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
Not offered; there is no hosted product or plan, only an Apache 2.0 open-source engine you install and run yourself.
Commitment planner
Pump optimizes commitments for your ever-evolving cloud requirements. Faster than AWS, CE, & CUR
Not offered; no built-in workflow purchases, exchanges, or resells Reserved Instances or Savings Plans.
Idle instance detection
Quickly identify & shut down idle instances
Garbage-collects idle resources via off-hours schedules and utilization-based policies you write and schedule yourself.
Autopilot continuous monitoring
Around the clock analysis of your cloud usage
Not offered; policies run on a schedule or event trigger you configure, with no built-in anomaly-detection engine.
Rightsizing
Match instance size to real usage patterns
Not offered; no rightsizing recommendation engine, only manual policies you author against metrics you choose.
Automatic budget alerts
Get notified before you overspend via Slack and Email
Not offered; no native budget-alert or spend-threshold feature, only custom policies acting on tags or usage you define.
Modernization recommendations
Suggests newer & cheaper instances to meet the same requirements
Not offered; no Graviton/ARM migration guidance is documented in the project or its policy examples.
Kubernetes auto-scaling
Rightsize pods & workloads automatically
Not offered; Kubernetes support (beta) is a policy/admission-controller engine, not autoscaling or HPA tuning.
Zero lock-in period
Zero days lock-in period for ultimate flexibility
No signup exists; it's pip/Docker-installed and self-hosted, requiring engineering setup instead of a sales call.
Cloud Visibility
100% virtual tagging coverage
Auto-tag every untagged resource across your accounts, even retroactively
Tag and untag actions are core to the DSL, letting policies apply custom labels beyond native cloud tags.
Single-lens global overview
One dashboard for every cloud, account, & region — no more toggling consoles
Not offered; no dashboard exists, so no unified multi-cloud billing view is provided out of the box.
Customizable reports
Build the exact view you need with drag-and-drop dimensions, filters, & grouping
Not offered; no cost-per-X or unit-economics reporting layer, only raw policy match output in logs or S3.
Kubernetes deployment reports
See cost per deployment, namespace, & pod
Not offered; Kubernetes provider (beta) targets pods for label/delete actions, not cost-per-pod reporting.
CFO level financial forecasting
Board-ready spend forecasts you can deliver with confidence
Not offered; no budget dashboard or forecasting feature is documented for the open-source engine.
Top movers alerts
Whose spend on which instances is changing the most?
Not offered; no anomaly-detection capability ships with the project, visibility-only or otherwise.
Multi-channel notifications
Receive notifications in the way you're most likely to actually see them
This is the project's core function: YAML policies filter resources and apply actions like tag, stop, or delete.
Annotations & teams tagging
Associate people & notations to cloud instances for greater insights
Not offered; no built-in shared-cost allocation reporting, only whatever tags a policy author chooses to apply.
DeepScan technology
Identify deep inefficiencies like NAT traffic, policy misconfigurations, phantom capacity, & more
Not offered; no dollar-impact scoring for waste, only resource lists matched by user-authored filters.
Multi-cloud support
Pump supports AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Oracle, & more
Supports AWS, Azure, and GCP as core providers, with Kubernetes, Tencent Cloud, and OpenStack in beta per project docs.
Cloud Security
Overcommitment insurance
Pump actually underwrites your RI's & SP's. You CANNOT lose money by working with Pump!
Not offered; no savings guarantee or insurance product exists for a free, self-hosted policy engine.
Team and product permissions
RBAC to define who is allowed spend what, where
Not offered; access control depends entirely on the cloud provider's own IAM, with no Custodian-native RBAC layer.
Automatic budget alerts
Get notified before you overspend via Slack and Email
Not offered; no native budget-alert or spend-threshold feature, only custom policies acting on tags or usage you define.
Multi-channel alerts
Receive notifications in the way you're most likely to actually see them
This is the project's core function: YAML policies filter resources and apply actions like tag, stop, or delete.
3 dedicated support staff
2 dedicated technical account managers, plus a dedicated solutions architect
Not offered; there is no app marketplace, only community-contributed example policies on GitHub.
Bank, med-tech, fin-tech compliance
Pump.co is SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, GDPR, AWS Well-Architected, Gov Cloud compliant, & more
Not offered as a dedicated feature; policy runs write logs/output to local disk or S3, with no built-in audit-trail UI.
