Comparison

Headlamp vs Rafay

No leader: the top candidate Headlamp has only 0.21 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

Machine formatsJSONMarkdownGraphQLor send Accept: application/json
Headlamp59
Rafay53
Score
Vioscale score
Headlamp59 / 100low · 21%updating
Rafay53 / 100low · 42%updating
Pricing
Free tier
Headlamp
Rafay
Model
Price level
Headlampfree
Rafayunknown
Transparent
Headlamp
Rafay
Integrations
Count
Headlamp
Rafay14
Security
Gdpr
Headlamp
Rafay
Hipaa
Headlamp
Rafay
Pci
Headlamp
Rafay
Scorecard
Headlamp7.9
Rafay
Adoption
Dependent repos
Headlamp0
Rafay
Github stars
Headlamp7,152
Rafay
Activity
Commits last 30d
Headlamp100
Rafay
Release
Cadence days
Headlamp5
Rafay
History
Headlamp20 items
Rafay
License
Spdx
HeadlampApache-2.0
Rafay
Language
Primary
HeadlampTypeScript
Rafay
Market

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for kubernetes management. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Capabilities
Deployment model
Headlamp-
RafaySaas
Eks gke aks lifecycle
Headlamp-
Rafay
Bare metal vsphere provisioning
Headlamp-
Rafay
Centralized SSO RBAC
Headlamp-
Rafay
Multi cluster config sync
Headlamp-
Rafay
Bundled observability stack
Headlamp-
Rafay
Bundled service mesh
Headlamp-
Rafay
Edge iot scale capable
Headlamp-
Rafay
Cost management module
Headlamp-
Rafay
CLI shell access
Headlamp-
Rafay
SOC2 type ii
Headlamp-
Rafay
ISO 27001
Headlamp-
Rafay
Pricing model
Headlamp-
RafayPer node core

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Headlamp

A Kubernetes management dashboard combining core resource viewing and administration features with extensibility for customization.

Independently observed

Rafay

A comprehensive platform that enables organizations to expose GPU infrastructure and Kubernetes workloads as managed, self-service cloud services with built-in multi-tenant governance, automation, and visibility across hybrid and air-gapped environments.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Headlamp

Open sourceFree tier

Open source, free to use

as of verify ↗

Rafay

Subscription

Platform fee plus per-node/per-GPU usage fee with volume discounts. Enterprise Support (24x7x365) available at 20% of subscription cost.

as of verify ↗

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Headlamp
Rafay
Windows
Headlamp
Rafay
Linux
Headlamp
Rafay
CLI
Headlamp
Rafay
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Headlamp
Rafay
Self-hosted
Headlamp
Rafay
On-premise
Headlamp
Rafay
Hybrid
Headlamp
Rafay
Air-gapped
Headlamp
Rafay

Integrations

What each product connects to. Counts come from the vendor's own integration directory where one exists.

Headlamp

Not documented yet.

Rafay

20 total
  • Slack
  • Microsoft Teams
  • PagerDuty
  • Jira
  • ServiceNow
  • Datadog
  • Elasticsearch
  • Loki
  • Terraform
  • Crossplane
  • GitHub Actions
  • AWS EKS
  • Microsoft Azure AKS
  • Google Cloud GKE
  • Oracle Cloud OKE
  • Argo CD
  • AWS
  • Azure
  • Google Cloud
  • Oracle Cloud
Independently observed

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.