Radar

Web · Windows · Mac · Linux · Self-hosted · API · paid plans from $149/mo

Freedom report

Three barsScore 6.7

Free tierA free tier is on its own pricing page
Open codeNo open-source code on record
Runs widely4 of 6 device platforms
DocumentedPlans, terms and facts published

Radar is ranked #6 of 49 in Kubernetes monitoring on Freedom251. It runs on API, Linux, macOS, Self-hosted, Web, Windows. There is a free plan. A free trial is offered. Paid plans start at $149/mo.

Radar plans and pricing

All plans

Radar OSS Free Free forever Unlimited clusters & nodes · Full topology and resource views · Helm, image filesystem, audit, MCP/AI · Community GitHub + Discord support radarhq.io · 3 Oct 2026

Cloud Free Free $0 forever Up to 3 clusters · Unlimited users · 100 hosted investigations/month · 24-hour timeline retention radarhq.io · 3 Oct 2026

Team $149/mo $149 per cluster / month · starting price Unlimited clusters and users · 100 investigations per cluster/month, then $1 each if enabled · 3-day timeline · 30-day audit retention radarhq.io · 3 Oct 2026

Enterprise $299/mo $299 per cluster / month Unlimited clusters and users · SAML/OIDC SSO + SCIM 2.0 · 200 investigations per cluster/month, then $1 each if enabled · 30-day timeline · 1-year audit retention radarhq.io · 3 Oct 2026

Custom Not published Let's talk · annual contract Volume pricing · Custom IdP and data residency · Custom retention · Air-gapped deployment · 99.9% uptime SLA radarhq.io · 3 Oct 2026

Compared on Kubernetes monitoring

Free plan: Yes
Paid from: $149/mo
Kubernetes logs: No
Distributed tracing: No
Alerting channels: Slack, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Microsoft Teams, webhooks
Managed Kubernetes support: Yes
Data retention: 3 days

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The record

Product: Radar is an open-source Kubernetes interface for people and AI agents, with topology, events, Helm, GitOps, image internals, and audits.
Deployment: Radar runs as a single binary locally with a kubeconfig or in-cluster through Helm.
Desktop apps: The desktop app is available for macOS, Linux, and Windows.
Topology: The topology view displays Deployments, Services, and Ingresses as a live graph with traffic, TLS health, and cross-namespace dependencies.
AI investigations: Radar Cloud offers AI root-cause investigations with evidence, and its pricing page includes 100 investigations per month on Cloud Free.
Integrations: Built-in integrations include Argo, Flux, Cilium, Istio, Karpenter, KEDA, Crossplane, cert-manager, OpenCost, Kubecost, Prometheus, Trivy, and Velero, with no plugins required.
Notifications: Radar Cloud alerts can be sent to Slack or any webhook, with per-cluster routing.
Security: The pricing page states SOC 2 Type 2 applies to every Cloud plan; SAML/OIDC SSO and SCIM 2.0 are included on Enterprise and Custom.
Data handling: Radar OSS sends no cluster data out and makes one anonymous, blockable version check; the pricing page says Cloud streams viewed resources, events, and logs through its control plane without storing them.
Retention limits: Cloud event timeline retention is 24 hours on Free, 3 days on Team, 30 days on Enterprise, and custom on Custom; audit log retention is 30 days on Team and one year on Enterprise.
Support: Radar OSS support is through GitHub and Discord; Enterprise includes priority support, while Custom lists a dedicated CSM and phone support.
Intended users: Radar describes itself as centralized Kubernetes visibility for platform engineering teams.
Maker: Radar is the open-source Kubernetes UI from the platform team at Skyhook.
Price from: $149/mo

Where it ranks on Freedom251

Best Kubernetes Monitoring in 2026#6 of 49

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Sources

radarhq.io· checked 3 Oct 2026
radarhq.io/docs/install· checked 3 Oct 2026
radarhq.io/pricing· checked 3 Oct 2026
radarhq.io/docs/features/integrations· checked 3 Oct 2026
radarhq.io/about· checked 3 Oct 2026