# Companies using Kubecost

432 companies in our data use Kubecost, and 248 of them name it in job posts they wrote. From October 2025 to August 2026, 230 job posts named it. FinOps is the role that names it most often.

Data as of November 9, 2026. Source: Sumble.

## Which companies name Kubecost in the most job posts?

IBM and Cortex Reply DE have the most job posts naming Kubecost, with 38 and 21. Mastercard has named it in job posts the longest of the five companies in the table, since December 2024.

| Company | Job posts | Recent job post |
|---|---:|---|
| [IBM](https://sumble.com/orgs/ibm) | 38 | "This pillar includes solutions such as Apptio, Cloudability, Kubecost, Concert, Turbonomic, Instana and Cloud Pak for AIOps." (Automation Customer Success Engineer - IT Automation & FinOps, May 22, 2026) |
| [Cortex Reply DE](https://sumble.com/orgs/cortexreply-de) | 21 | "Familiarity with cloud cost management tools (e.g., Cloudability, infracost, kubecost) is a plus." (FinOps Data Analyst & Consultant (m/w/d), May 22, 2026) |
| [PAUL Tech AG](https://sumble.com/orgs/paulgmbh) | 19 | "…AWS Cost Explorer, CloudHealth, Kubecost" (Lead Cloud Engineer (m/w/d), Dec 13, 2025) |
| [Ciklum](https://sumble.com/orgs/ciklum) | 15 | "FinOps tooling (Kubecost, CloudHealth) and reserved capacity planning experience" (Senior Platform Engineer, Oct 22, 2026) |
| [Mastercard](https://sumble.com/orgs/mastercard) | 14 | "Expertise in developing dashboards and visualizations using tools like AWS Quicksight, Tableau, Power BI, or cloud-native solutions (e.g Kubecost/Opencost)" (Senior Platform Engineer - FinOps, May 5, 2026) |

## Is hiring for Kubecost growing?

From March to May 2026, 0.15 in every 10,000 job posts named Kubecost; from June to August, 0.12 in every 10,000 job posts. One company accounts for most of that change.

| Month | Job posts naming it | All job posts | Per 10,000 job posts |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| Oct 2025 | 7 | 1,413,673 | 0.05 |
| Nov 2025 | 25 | 1,822,119 | 0.14 |
| Dec 2025 | 5 | 1,236,103 | 0.04 |
| Jan 2026 | 21 | 1,828,002 | 0.11 |
| Feb 2026 | 26 | 1,856,647 | 0.14 |
| Mar 2026 | 24 | 1,850,711 | 0.13 |
| Apr 2026 | 26 | 1,728,886 | 0.15 |
| May 2026 | 29 | 1,821,509 | 0.16 |
| Jun 2026 | 17 | 1,909,496 | 0.09 |
| Jul 2026 | 22 | 1,815,180 | 0.12 |
| Aug 2026 | 28 | 1,835,698 | 0.15 |

## How many companies named Kubecost in a job post for the first time in recent months?

Kubecost showed up in job posts at 36 companies for the first time from June to August 2026, and 24 in the three months before. Of the 248 companies whose job posts name it, 15% first named it from June to August.

| Period | Companies naming it in a job post for the first time |
|---|---:|
| March to May 2026 | 24 |
| June to August 2026 | 36 |
| October 2025 to August 2026 | 95 |

Companies whose first job post naming it appeared in that period. Recruiters, staffing firms and job boards are left out.

## How do we know which companies use Kubecost?

248 of the 432 companies name Kubecost in their own job posts. The other 184 show up because employees list it on their profiles. 17 show up in both job posts and employees' profiles.

| How we know | Companies | Share |
|---|---:|---:|
| Job posts name Kubecost | 248 | 57% |
| Employees' profiles list Kubecost | 184 | 43% |

## What size are the companies that use Kubecost?

37% of Kubecost users are companies with 50 to 999 employees, the largest size group. The second-largest group is companies with more than 5,000 employees, at 29%.

| Size | Share | Typical tech page |
|---|---:|---:|
| Under 50 employees | 16% | 22% |
| 50 to 999 | 37% | 38% |
| 1,000 to 5,000 | 17% | 17% |
| Over 5,000 | 29% | 23% |

## Where are Kubecost companies based?

Brazil is 2.9 times as common among Kubecost companies as on the typical tech page, at 8.2%. The United States leads overall with 47%. India is second, at 8.7%.

| Country | Companies | Share | Typical tech page |
|---|---:|---:|---:|
| United States | 195 | 47% | 43% |
| India | 36 | 8.7% | 6.9% |
| Brazil | 34 | 8.2% | 2.8% |
| France | 19 | 4.6% | 4.6% |
| Canada | 17 | 4.1% | 3.6% |
| Germany | 15 | 3.6% | 4.4% |

