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
Genuinely free, no card/contract, but capped at $250K/year managed spend and 2 K8s clusters.
Commitment planner
Pump optimizes commitments for your ever-evolving cloud requirements. Faster than AWS, CE, & CUR
Commitment Orchestrator purchases AWS RIs/Savings Plans; Azure and GCP commitments are not covered.
Idle instance detection
Quickly identify & shut down idle instances
AutoStopping detects and shuts down idle EC2, RDS, ECS, Azure VMs, and GKE/EKS resources.
Autopilot continuous monitoring
Around the clock analysis of your cloud usage
Not fully autonomous by default; commitment purchases require manual approval within a 24-hour window.
Rightsizing
Match instance size to real usage patterns
Provides rightsizing recommendations for EC2, Azure VMs, ECS, and Kubernetes workloads.
Automatic budget alerts
Get notified before you overspend via Slack and Email
Supports configurable budget thresholds with email/Slack notifications.
Modernization recommendations
Suggests newer & cheaper instances to meet the same requirements
Not documented; recommendations are limited to rightsizing and idle detection, not architecture modernization.
Kubernetes auto-scaling
Rightsize pods & workloads automatically
Cluster Orchestrator applies Karpenter-based autoscaling and bin-packing, limited to AWS EKS.
Zero lock-in period
Zero days lock-in period for ultimate flexibility
Enterprise plans typically require 2-3 year prepaid contracts once spend exceeds the free tier cap.
Cloud Visibility
100% virtual tagging coverage
Auto-tag every untagged resource across your accounts, even retroactively
Supports tag-based cost categories and rule-based retro-tagging across AWS, Azure, and GCP.
Single-lens global overview
One dashboard for every cloud, account, & region — no more toggling consoles
Perspectives provide a unified cross-cloud cost view across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes.
Customizable reports
Build the exact view you need with drag-and-drop dimensions, filters, & grouping
Custom Perspectives and dashboards can be built around business dimensions and cost categories.
Kubernetes deployment reports
See cost per deployment, namespace, & pod
Reports cost by cluster, namespace, workload, node, and label with idle/unallocated cost splits.
CFO level financial forecasting
Board-ready spend forecasts you can deliver with confidence
Not documented as a dedicated forecasting feature; budgets support forecasted-spend alerts only.
Top movers alerts
Whose spend on which instances is changing the most?
Not documented as a named, dedicated feature distinct from anomaly detection.
Multi-channel notifications
Receive notifications in the way you're most likely to actually see them
Notifications can be routed via email and Slack.
Annotations & teams tagging
Associate people & notations to cloud instances for greater insights
Supports cost categories and custom tagging rules for allocation.
DeepScan technology
Identify deep inefficiencies like NAT traffic, policy misconfigurations, phantom capacity, & more
Not offered; no dedicated hidden-waste scanning feature distinct from standard recommendations.
Multi-cloud support
Pump supports AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Oracle, & more
Covers AWS, Azure, and GCP, plus Kubernetes; no OCI or Alibaba Cloud support.
Cloud Security
Overcommitment insurance
Pump actually underwrites your RI's & SP's. You CANNOT lose money by working with Pump!
Not offered; Harness provides no savings guarantee or insurance on commitment purchases.
Team and product permissions
RBAC to define who is allowed spend what, where
RBAC is supported across CCM features per the vendor's feature-support matrix.
Automatic budget alerts
Get notified before you overspend via Slack and Email
Supports configurable budget thresholds with email/Slack notifications.
Multi-channel alerts
Receive notifications in the way you're most likely to actually see them
Notifications can be routed via email and Slack.
3 dedicated support staff
2 dedicated technical account managers, plus a dedicated solutions architect
Not included by default; 24/7 Premier support is a separate paid add-on at a 20% premium.
Bank, med-tech, fin-tech compliance
Pump.co is SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, GDPR, AWS Well-Architected, Gov Cloud compliant, & more
Platform holds SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001/27017/27018, GDPR, and CCPA certifications.
