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Kubecost

Kubecost provides real-time cost monitoring and management for Kubernetes environments. Its APIs enable programmatic access to cost allocation data, asset costs, cloud provider spend, budget governance, cost forecasting, and savings recommendations for optimizing Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure spending.

Kubecost publishes 1 API on the APIs.io network: Model API. Tagged areas include Cloud Cost, Cost Monitoring, Kubernetes, Optimization, and Spending.

The Kubecost catalog on APIs.io includes 1 JSON-LD context and 1 Spectral governance ruleset.

📡 Source on GitHub
28.7/100 thin ▬ flat Agent 20/100 agent aware Full breakdown ↓
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
AccessEnterprise
6 APIs
Cloud CostCost MonitoringKubernetesOptimizationSpending

Kin Score

Kin Score Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-09-08 · rubric v0.20.0
Composite quality — 28.7/100 · thin
Contract Quality 14.1 / 23
Developer Ergonomics 1.7 / 18
Access Clarity 2.8 / 18
Operational Transparency 0.9 / 12
Contract Governance 1.1 / 11
Discoverability 5.8 / 9
Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10
Agent readiness — 20/100 · agent aware
Machine-Readable Contract 18 / 18
Agentic Access Contract 10 / 10
Documented Reversibility 0 / 6
MCP Server 0 / 12
Machine-Readable Auth 0 / 10
Idempotency 0 / 9
Stable Error Semantics 0 / 8
Request/Response Examples 7 / 7
Rate-Limit Signaling 7 / 7
Typed Event Surface 0 / 6
Agent Skills 0 / 5
Well-Known Catalog 0 / 4
Consent & Bot Identity 0 / 3
A2A Agent Card 0 / 8
Dry-Run / Simulate Mode 0 / 4
Delegated User Identity 0 / 6
Protected Resource Metadata 0 / 5
Registration Without a Human 0 / 6
Agentic Commerce Well-Known Document 0 / 5
Create-or-Update Ergonomics applies to this provider. This API accepts writes, so it carries 10 points of the composite. It is scored from the published contracts themselves: whether a caller can create-or-update in one call, whether the write accepts a key the caller already holds, and whether the response says which branch ran. Without that, every write needs a search-and-branch in front of it, and the first time that check is skipped a duplicate record is created. Scored against the observed mean rather than raw — a provider at the catalog average is unchanged by this facet, not penalised by it.
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APIs 1

Individual APIs this provider publishes, each with its own machine-readable definition.

Kubecost Model API

The Model API from Kubecost — 15 operation(s) for model.

Open Collections 8

Open, tool-agnostic API collections (OpenAPI-derived and Bruno).

API Collection

OPEN COLLECTION

Kubecost Allocation API

OPEN COLLECTION

Kubecost Assets API

OPEN COLLECTION

Kubecost Budget API

OPEN COLLECTION

Kubecost Cloud Cost API

OPEN COLLECTION

Kubecost Forecast API

OPEN COLLECTION

Kubecost Allocation Model API

OPEN COLLECTION

Kubecost Savings API

OPEN COLLECTION

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Pricing Plans 1

Published pricing tiers and plan structures.

Kubecost Plans Pricing

3 plans

PLANS

Rate Limits 1

Documented rate limits and quota policies.

Kubecost Rate Limits

2 limits

RATE LIMITS

FinOps 1

Cost, billing, and metering signals for API financial operations.

Kubecost Finops

FINOPS

Semantic Vocabularies 1

JSON-LD contexts and semantic vocabularies used across these APIs.

Kubecost Context

0 classes · 7 properties

JSON-LD

Spectral Rules 1

Spectral governance rulesets for linting and validating these APIs.

Kubecost API Rules

5 rules · 3 warnings 2 info

SPECTRAL

JSON Schema 14

Standalone JSON Schema definitions for this provider's data models.

