# Control your infrastructure costs - Ankra Use Cases Canonical: https://ankra.ai/use-cases/kubernetes-cost-optimization Understand estimated spend, find unused capacity and price your next infrastructure decision with Ankra. [All use cases](https://ankra.ai/use-cases) Control your infrastructure costs # Make your cloud spend work harder. Understand estimated spend, find unused capacity and price your next infrastructure decision with Ankra. [Start with Ankra](https://platform.ankra.app/auth/signup) [Read the guide](https://docs.ankra.ai/platform/cloud-cost) For engineering leaders, finance partners and infrastructure owners The work to take off your team ## You need to know what the bill is buying. Ankra connects the resources in your clusters to estimated costs by provider, cluster and workload. Inspect usage and unused capacity, then price a different configuration or provider. Estimates include their coverage and assumptions; compare the full operational needs before making a change. With Ankra ### A clearer view of spend. A next move you can review. Understand the spend Find room to improve Price the next move Review and verify A practical path ## How this works with Ankra. 1. 01 ### Understand the spend Follow estimated costs across clusters, accounts and workloads, and inspect which resources are priced. 2. 02 ### Find room to improve Investigate idle capacity and unused resources. Inspect usage evidence before reviewing a recommendation. 3. 03 ### Price the next move Explore configuration changes and provider comparisons with published sources and explicit assumptions. 4. 04 ### Review and verify Consider availability, performance, storage, backups and migration effort. Review the proposed change and verify its effect. [Follow the product guide](https://docs.ankra.ai/platform/cloud-cost) Make the comparison concrete ## Your cluster, priced across providers. Change the cluster shape and inspect the bill. Price sources, their dates and the assumptions are included in the calculator. Worker vCPUs Memory per vCPU CPU Cluster Load balancers 1 Block storage 250 GB Internet egress a month 500 GB The same cluster, a month, at list price €463 on Hetzner to €1,051 on Azure A 2.3x spread for identical vCPUs, memory, storage and traffic. - Worker nodes - Control plane - Load balancers - Block storage - Network 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. ### Hetzner k3s on your own servers, Germany and Finland €463 a month Worker nodes 3 × CCX33 (8 vCPU, 32 GB, dedicated) €415 Control plane 3 × CX33 control plane servers €25 Load balancers 1 × LB11 load balancer €7 Block storage 250 GB of block storage volumes €14 Network 20 TB of traffic included per server, then €1 per TB €0 - Hetzner sells no managed Kubernetes, so a highly available control plane is three servers you pay for and somebody operates. - Arm CAX nodes are cheaper again and are left out here, because moving to them means every image in the cluster has to be multi-architecture. Prices read 2026-09-14 from [Hetzner Cloud pricing](https://www.hetzner.com/cloud/) , [the 15 June 2026 price adjustment](https://docs.hetzner.com/general/infrastructure-and-availability/price-adjustment/) . On-demand list prices checked September 2026, before VAT, discounts, commitments or spot. Always-on month, European regions. USD and EUR convert at the ECB rate of 2026-09-15 (1 EUR = 1.1539 USD). Ankra charges the same per vCPU on every provider, so it never changes the order. The platform behind the workflow ## The pieces, already connected. [### Cost Center Understand estimated spend by cluster and workload, find unused capacity and price configuration changes or another provider.](https://ankra.ai/features#cost) [### Clusters on your infrastructure Import existing Kubernetes or provision a cluster in your cloud account, on private servers or with a managed provider.](https://ankra.ai/features#clusters) [### Ankra AI agents Work with role agents for delivery, reliability, databases, infrastructure and security, or create an agent for your team.](https://ankra.ai/features#agents) What comes next? ## Keep building from here. [Grow & move ### Run open source alternatives Replace suitable managed services from AWS, Azure or Google Cloud with open source services deployed through Ankra and operated with agent help.](https://ankra.ai/use-cases/replace-managed-services) [Grow & move ### Multi-cloud & private infrastructure Use one operational platform across public clouds, managed Kubernetes and private servers.](https://ankra.ai/use-cases/multi-cloud) [Grow & move ### Bring the systems you already run Connect existing clusters and services, give agents useful context and adopt Ankra one practical step at a time.](https://ankra.ai/use-cases/bring-existing-infrastructure) Your next chapter ## You built it. *Let’s get it live.* Give your application a path to production. Give your team a simpler way to run it. [Get your app live](https://platform.ankra.app/auth/signup) [Try a playground](https://ankra.ai/playground) First 30 vCPU of platform usage included. 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