kubecost/kubectl-cost

Health v2 · maintenance only

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What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

kubectl-cost is a kubectl plugin that provides CLI access to Kubernetes cost data via Kubecost (or OpenCost) APIs, showing historical and predicted costs of workloads. It includes a TUI and a predict mode to estimate the cost impact of undeployed manifest changes.

Use cases

• check the monthly cost of a kubernetes deployment from the terminal
• estimate cost impact of a deployment change before applying it
• view cost efficiency of kubernetes workloads per namespace or controller
• browse cluster spend in a terminal TUI
• use opencost with a kubectl cost cli

When to choose

• you already run Kubecost or OpenCost and want quick CLI cost queries
• you want developers to self-serve workload cost info without dashboards
• you want to predict cost of undeployed YAML changes

When to avoid

• you have no Kubecost/OpenCost deployment in your cluster
• you need full FinOps reporting and dashboards rather than CLI lookups
• you need cost tracking outside Kubernetes

Facets

cli-tool · maturity active

cli monitoring analytics developer-tools cloud-computing analytics developer-tools cli cross-platform windows go kubectl-plugin kubernetes-cost finops kubecost opencost cost-estimation tui devops containers kubernetes linux macos

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