Pump vs Harness CCM: feature-by-feature summary

Pump includes all 25 capabilities in this comparison. Harness CCM offers 17 of 25. Harness CCM does not offer: Autopilot continuous monitoring, Modernization recommendations, Zero lock-in period, Kubernetes deployment reports, Top movers alerts, DeepScan technology, Overcommitment insurance (Pump-Insured), Dedicated support staff.

Cloud Savings

• Free forever plan — Pump: Yes. Harness CCM: Yes. Genuinely free, no card/contract, but capped at $250K/year managed spend and 2 K8s clusters.

• Commitment planner — Pump: Yes. Harness CCM: Yes. Commitment Orchestrator purchases AWS RIs/Savings Plans; Azure and GCP commitments are not covered.

• Idle instance detection — Pump: Yes. Harness CCM: Yes. AutoStopping detects and shuts down idle EC2, RDS, ECS, Azure VMs, and GKE/EKS resources.

• Autopilot continuous monitoring — Pump: Yes. Harness CCM: No. Not fully autonomous: commitment purchases need manual approval within a 24-hour window.

• Rightsizing — Pump: Yes. Harness CCM: Yes. Provides rightsizing recommendations for EC2, Azure VMs, ECS, and Kubernetes workloads.

• Automatic budget alerts — Pump: Yes. Harness CCM: Yes. Supports configurable budget thresholds with email/Slack notifications.

• Modernization recommendations — Pump: Yes. Harness CCM: No. Not documented: recs are for rightsizing and idle detection, not architecture modernization.

• Kubernetes auto-scaling — Pump: Yes. Harness CCM: Yes. Cluster Orchestrator applies Karpenter-based autoscaling and bin-packing, limited to AWS EKS.

• Zero lock-in period — Pump: Yes. Harness CCM: No. Enterprise plans typically require 2-3 year prepaid contracts once spend exceeds the free tier cap.

Cloud Visibility

• 100% virtual tagging coverage — Pump: Yes. Harness CCM: Yes. Supports tag-based cost categories and rule-based retro-tagging across AWS, Azure, and GCP.

• Single-lens global overview — Pump: Yes. Harness CCM: Yes. Perspectives provide a unified cross-cloud cost view across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes.

• Customizable reports — Pump: Yes. Harness CCM: Yes. Custom Perspectives and dashboards can be built around business dimensions and cost categories.

• Kubernetes deployment reports — Pump: Yes. Harness CCM: No. Reports cost by cluster, namespace, workload, node, and label with idle/unallocated cost splits.

• CFO-level financial forecasting — Pump: Yes. Harness CCM: Yes. Not documented as a dedicated forecasting feature; budgets support forecasted-spend alerts only.

• Top movers alerts — Pump: Yes. Harness CCM: No. Not documented as a named, dedicated feature distinct from anomaly detection.

• Multi-channel notifications — Pump: Yes. Harness CCM: Yes. Sends budget and anomaly alerts via email and Slack.

• Annotations & team tagging — Pump: Yes. Harness CCM: Yes. Supports cost categories and custom tagging rules for allocation.

• DeepScan technology — Pump: Yes. Harness CCM: No. Not offered; no dedicated hidden-waste scanning feature distinct from standard recommendations.

• Multi-cloud support — Pump: Yes. Harness CCM: Yes. Covers AWS, Azure, and GCP, plus Kubernetes; no OCI or Alibaba Cloud support.

• Overcommitment insurance (Pump-Insured) — Pump: Yes. Harness CCM: No. Not offered; Harness provides no savings guarantee or insurance on commitment purchases.

Cloud Security

• Team and product permissions — Pump: Yes. Harness CCM: Yes. RBAC is supported across CCM features per the vendor's feature-support matrix.

• Automatic budget alerts — Pump: Yes. Harness CCM: Yes. Threshold-based budget alerts are included with Perspectives and Budgets.

• Multi-channel alerts — Pump: Yes. Harness CCM: Yes. Notifications can be routed via email and Slack.

• Dedicated support staff — Pump: Yes. Harness CCM: No. Not included by default; 24/7 Premier support is a separate paid add-on at a 20% premium.

• Bank, med-tech and fin-tech compliance — Pump: Yes. Harness CCM: Yes. Platform holds SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001/27017/27018, GDPR, and CCPA certifications.