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. CMP needs a sales demo; StormForge has a 30-day trial, but neither has a free-forever tier.
Commitment planner
Pump optimizes commitments for your ever-evolving cloud requirements. Faster than AWS, CE, & CUR
Commitment Management models RI/Savings Plan purchases, requiring manual approval before execution.
Idle instance detection
Quickly identify & shut down idle instances
Policy Configurations flag and shut down idle VMs on a schedule, requiring rules set per tag or service.
Autopilot continuous monitoring
Around the clock analysis of your cloud usage
Cloud Native Actions auto-remediate cost anomalies, requiring automation policies enabled in advance.
Rightsizing
Match instance size to real usage patterns
Rightsizing sets CPU/memory thresholds with instance-class limits, needing scheduled or manual execution.
Automatic budget alerts
Get notified before you overspend via Slack and Email
Budget alerts fire at set thresholds; automated non-prod shutdown is documented but requires setup.
Modernization recommendations
Suggests newer & cheaper instances to meet the same requirements
Not documented. No Graviton or ARM migration recommendation appears in CloudBolt's product materials.
Kubernetes auto-scaling
Rightsize pods & workloads automatically
StormForge continuously rightsizes container CPU/memory and is described as HPA-aware, needing an agent.
Zero lock-in period
Zero days lock-in period for ultimate flexibility
Not offered for the CMP, which requires a demo request; only StormForge has a self-serve trial path.
Cloud Visibility
100% virtual tagging coverage
Auto-tag every untagged resource across your accounts, even retroactively
Virtual tags support allocation and t-shirt sizing, built from existing tagging policies, not free-form.
Single-lens global overview
One dashboard for every cloud, account, & region — no more toggling consoles
Cost breakdown spans AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI accounts, requiring each billing target connected first.
Customizable reports
Build the exact view you need with drag-and-drop dimensions, filters, & grouping
Not documented. No dedicated unit-economics or cost-per-customer report is described beyond tag rollups.
Kubernetes deployment reports
See cost per deployment, namespace, & pod
Pod/namespace/container cost allocation is in private preview as of late 2025, not generally available.
CFO level financial forecasting
Board-ready spend forecasts you can deliver with confidence
Group- and resource-level budgets include cost modeling, requiring financial data sources to be linked.
Top movers alerts
Whose spend on which instances is changing the most?
Anomaly flags surface unexpected spend outside CI/CD contexts, viewable without enabling auto-remediation.
Multi-channel notifications
Receive notifications in the way you're most likely to actually see them
Not documented as Cloud Custodian-style policy code; enforcement runs through approval gates and drift checks.
Annotations & teams tagging
Associate people & notations to cloud instances for greater insights
Percentage- and rule-based tags split shared costs across teams, requiring manual setup per scheme.
DeepScan technology
Identify deep inefficiencies like NAT traffic, policy misconfigurations, phantom capacity, & more
Not documented as a standalone dollar-impact score; savings figures appear per recommendation only.
Multi-cloud support
Pump supports AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Oracle, & more
Covers AWS, Azure, GCP and OCI plus VMware and Nutanix hypervisors through 200+ integrations.
Cloud Security
Overcommitment insurance
Pump actually underwrites your RI's & SP's. You CANNOT lose money by working with Pump!
Not offered. No commitment-insurance or savings-guarantee program is documented for CloudBolt.
Team and product permissions
RBAC to define who is allowed spend what, where
RBAC with custom roles and tenants restricts data visibility, requiring setup per user group.
Automatic budget alerts
Get notified before you overspend via Slack and Email
Budget alerts fire at set thresholds; automated non-prod shutdown is documented but requires setup.
Multi-channel alerts
Receive notifications in the way you're most likely to actually see them
Not documented as Cloud Custodian-style policy code; enforcement runs through approval gates and drift checks.
3 dedicated support staff
2 dedicated technical account managers, plus a dedicated solutions architect
150+ security integrations and 200+ overall integrations span ITSM, IaC, and cloud tools.
Bank, med-tech, fin-tech compliance
Pump.co is SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, GDPR, AWS Well-Architected, Gov Cloud compliant, & more
Audit trail logs approvals, policy changes and provisioning actions across the platform.
