CloudCheckr from Spot by NetApp is a cloud cost management that is focused on billing / security features needed for MSPs, but it lacks support for Kubernetes, multi-cloud cost visibility, and any of the intelligent automation features found in Digiusher Multi-Cloud Cost Governance and Management Solution.

Features	Digiusher	CloudCheckrfrom Spot by NetApp
Solution
Deployment Option	SaaS, Dedicated Managed Hosting & Self-Hosting	SaaS
Multi-Cloud Support	AWS, Azure, GCP, Alibaba (OCI – Coming Soon!)	AWS, Azure
On-Prem Cost Monitoring	Kubernetes Only	NONE
Pricing Model	Fixed Annual Subscription Fees	Percentage Cloud Spend
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	NO
Multi-Cloud Cost Visualizations	YES	NO
Databricks Cost Visibility	YES	NO
Snowflakes Cost Visibility	Coming Soon!	NO
Import 3rd Party Costs	Coming Soon!	NO
Out-of-the-Box Dashboards	YES	YES
Custom BI Dashboards	YES	Partial
Forecasting	YES	YES
Cloud Inventory	YES	YES
Cost Optimization
Anomaly Detection	YES	Partial (No Kubernetes Support)
Spot Orchestration	YES (through Partner)	NO
Idle Resource Management	YES	NO
Cluster Orchestration on Spot Instances	YES (through Partner)	NO
AWS Compute Recommendations	YES	YES
Azure Compute Recommendations	YES	NO
GCP Compute Recommendations	YES	NO
RI / SP Planning and Recommendations	YES	YES
Governance
Budgets	YES	YES
Alerts	YES	YES
Reporting	YES	YES
Administrative
Multi-Currency Support	YES	YES
Role-based Access Control	YES	YES
Full Audit Trails	YES	NO
Training	YES	YES
Documentation	YES	YES
Support Available	8X5 through Email and Support Website	24X7 Available
MSP-Specific
Single Dashboard to manage multiple clients	YES	YES
Billing Engine	Coming Soon!	YES

Summary: 

CloudCheckr from Spot by NetApp (it’s a mouthful, isn’t it?) is very focused on MSPs, and as a result has great billing / chargeback and security features. If all you want is billing management, CloudCheckr is the way to go. However, that billing and security focus came at the cost of a truly usable cloud cost management tool. CloudCheckr has no support for Kubernetes, which drives a large majority of cloud deployments today. And while they claim support for GCP on the website, one look at their documentation shows that there are no user docs to support that claim. Although CloudCheckr is now part of the Spot by NetApp portfolio, it remains a standalone tool that lacks any automation for cloud cost savings.

If you are looking for a complete solution for cloud cost management that includes true support for multi-cloud and Kubernetes, Digiusher Multi-Cloud Cost Management is the right solution for you. We give you deep insights into Kubernetes costs and cluster management, automated cost savings features, and excellent business intelligence and reporting capabilities. All the features your FinOps / DevOps / Engineering teams need without the manual overhead they don’t. 

Multi-cloud costs:

Look at any state of the cloud report today, and you’ll find that the majority of enterprises leverage more than one cloud provider, with AWS, Azure and Google Cloud Platform accounting for the lion’s share of the market. Supporting all 3 the providers is the minimum bar for cloud cost management, and being able to provide all-in-one views of multi-cloud costs is table stakes for users. Digiusher gives you a complete view of all your multi-cloud costs, in a business perspective that makes sense for your business. 

CloudCheckr does not have the ability to show you AWS and Azure costs in a single dashboard, and in fact, you’ll need to log into separate tools / accounts to see costs for each provider. Their claim to support GCP is not backed up by their documentation, which only provides instructions for AWS and Azure. 

Kubernetes Support:

Modern SaaS infrastructure relies on containers and Kubernetes for easy scalability and flexible deployment models. However, shared cost allocation is a challenge unless you have the tools in place to dig into costs by workload / node / pod / label, etc. Digiusher provides detailed cost analysis for Kubernetes clusters, at a very granular level that can be tailored for your business. We also deliver automated cluster cost management features such as Cluster Orchestrator for EKS that can save our customers up to 90% on cloud costs.  CloudCheckr has no support for Kubernetes at all.

Reporting:

Seeing and understanding your cloud cost trends is important, so that you can see your cloud usage over time. Seems like an easy thing to do, and just about every cloud cost vendor can provide you a report that gives month over month cloud costs…except for CloudCheckr. If you want historical reporting, go with Digiusher.

Network Cost Visibility

CloudCheckr 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.

CloudCheckr offers only SaaS with charging as a % of the expenditure aka. cloud tax.