Understand where your cloud spend goes and optimize it.
Kubernetes makes deploying easy — but tracking costs? That's a different story. Most teams face the same painful challenges.
Cloud bills grow 30-50% year over year. Without pod-level visibility, you can't find where money is being wasted.
Cloud provider bills show totals — not which pods, teams, or namespaces are driving the spend.
Teams spend weeks manually analyzing resource usage, writing HPA rules, and tuning requests — only to repeat it every quarter.
Running clusters across AWS, GCP, and Azure makes cost attribution a nightmare. No unified view, no single source of truth.
Podledger gives you complete cost visibility at the Kubernetes layer — from pod to team — and uses AI to automatically optimize your spend.
Our open-source core gives you powerful visibility. The paid tier adds AI-native automation and fully managed infrastructure.
Runs inside your cluster. Observes resource usage directly, without touching your workloads.
Read-only observability with least-privilege access. No sidecars, no disruption.
Not just raw numbers — pod-level visibility and AI recommendations that engineers can act on immediately.
Whether you're a fast-growing startup or a mid-size enterprise running multi-cloud infrastructure.
Read the Docs →Gain control over cloud budgets with team-level cost accountability.
Empower developers with cost data at the pod and workload level.
Optimize resource requests without breaking production workloads.
Chargeback reports and cost allocation across business units.
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Podledger is an open-source Kubernetes cost monitoring and optimization platform. It provides real-time, pod-level cost visibility and AI-driven recommendations to help engineering teams understand and reduce their cloud spend.
Unlike generic cloud cost tools, Podledger is purpose-built for Kubernetes. It provides pod-level granularity, team-level attribution, and AI-powered autonomous optimization — not just dashboards and reports. The open-source core ensures you're never locked in.
Yes, 100%. The Community Edition is open-source under Apache 2.0 and always free. You self-host it in your own cluster. There are no usage limits, hidden fees, or trials. The paid tier is optional for teams that need managed hosting and AI automation.
Podledger's AI engine analyzes your workload patterns, resource utilization, and cost data over time. It generates recommendations for right-sizing pods, optimizing node pools, and scheduling. In the Autonomous tier, it can automatically apply these changes with configurable guardrails.
Deploying is simple — install via Helm chart in under 5 minutes. Podledger runs as a lightweight deployment in your cluster with read-only access. Check our Wiki for step-by-step installation guides.