Kubecost Allocation

37 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Kubecost Asset

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Kubecost Budget Action

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Kubecost Budget

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Kubecost Cloud Cost

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Kubecost Forecast

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Allocation

37 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Asset

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Budget

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BudgetAction

3 properties

JSON SCHEMA

BudgetInput

6 properties

JSON SCHEMA

ClusterSizingRecommendation

8 properties

JSON SCHEMA

RequestSizingRecommendation

10 properties

JSON SCHEMA

Kubecost Savings Recommendation

16 properties

JSON SCHEMA

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JSON Structure 1

JSON Structure definitions describing this provider's data shapes.

Kubecost Structure

0 properties

JSON STRUCTURE

Security Posture 1

Authentication, domain security, vulnerability disclosure, and trust-center signals.

Kubecost Domain Security

TLSv1.3 · HSTS · DMARC

SECURITY

Agentic Access 1

Recommended x-agentic-access execution contracts for AI agents.

Kubecost Agentic Access

18 operations · 3 acting

18 operations · 3 acting

AGENTIC

Resources

Agent Surfaces 1

MCP servers, agent skills, and machine-readable catalogs

AgenticAccess
AgenticAccess

Build 1

SDKs, sample code, and the tooling you integrate with

GitHubOrganization
GitHubOrganization

Access & Security 1

Authentication, authorization, and security posture

DomainSecurity
DomainSecurity

Company 1

The organization behind the API

LinkedIn
LinkedIn

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap
CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

apis.yml Raw ↑ 
aid: kubecost
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-search/kubecost/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
common:
- type: CapabilityMap
  url: capabilities/kubecost-capability-edges.yml
  name: Kubecost Business Capability Map
- type: AgenticAccess
  url: agentic-access/kubecost-agentic-access.yml
- type: DomainSecurity
  url: security/kubecost-domain-security.yml
- type: GitHubOrganization
  url: https://github.com/kubecost
- type: LinkedIn
  url: https://www.linkedin.com/company/kubecost
apis:
- aid: kubecost:kubecost-model-api
  name: Kubecost Model API
  description: The Model API from Kubecost — 15 operation(s) for model.
  humanURL: https://docs.kubecost.com/apis/monitoring-apis/api-allocation
  tags:
  - Model
  properties:
  - type: OpenAPI
    url: openapi/kubecost-model-api-openapi.yml
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.kubecost.com/apis/monitoring-apis/api-allocation
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/allocation.json
  - type: JSONLD
    url: json-ld/kubecost-context.jsonld
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.kubecost.com/apis/monitoring-apis/assets-api
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/asset.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.kubecost.com/apis/monitoring-apis/cloud-cost-api
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/cloud-cost.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.kubecost.com/apis/governance-apis/budget-api
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/budget.json
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/budget-action.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.kubecost.com/apis/governance-apis/forecast-api
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/forecast.json
  - type: Documentation
    url: https://docs.kubecost.com/apis/savings-apis
  - type: JSONSchema
    url: json-schema/savings-recommendation.json
name: Kubecost
tags:
- Cloud Cost
- Cost Monitoring
- Kubernetes
- Optimization
- Spending
kind: contract
deliveryModel:
  model: unknown
  open_source: false
  commercial: false
  callable_host: false
  label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
  confidence: low
  source:
  - openapi
  generated: '2026-08-28'
  method: derived
accessModel:
  pricing: enterprise
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Enterprise
  confidence: medium
  source:
  - plans
  generated: '2026-07-22'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/kubecost.png
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2024-11-13'
modified: '2026-05-19'
position: Consuming
description: Kubecost provides real-time cost monitoring and management for Kubernetes environments. Its APIs enable programmatic
  access to cost allocation data, asset costs, cloud provider spend, budget governance, cost forecasting, and savings recommendations
  for optimizing Kubernetes and cloud infrastructure spending.
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
  email: kin@apievangelist.com
specificationVersion: '0.23'

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