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Srenix vs. Komodor
Komodor watches your cluster from a hosted control plane and suggests runbooks. Srenix runs entirely inside your cluster, proposes specific fixes, and (with your one-click approval) actually executes them. Different category.
| Dimension | Srenix | Komodor |
|---|---|---|
| Where it runs | In your cluster — operator + CronJob + Deployment | Komodor SaaS with a per-cluster agent; control plane is hosted |
| Closed-loop remediation | Yes — 5 policy-bounded fixers + AI-tier proposals run on operator approval | Drift detection + runbook suggestions; remediation is a human kubectl |
| LLM provider | Bring-your-own (OpenAI-compatible endpoint — your in-cluster vLLM, Azure OpenAI, your gateway) | Vendor-managed LLM; cluster data leaves your perimeter for inference |
| Pricing model | Flat per-cluster (Open Core free / AI SRE Team / Enterprise) | Per-node tiered SaaS; "contact sales" beyond starter |
| Air-gap / sovereign | Yes — OSS engine and Srenix Enterprise both run entirely in-cluster | No — control plane is hosted by Komodor |
| Open source | Apache-2.0 engine; commercial AI SRE tier | Proprietary |
The structural difference.
Komodor is an excellent K8s observability + investigation platform. Their agent runs in your cluster, but the control plane, the LLM, and the AI-suggestion logic all live in their SaaS. Your cluster posture, events, and (with optional features) Kubernetes-object diffs flow outbound for analysis. That's the model.
Srenix's model is different in two ways. First, the agent and the LLM both run inside your perimeter — bring-your-own OpenAI-compatible endpoint (your in-cluster vLLM, Azure OpenAI deployment, regional gateway). Nothing leaves the cluster. Second, the agent mutates on operator approval — signed click-to-fix URL, JWT-bounded action kinds, hash-chained audit. Komodor's design choice means an SRE still has to copy the suggested kubectl and run it; Srenix closes the loop.
Pick Komodor if you want a polished hosted UI with cross-cluster observability and you're comfortable sending cluster state to a SaaS. Pick Srenix if you need air-gap / sovereign / k3s-edge, want to keep your LLM in-house, and want the agent to actually remediate, not just suggest.