Kion
Kion is a FinOps+ platform for visibility, optimization, and governance of cloud, AI, SaaS, and on-premises spending.
What Kion is
Kion is a FinOps+ platform for visibility, optimization, and governance of cloud, AI, SaaS, and on-premises spending. It provides multi-cloud cost reporting, forecasts, anomaly alerts, cost allocation, and showback and chargeback support. Teams can define financial and operational policies and apply them across cloud accounts and environments. Continuous compliance tools include guardrails, scheduled or on-demand checks, and automatic remediation of misconfigurations. Kion supports AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure, along with integrations including ServiceNow, Jira, Terraform Cloud, Splunk, and Slack. It is self-hosted in a customer cloud account, rather than offered as SaaS, and deployments use AWS CloudFormation or Azure Resource Manager templates.
Good
- Reports and forecasts multi-cloud spending
- Supports AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and OCI
- Includes policy governance and scheduled automation
- Unlimited users and cloud accounts
Watch out
- No free plan
- Self-hosted rather than SaaS
- Separate cloud-provider running costs apply
Who it suits
Kion is aimed at commercial enterprises, government agencies, and higher-education institutions, including regulated organizations. It suits teams managing costs and policies across multiple cloud providers.
Verdict
Kion combines multi-cloud cost management with policy governance and compliance controls in a self-hosted deployment. Account for both the annual license and separate cloud-provider operating costs.
Plans and prices
From Kion's own pricing page, checked 30 Sep 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Kion FinOps+ | $40,000 a year | Unlimited users · Unlimited cloud accounts · Support and product upgrades included · Annual subscription; starting at $40,000 per year, with pricing based on managed cloud footprint. |
The facts
Each one read from Kion's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Cloud providers
- The platform supports AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Compliance
- Kion describes continuous compliance features including proactive guardrails, scheduled or on-demand checks, and automatic remediation of misconfigurations.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Deployment
- Kion is self-hosted in a customer cloud account and is not a SaaS offering; the FAQ describes deployments using AWS CloudFormation or Azure Resource Manager templates.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Governance
- Kion lets teams define financial and operational policies once and enforce them across cloud accounts and environments.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Identity and MFA
- Kion supports Active Directory and SAML 2.0 identity providers, and its internal directory can use Google Authenticator TOTP or Yubico U2F for MFA.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Integrations
- Listed integrations include ServiceNow, Jira, Tenable.sc, Terraform Cloud, Splunk, Slack, AWS Security Hub, and AWS Control Tower.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Intended customers
- Kion says it serves commercial enterprises, government agencies, and higher-education institutions, including regulated organizations.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Security compliance
- Kion’s Trust Center lists SOC 2 Type 2 and CSA STAR Level 1 among its compliance items.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Support
- The FAQ says the license term includes basic email support with a two-business-day response time, software updates, and access to the Kion Success Center and community forums.checked 30 Sep 2026
- What it does
- Kion is a FinOps+ platform for visibility, optimization, and governance of cloud, AI, SaaS, and on-premises spending.checked 30 Sep 2026
The company
- Company history
- Kion says it began in 2018 as cloudtamer.io.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Founded
- 2018checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Columbia, Maryland, United Stateschecked 28 Sep 2026
Money
- Cost management
- The FinOps platform provides multi-cloud spend reporting, forecasting, anomaly alerts, cost allocation, and showback and chargeback support.checked 30 Sep 2026
- Extra hosting cost
- Kion says its cloud-provider running costs vary by deployment and start as low as $300 per month on average; this is separate from the license price.checked 30 Sep 2026
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