cost-hawk vs cloudcostwise
cost-hawk is no longer listed on any marketplace we read: these are its last known data, as of 2026‑10‑18.
cost-hawk is a plugin bundle for AI coding tools published by barnburner121. No marketplace we read lists it any more. cloudcostwise is an MCP server published by cloudwise-app. Marketplaces we read that list it: 1 (Official MCP Registry). As of our marketplace pass on 2026-10-22. A plugin in this pair is no longer listed on any marketplace we read, so search engines are asked not to index the page.
Where each is published
| Marketplace |  cloudcostwise | |
|---|---|---|
| Community marketplace barnburner121/claude-plugin-marketplace | Removed on 2026-10-18 Version: 1.0.0 Forks (GitHub): 0 Stars (GitHub): 3 Not marked · First seen |
Not listed |
| Official MCP Registry | Not listed | Listed Version: 0.1.13 Downloads/month (PyPI): 420 Downloads/week (PyPI): 597 Forks (GitHub): 1 Stars (GitHub): 1 Not marked · First seen |
Each figure is the marketplace's own and is never added up across marketplaces. A marketplace that publishes no figure shows none: no number is not zero.
The facts side by side
| Fact | cost-hawkno longer listed · | cloudcostwise |
|---|---|---|
| Marketplaces that list it (differs) | 0 | 1 |
| Stars (GitHub) (differs) | 3 | 1 |
| Forks (GitHub) (differs) | 0 | 1 |
| Last release (differs) | Not published | 2026-10-19 |
| Where it runs (differs) | On your machine (@barnburner121/plugin-hub-mcp) | On your machine (cloudcostwise) |
| Transport (differs) | Not stated | stdio |
| Tools it declares | Not published | Not published |
| Environment variables it asks for (differs) | Not published | 1, secrets among them: 0 |
| Parts of the bundle (differs) | 2 | Not a bundle |
| Licence (differs) | MIT | FSL-1.1-ALv2 |
| Repository (differs) | github.com/barnburner121/claude-plugin-marketplace | github.com/cloudwise-app/cloudcostwise |
| Changes in the last 7 days (differs) | 2 | 5 |
| First seen (differs) | 2026-10-14 | 2026-10-11 |
Lines where the two differ have a tinted background and bold values. No value is marked better or worse: a plugin no marketplace lists any more is shown with its last known data, which we do not rank against current figures.
What to use instead of cost-hawk
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levelfour-mcp ai.levelfour/levelfour-mcp
Cloud cost visibility and savings recommendations grounded in your actual AWS, GCP and Azure bill.
What each says it does
cost-hawk
Analyze cloud infrastructure costs, optimize Docker images, tune database performance, and generate cost reports
cloudcostwise
Find AWS waste with your own read-only credentials. Runs locally. Nothing is sent to CloudWise.
How to run each
cost-hawk
No data for an automatic command: what its marketplaces declare does not say unambiguously how to connect it.
cloudcostwise As a local MCP server: PyPI package
claude mcp add --transport stdio cloudcostwise -- uvx cloudcostwise mcpCommands built only from what the marketplaces declare; the full set for every client is on each card.
Tools each declares
Neither one's marketplaces publish a list of tools, so there is nothing to compare.
Settings each asks for
The marketplaces of cost-hawk publish no settings it asks for, so we do not compare settings.
What it can do: cost-hawk · What it can do: cloudcostwise · Compare two other plugins
Data comes from public marketplace files in GitHub repositories of their authors. Data comes from the Official MCP Registry (registry.modelcontextprotocol.io), CC0 1.0. Figures come from our own regular passes over the marketplaces, last read on . We publish no contact details for plugin publishers.