Tool overview
Expanse is listed under Data Analytics AI tools.
What is Expanse?
Expanse provides monitoring, analytics, cost attribution, and operational intelligence for HPC and GPU clusters. It helps infrastructure teams understand utilization, jobs, users, projects, and cluster economics.
Best for
HPC and GPU cluster intelligence and cost analytics
Who is it for?
Decision note
Rechecked the homepage, feature pages, documentation, free waste scanner, get-started flow, company page, and current Y Combinator profile. Resource and failure prediction, diagnostics, FinOps, SLURM/Kubernetes/SkyPilot support, CLI and console access, customer-infrastructure deployment, OIDC SSO, free scans/tracking, a two-week audit, 2025 founding, and founders@expanse.sh were confirmed. Public enterprise prices, a public product API, and an affiliate program were not confirmed.
Key features
Predicts runtime, memory, CPU, GPU needs, and failure risk before submission
Diagnoses failed jobs with evidence-grounded remediation guidance
Tracks CPU, memory, GPU utilization, waste, and cost attribution
Runs across SLURM, Kubernetes, SkyPilot, and multi-cluster environments
Provides a unified CLI, console, scheduling, governance, and team controls
Keeps workload telemetry and intelligence processing inside customer infrastructure
Use cases
Track GPU and HPC utilization
Allocate infrastructure costs to teams and projects
Identify underused compute resources
Analyze job and queue behavior
Support capacity planning and chargeback
Pros
- Purpose-built for expensive technical infrastructure
- Provides granular cost attribution
- Supports operational and financial decisions
- Centralizes multi-cluster visibility
Limitations
Deployment requires cluster-level data access. Confirm current product scope, security, retention, and commercial terms before deployment.
Pricing details
Billing options
Custom subscription
Pricing note
Expanse offers a free local waste scan, free continuous waste tracking, and a no-commitment two-week cluster audit. Paid pilots and enterprise deployments are priced through the founders. Confirm production feature scope, cluster/user limits, support, and licensing after the free assessment.
Supported languages
- English
Integrations
SLURM
Kubernetes
SkyPilot
OIDC
Okta
Microsoft Entra
Google Workspace
HPC clusters
GPU clusters
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