CloudZero can provide cost visibility across a variety of cloud and SaaS vendors beyond AWS, Azure and GCP, but lacks cost optimization for anything other than AWS.

Features	Digiusher	CloudZero
Solution
Deployment Option	SaaS, Dedicated Managed Hosting & Self-Hosting	SaaS
Multi-Cloud Support	AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba (OCI – Coming Soon!), Databricks	AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI + SaaS Apps
On-Prem Cost Monitoring	Kubernetes Only	NONE
Pricing Model	Fixed Annual Subscription Fees	Fixed Annual Fees
Enterprise Pricing Model with Unlimited Spend, Accounts, Users, Subscriptions	Enterprise Annual Subscription Available	NOT AVAILABLE
Cost Visibility
Cost Perspectives / Chargeback / Showback	YES	YES
Cost Categories / Dynamic Bucketing	YES	YES
Kubernetes Cost Allocation (By Node/Cluster/Workload)	YES	Cluster Agent Required
Multi-Cloud Cost Visualizations	YES	YES
Databricks Cost Visibility	YES	YES
Snowflakes Cost Visibility	Coming Soon!	YES
Import 3rd Party Costs	Coming Soon!	YES
Out-of-the-Box Dashboards	YES	YES
Custom BI Dashboards	YES	NO
Forecasting	YES	YES
Cloud Inventory	YES	YES
Cost Optimization
Anomaly Detection	YES	YES
Spot Orchestration	YES (through Partner)	YES (through partner)
Idle Resource Management	YES	NO
Cluster Orchestration on Spot Instances	YES (through Partner)	YES (through partner)
AWS Compute Recommendations	YES	YES
Azure Compute Recommendations	YES	YES
GCP Compute Recommendations	YES	YES
RI / SP Planning and Recommendations	YES	YES
Governance
Budgets	YES	YES
Alerts	YES	YES
Reporting	YES	YES
Dynamic Shared Cost Allocation	YES	YES
Unit Economics	YES	YES
Administrative
Multi-Currency Support	YES	NO
Role-based Access Control	YES	NO
Full Audit Trails	YES	NO
Training	YES	YES
Documentation	YES	YES
Support Available	8X5 through Email and Support Website	8X5 Support Available
MSP-Specific
Single Dashboard to manage multiple clients	YES	NO
Billing Engine	Coming Soon!	NO

Summary: 

CloudZero provides strong visibility into costs across multiple cloud environments beyond just AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform. They’ve developed a unique system for importing costs from third-party cloud providers such as Snowflake, NewRelic, MongoDB, Databricks, and more that can give their users a more complete view of their application spend. As with many vendors (like Digiusher), they can normalize these costs and present them in views that match their users’ business contexts.

However, if you want to save money, and not just count it, then you’ll need to look beyond CloudZero, as they don’t have any automated cost savings features built-in, and their recommendations only apply to AWS (and in fact, you must be an AWS user to use CloudZero.) They’ve partnered with 2 other firms for cost-savings automation features for AWS – a classic super startup style. 

Digiusher is your one-stop for all your cloud cost visibility, optimization, and governance needs, providing native automation that can help you save up to 80% on your cloud costs and even though we work with partners as well, customers can rely on single contract for leveraging the functionalities.. 

Cost Optimization

You don’t want to just see your cloud costs, you want to reduce your costs and have the best cloud efficiency possible for your cloud spend across your multi-cloud environments, preferably with strong automation built-in to reduce the burden for your engineering teams.

CloudZero primarily focuses on cost visibility, which has left its cost optimization features lacking. The Cloud Advisor tool that is meant to surface cost savings opportunities remains in beta. Their Insights focus on AWS savings opportunities only, and it’s likely you’ll get the same level of information from AWS directly. In order to provide automated cost savings, CloudZero requires you to bring third-party vendors on board to provide AWS Spot Instance Orchestration (Xospere) and Savings Plan/Reserved Instance contract management (ProsperOps). They have no native capabilities to automate cloud cost savings.

Digiusher takes a very similar approach as well while providing many features in-built as well. Our Cloud Power Scheduler feature allows you to proactively manage idle cloud resources, shutting them down when not in use, and bringing them back up when needed.

Kubernetes Support

Cloud-native infrastructure relies on Kubernetes to manage shared cluster resources. You need strong insights into cluster usage and savings opportunities to maximize your cluster performance. 

CloudZero can provide visibility into Kubernetes spend across multiple environments, but it can’t give you detailed insights into your Kubernetes clusters outside of AWS. Even on AWS, they require both a cluster agent and AWS CloudWatch in order to gain the telemetry needed to allocate shared costs correctly. They provide some basic recommendations for the underlying cluster infrastructure, but can’t help you optimize your node pools to match your actual usage.

Digiusher gives you deep visibility into your Kubernetes spend across all your multi-cloud environments (including on-premises clusters) with cost perspectives that match the way you do business. Our recommendations are granular to the workload and the node pool configurations to fully optimize your clusters. We can also integrate native spot instance orchestration for cluster instances for AWS.

Network Cost Visibility

CloudZero does not provide any true visibility into data transfer costs in an interactive manner, thereby, making it a very hard for engineers to unlock architecture and design bottlenecks.

With Digiusher, its a cakewalk with built-in dashboards and navigation edited to unlock the data transfer costs.

Enterprise Offering:

Large enterprises, Regulated industries and public sector firms needs to have a secure offering that could run within their own environment under their control. Therefore, Digiusher offers a self-hosted unlimited Enterprise offering in its pricing model making it highly beneficial and apt for such customers. For details visit our pricing page.