Waldur
Open-source cloud and HPC management platform
Ranked #7 in Best cloud cost management software.
Waldur is an open-source platform for managing private clouds, public clouds and HPC centres. It automates OpenStack and Slurm while providing billing, user self-service and support desk capabilities.
At a glance
| Best for | Research Infrastructures |
From Waldur's own website.
Company facts
| Social profiles | GitHub |
Facilities and features
Its website also mentions:
- API
- Integrations
What stands out
The product offers a self-service portal supporting social, national and federated identity providers.
“A self-service portal for the end-users supporting social, national and federated identity providers.”Waldur, own website
Waldur supports multiple cloud services including private clouds, public clouds and batch resources.
“public clouds (DigitalOcean, AWS, Azure) and batch resources (SLURM, Moab).”Waldur, own website
Worth knowing
One-click apps require extra management through Heat or Murano extensions in pure OpenStack deployments.
“Supported through Heat or Murano extensions, which require extra management.”Waldur, own website
How it ranks
Waldur is ranked 7th of 10 in Best cloud cost management software (Lister Score 88.0).
#7 in Best cloud cost management software · Lister Score 88.0
Offers a self-service portal supporting social, national and federated identity providers.
How the score is made up: fit to this ranking's criteria 40; evidence on its own site 20; how complete its published information is 16; buying information on its own site 12.
“Usage-based Accounting Built-in predictive cost estimating and usage-based resource accounting”Waldur, own website
| Rank | Best cloud cost management software | Score |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cast AI | 94.0 |
| 2 | Finout | 94.0 |
| 3 | Harness Cloud Cost Management | 94.0 |
| 4 | Vantage | 94.0 |
| 5 | CloudZero | 90.0 |
| 6 | InfrOS | 90.0 |
| 7 | Waldur | 88.0 |
| 8 | ProsperOps | 84.0 |
| 9 | Namira Software | 82.0 |
| 10 | Apptio Cloudability | 78.0 |
Frequently asked questions
How does Waldur rank on Lister?
Waldur is ranked 7th of 10 in Best cloud cost management software (Lister Score 88.0).