Level with Enforcement
Alerts
<yes><yes>
<yes><yes>
Reporting
<yes><yes>
<yes><yes>
Administrative
Multi-Currency Support
<yes><yes>
<no><no>
MSP Margin Adjustments
<yes><yes>
<no><no>
Role-based Access Control
<yes><yes>
<yes><yes>
Full Audit Trails
<yes><yes>
<no><no>
APIs Available
<yes><yes>
<yes><yes>
24/7 Support Available
<yes><yes>
<no><no>
Training
<yes><yes>
<yes><yes>
Documentation
<yes><yes>
<yes><yes>
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