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 contract indexed 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.

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24.2/100 emerging ▬ flat Agent 19/100 agent aware Front door AI 4/6 moderate Heartbeat 100/100 alive Full breakdown ↓
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6 published contracts

Cloud Cost Cost Monitoring Kubernetes Optimization Spending

What this lets a business do 1

Business capabilities this provider's published APIs can perform, derived from its own contracts. Browse all capabilities →

Information Technology Management

BC-600

Model

GET /model/allocation POST /model/budget GET /model/cloudCost GET /model/cloudCost/top

Kin Score

Kin Score How this is scored →
scored 2026-11-06 · rubric v0.27.0

Composite quality — 24.2/100 · emerging

Contract Quality 10.2 / 19

Developer Ergonomics 1.4 / 15

Access Clarity 1.2 / 15

Operational Transparency 0.8 / 10

Contract Governance 0.9 / 9

Discoverability 4.7 / 8

Regulatory Posture 1.6 / 15

Create-or-Update Ergonomics 0.0 / 10

Agent readiness — 19/100 · 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

Pagination 0 / 5

Distinct Operations 3 / 3

MCP Tool Quality 6 / 6

Regulatory Posture applies to this provider. Its tags matched the Horizontal (data, software, accessibility, platform) regime, so Regulatory Posture carries 15 points of the composite. If this regime is wrong for your business, say so on your provider repo — the applicability map is public and we will correct it.

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.

The six quality facets above are damped to 75 points between them, because the conditional facet above carries the other 25. That is why each facet's contribution is shown against a damped maximum: raising a quality facet moves the composite by 75% of its nominal weight, not 100%. The full arithmetic is at apis.io/rating/.

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Agent readiness — checks not met, largest first (exact, from this profile):

MCP Server +12 pts — deployment.mode + probe verdict on the mcp/ manifest, not the pointer; an unprobed slug falls back to authorship
Machine-Readable Auth +10 pts — a served openid-configuration/oauth-authorization-server carrying `issuer` (served), else the securitySchemes class in the provider OpenAPIs — bound (mutualTLS, DPoP, Signature) > negotiable (oauth2 authorizationCode/clientCredentials, openIdConnect) > bearer (http bearer, apiKey)
Idempotency +9 pts — OpenAPI mutating operations declare an idempotency key — a header, a request-body property, or a named de-duplication token whose own description says so (verified); else common[].type matches /idempoten/i (documented)
Stable Error Semantics +8 pts — OpenAPI $refs a shared error schema across 4xx/5xx responses (verified), else common[].type includes ErrorCatalog / ErrorCodes / DeclineCodes
A2A Agent Card +8 pts — a2a/-a2a.yml manifest, graded on conformance.grade against A2A 1.0.0
Registration Without a Human +6 pts — a `registration_endpoint` in the served RFC 8414 / OIDC discovery document

10 more unmet checks in the Agent Readiness table above.

Kin Score — facets with the most composite points still available (weight × headroom):

Access Clarity scores 7.9 — up to +18.4 composite points
Developer Ergonomics scores 9.5 — up to +18.1 composite points
Operational Transparency scores 7.9 — up to +12.0 composite points

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Markets this provider is in provisional

The Kin Score Market layer reads a provider inside its market: its position, and how deep its integrations go. Depth is only comparable within a position. Provisional and unweighted: not part of the Kin Score or agent readiness.

Market	Position	Depth	Registered MCP server	Declares compatibility
Cloud Native (Kubernetes, CNCF, FinOps)	standard	37.7 (thin)	-	-
Red Hat Certified Ecosystem (certified partner containers + certified OpenShift operators)	standard	37.7 (thin)	-	-

Registered MCP server and declares compatibility are report only — not weighted. Undeclared means we found nothing we can read, so there is no number: we never infer integrations.

Standards implemented 1

Standards this provider implements or carries. De facto ones are profiled and measured by the API Commons; formal ones come from the standards directory and are linked by the provider's own tags. The evidence column says how each claim was established — not that it was made.

OpenAPI

measured — observed by APIs.io (published)

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 7

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

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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Kubecost API pricing

Not yet checked against Kubecost's own pricing page. Compiled by API Evangelist on 2026-05-05 from www.apptio.com/pricing?src=kc-com; confirm before you rely on a figure. A free plan or tier is listed.

Plan	Price
Foundations freemium	Free
Enterprise (Self-hosted) enterprise	—
Enterprise Cloud (SaaS) enterprise	—

Plan details, limits and sources →

Rate limits

Self-hosted cost-model: governed by self-hosted cost-model resource limits varies
Enterprise Cloud SaaS: see vendor; not publicly documented varies

Compiled by API Evangelist, not yet checked against Kubecost's documentation. Rate-limit details →

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

Service Levels 1

Uptime the provider promises or reports, as SLA4OAI. Read from its own pages; APIs.io runs no monitors.

Kubecost

SLA

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 — jsonschema 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

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Kubecost Agentic Access

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

Operate 1

Status, limits, changes, and where to get help

RateLimits

RateLimits

Commercial 2

Pricing, plans, and the legal terms of use

Plans

Plans

FinOps

FinOps

Company 2

The organization behind the API

Website

Website

LinkedIn

Other 1

Properties that don't map to a standard resource type

CapabilityMap

CapabilityMap

Source (apis.yml)

aid: kubecost
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-search/kubecost/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
common:
- type: Plans
  url: plans/kubecost-plans-pricing.yml
- type: RateLimits
  url: rate-limits/kubecost-rate-limits.yml
- type: FinOps
  url: finops/kubecost-finops.yml
- type: Website
  url: https://kubecost.com
- 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: freemium
  onboarding: unknown
  trial: false
  try_now: false
  public: false
  label: Freemium
  confidence: low
  source:
  - plans
  - security
  generated: '2026-11-06'
  method: derived
image: https://kinlane-images.s3.amazonaws.com/shared/apis-json/icons/kubecost.png
access: 3rd-Party
created: '2024-11-13'
modified: '2026-09-16'
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'

Kubecost API — frequently asked questions

Does Kubecost have an API?

Yes. APIs.io lists 1 API from Kubecost, including Kubecost Model API.

Is there an OpenAPI specification for the Kubecost API?

Yes. APIs.io indexes 1 OpenAPI specification for Kubecost, each linked for download from this page.

How much does the Kubecost API cost?

APIs.io lists 3 pricing plans for Kubecost, with each plan's price, limits and inclusions under Pricing on this page.

Is the Kubecost API ready for AI agents?

Kubecost has a Kin Score of 24.2 out of 100 (emerging) and an Agent Readiness score of 19.0 (agent-aware), scored by API Evangelist on 2026-11-06.

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