This comparison is quite simple: Only Pump.co is 100% FREE.
No percentage fees. No subscriptions. No credit cards. Only savings.
Cloud Savings
Free forever plan
No fees, no invoices, no credit cards, no "percentage off the top" …It truly is 100% free
No free plan — starts at $30K/yr via AWS Marketplace on a 12-month contract.
Commitment planner
Pump optimizes commitments for your ever-evolving cloud requirements. Faster than AWS, CE, & CUR
Mature RI and Savings Plan planning; claims 90%+ coverage across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Idle instance detection
Quickly identify & shut down idle instances
Idle and waste recommendations included in rightsizing outputs.
Autopilot continuous monitoring
Around the clock analysis of your cloud usage
Recommendations require action — Savings Automation covers RIs, not the full stack.
Rightsizing
Match instance size to real usage patterns
VM and container rightsizing based on CPU, memory, network, and storage utilization.
Automatic budget alerts
Get notified before you overspend via Slack and Email
Budget variance tracking and anomaly detection with real-time alerts.
Modernization recommendations
Suggests newer & cheaper instances to meet the same requirements
Not offered — modernization sits in the separate IBM Turbonomic product.
Kubernetes auto-scaling
Rightsize pods & workloads automatically
Container Insights allocates K8s cost; auto-scaling is Turbonomic's job.
Zero lock-in period
Zero days lock-in period for ultimate flexibility
12-month annual contracts with overage penalties above contracted spend.
Cloud Visibility
100% virtual tagging coverage
Auto-tag every untagged resource across your accounts, even retroactively
Mature tag hygiene reporting plus business mapping and custom dimensions.
Single-lens global overview
One dashboard for every cloud, account, & region — no more toggling consoles
Single-pane-of-glass dashboards across AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI.
Customizable reports
Build the exact view you need with drag-and-drop dimensions, filters, & grouping
Configurable Views per team, application, product, or business unit.
Kubernetes deployment reports
See cost per deployment, namespace, & pod
Container Insights uses an open-source Metrics Agent with QoS-aware splitting.
CFO level financial forecasting
Board-ready spend forecasts you can deliver with confidence
ML-based bottom-up forecasting with confidence intervals.
Top movers alerts
Who's spend on which instances is changing the most?
Spend variance, top-mover reporting, and anomaly detection are included.
Multi-channel notifications
Receive notifications in the way you're most likely to actually see them
Email, Slack, Jira, ServiceNow, and Datadog integrations for notifications.
Annotations & teams tagging
Associate people & notations to cloud instances for greater insights
Business mapping supports custom dimensions and unit-economics denominators.
DeepScan technology
Identify deep inefficiencies like NAT traffic, policy misconfigurations, phantom capacity, & more
Not offered — Cloudability is a FinOps platform, not a config scanner.
Multi-cloud support
Pump supports AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Oracle, & more
Native support for AWS, Azure, GCP, and Oracle Cloud (OCI).
Cloud Security
Overcommitment insurance
Pump actually underwrites your RI's & SP's. You CANNOT lose money by working with Pump!
Not offered — no no-loss or overcommitment insurance guarantee.
Team and product permissions
RBAC to define who is allowed spend what, where
RBAC and SSO available; standard enterprise access controls.
Automatic budget alerts
Get notified before you overspend via Slack and Email
Budget variance tracking and anomaly detection with real-time alerts.
Multi-channel alerts
Receive notifications in the way you're most likely to actually see them
Email, Slack, Jira, ServiceNow, and Datadog integrations for notifications.
3 dedicated support staff
2 dedicated technical account managers, plus a dedicated solutions architect
IBM enterprise ticket support only — no dedicated Slack Connect channel.
Bank, med-tech, fin-tech compliance
Pump.co is SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, GDPR, AWS Well-Architected, Gov Cloud compliant, & more
Not offered — audit-ready cost data is not the same as compliance monitoring.