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; no public free tier, quote-based enterprise contracts only.
Commitment planner
Pump optimizes commitments for your ever-evolving cloud requirements. Faster than AWS, CE, & CUR
Provides RI/Savings Plan purchase recommendations and modeling tools.
Idle instance detection
Quickly identify & shut down idle instances
Flags underutilized and idle resources through rightsizing reports.
Autopilot continuous monitoring
Around the clock analysis of your cloud usage
Not offered; Savings Automator auto-exchanges AWS Convertible RIs only, new purchases require approval.
Rightsizing
Match instance size to real usage patterns
Compares provisioned capacity to utilization and recommends downsizing or termination.
Automatic budget alerts
Get notified before you overspend via Slack and Email
Sends notifications when spend approaches or exceeds budget thresholds.
Modernization recommendations
Suggests newer & cheaper instances to meet the same requirements
Not documented; rightsizing covers instance sizing, not architecture modernization.
Kubernetes auto-scaling
Rightsize pods & workloads automatically
Not offered; provides K8s cost and rightsizing reports without a scaling engine.
Zero lock-in period
Zero days lock-in period for ultimate flexibility
Not offered; standard contracts run 12, 24, or 36 months with overage charges.
Cloud Visibility
100% virtual tagging coverage
Auto-tag every untagged resource across your accounts, even retroactively
Perspectives use tags and account metadata to build cost-allocation groups.
Single-lens global overview
One dashboard for every cloud, account, & region — no more toggling consoles
Provides dashboards and Pulse Reports summarizing spend across connected clouds.
Customizable reports
Build the exact view you need with drag-and-drop dimensions, filters, & grouping
Flex Reports engine builds custom cost, usage, and asset reports via UI or GraphQL API.
Kubernetes deployment reports
See cost per deployment, namespace, & pod
Provides Kubernetes cost history and rightsizing reports by namespace and cluster.
CFO level financial forecasting
Board-ready spend forecasts you can deliver with confidence
Supports spend forecasting and budget tracking within cost reports.
Top movers alerts
Whose spend on which instances is changing the most?
Surfaces cost anomalies and variance through reporting dashboards.
Multi-channel notifications
Receive notifications in the way you're most likely to actually see them
Supports email, Slack, Jira Cloud, and webhook notification routing.
Annotations & teams tagging
Associate people & notations to cloud instances for greater insights
Supports custom tagging, cost reallocation rules, and Perspective groupings.
DeepScan technology
Identify deep inefficiencies like NAT traffic, policy misconfigurations, phantom capacity, & more
Not offered; CloudHealth has no equivalent named waste-detection scanner.
Multi-cloud support
Pump supports AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Oracle, & more
Supports AWS, Azure, GCP, and Alibaba Cloud, plus VMware private cloud via Aria Operations.
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 insurance guarantee on any CloudHealth module.
Team and product permissions
RBAC to define who is allowed spend what, where
Supports role-based authorizer/approver chains for policy actions.
Automatic budget alerts
Get notified before you overspend via Slack and Email
Sends notifications when spend approaches or exceeds budget thresholds.
Multi-channel alerts
Receive notifications in the way you're most likely to actually see them
Supports email, Slack, Jira Cloud, and webhook notification routing.
3 dedicated support staff
2 dedicated technical account managers, plus a dedicated solutions architect
Not offered directly; support and sales route through distributor Arrow Electronics, not Broadcom.
Bank, med-tech, fin-tech compliance
Pump.co is SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, GDPR, AWS Well-Architected, Gov Cloud compliant, & more
CloudHealth Secure State module covers SOC 2, CIS, NIST, HIPAA, PCI DSS, and GDPR frameworks.
