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Kion
Columbia, Maryland, United States
Plans and prices
Kion FinOps+
$40,000a year
Unlimited users · Unlimited cloud accounts · Support and product upgrades included
Read 30 Sep 2026 · kion.io
On the record
- Cloud providers
- The platform supports AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.kion.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Company history
- Kion says it began in 2018 as cloudtamer.io.kion.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Compliance
- Kion describes continuous compliance features including proactive guardrails, scheduled or on-demand checks, and automatic remediation of misconfigurations.kion.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Cost management
- The FinOps platform provides multi-cloud spend reporting, forecasting, anomaly alerts, cost allocation, and showback and chargeback support.kion.io · read 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.kion.io · read 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.kion.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Governance
- Kion lets teams define financial and operational policies once and enforce them across cloud accounts and environments.kion.io · read 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.kion.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Integrations
- Listed integrations include ServiceNow, Jira, Tenable.sc, Terraform Cloud, Splunk, Slack, AWS Security Hub, and AWS Control Tower.kion.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Intended customers
- Kion says it serves commercial enterprises, government agencies, and higher-education institutions, including regulated organizations.kion.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- Security compliance
- Kion’s Trust Center lists SOC 2 Type 2 and CSA STAR Level 1 among its compliance items.trust.kion.io · read 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.kion.io · read 30 Sep 2026
- What it does
- Kion is a FinOps+ platform for visibility, optimization, and governance of cloud, AI, SaaS, and on-premises spending.kion.io · read 30 Sep 2026