## Which teams work with Kubecost?

DevOps teams are by far the most common home for Kubecost, at 7 companies.

| Team | Companies |
|---|---:|
| DevOps | 7 |
| FinOps practice | 3 |
| Platform engineering | 3 |
| World class container platform | 3 |
| Engineering | 2 |
| Enterprise security | 2 |

## Which roles mention Kubecost most?

Kubecost shows up across many roles. The top one, FinOps, has 35% of the job posts. FinOps posts naming it numbered 25 from March to May 2026 and 17 from June to August.

| Role | Share | Oct 2025 to Aug 2026 | Mar to May 2026 | Jun to Aug 2026 |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| FinOps | 35% | 80 | 25 | 17 |
| DevOps Engineer | 10% | 23 | 7 | 11 |
| Site Reliability Engineer | 7.8% | 18 | 6 | 5 |
| Cloud Engineer | 6.1% | 14 | 3 | 2 |
| Software Engineer | 3.5% | 8 | 3 | 3 |
| Platform Engineer | 3% | 7 | 1 | 2 |

## Which companies started naming Kubecost in job posts recently?

From April to August 2026, 47 companies with 50 or more employees posted their first job naming Kubecost: 21 commercial, 10 mid-market and 16 enterprise. Accenture Brasil has the most job posts of the new enterprise companies, 5 from April to August.

| Group | Company | Job posts, April to August 2026 |
|---|---|---:|
| Commercial | [Motional](https://sumble.com/orgs/motional) | 2 |
| Commercial | [unosquare](https://sumble.com/orgs/unosquare) | 2 |
| Commercial | [Circles](https://sumble.com/orgs/circles1) | 2 |
| Commercial | [OverIT - Field Service Management](https://sumble.com/orgs/overit-field-service-management) | 2 |
| Commercial | [LSports](https://sumble.com/orgs/lsports-data) | 2 |
| Mid-market | [OPSWAT](https://sumble.com/orgs/opswat) | 2 |
| Mid-market | [Wissen Technology](https://sumble.com/orgs/wissen-technology-private-limited) | 1 |
| Mid-market | [Presidio](https://sumble.com/orgs/presidio-2) | 1 |
| Mid-market | [Affirm](https://sumble.com/orgs/affirm) | 1 |
| Mid-market | [Anaplan](https://sumble.com/orgs/anaplan) | 1 |
| Enterprise | [Accenture Brasil](https://sumble.com/orgs/accenturebrasil) | 5 |
| Enterprise | [Accenture](https://sumble.com/orgs/accenture) | 3 |
| Enterprise | [Deloitte](https://sumble.com/orgs/deloitte) | 3 |
| Enterprise | [CGI](https://sumble.com/orgs/cgi) | 3 |
| Enterprise | [Jack Henry](https://sumble.com/orgs/jack-henry-&-associates) | 3 |

Companies that named Kubecost in a job post for the first time between April and August 2026, ranked by their job posts in those months. AI-native companies get a group of their own, whatever their size. Recruiters and job boards are left out.

## What else do Kubecost companies use?

Kubecost companies are 113 times as likely as similar companies to use CloudHealth: 32% of them, against 0.28%. Next is Cloudability: 24% of these companies use it, against 0.25% of similar ones.

| Tool | Companies | Also name it | Typical | Times as common |
|---|---:|---:|---:|---:|
| CloudHealth | 41 | 32% | 0.28% | 113 times |
| Cloudability | 31 | 24% | 0.25% | 96 times |
| AWS Cost Explorer | 31 | 24% | 0.34% | 70 times |
| Fluentbit | 13 | 10% | 0.19% | 54 times |
| Cilium | 15 | 12% | 0.26% | 44 times |
| Apptio | 16 | 12% | 0.31% | 40 times |
| Linkerd | 27 | 21% | 0.56% | 37 times |
| Azure Cost Management | 13 | 10% | 0.3% | 33 times |

Shares are out of the 130 companies whose job posts name Kubecost, not counting firms whose job posts name almost every technology.

## Which project themes come up in Kubecost job posts?

251 job posts naming Kubecost describe Cloud Cost Optimization work. Cloud Migration also appears, in 16 job posts.

| Project theme | Job posts |
|---|---:|
| Cloud Cost Optimization | 251 |
| Digital Transformation | 62 |
| Data Infrastructure Migration | 18 |
| Cloud Migration | 16 |

- "Experience with tools such as CloudHealth or KubeCost to manage and optimize cloud spend" (Galent, Application Release Engineer, Nov 4, 2026)

## About this data

Sumble built this page. Sumble gives sales, marketing and other GTM teams technographics and hiring signals for the companies they sell to: the technologies each company uses, which teams are hiring and for what, and who reports to whom. That helps a team know who to contact, why now, and what to say.

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