Pump vs Kentik: feature-by-feature summary

Pump includes all 25 capabilities in this comparison. Kentik offers 8 of 25. Kentik does not offer: Free forever plan, Commitment planner, Idle instance detection, Autopilot continuous monitoring, Rightsizing, Automatic budget alerts, Modernization recommendations, Kubernetes auto-scaling, Zero lock-in period, Single-lens global overview, Customizable reports, Kubernetes deployment reports, CFO-level financial forecasting, DeepScan technology, Overcommitment insurance (Pump-Insured), Multi-channel alerts, Dedicated support staff.

Cloud Savings

• Free forever plan — Pump: Yes. Kentik: No. Not offered. Onboarding is a 30-day free trial only; Pro and Premier tiers require annual contracts sold through sales.

• Commitment planner — Pump: Yes. Kentik: No. Not documented: RI or SP purchase, sale, or coverage automation isn't part of Kentik Cloud.

• Idle instance detection — Pump: Yes. Kentik: No. Not offered. Flags over-provisioned gateways and NAT instances, but cleanup requires manual engineering action.

• Autopilot continuous monitoring — Pump: Yes. Kentik: No. Not documented. Insights and AI Advisor surface cost anomalies; no auto-remediation of flagged issues is described.

• Rightsizing — Pump: Yes. Kentik: No. Not offered. Capacity and interconnect sizing guidance is analysis-only, with no one-click resize execution.

• Automatic budget alerts — Pump: Yes. Kentik: No. Not documented: no budget threshold, alert, or auto-shutdown feature appears in product materials.

• Modernization recommendations — Pump: Yes. Kentik: No. Not documented: no Graviton/ARM migration guidance appears in Kentik's cost or network materials.

• Kubernetes auto-scaling — Pump: Yes. Kentik: No. Not documented. Kentik ingests Kubernetes flow data but does not optimize HPA or autoscaling policy.

• Zero lock-in period — Pump: Yes. Kentik: No. Not offered: Pro tier needs a sales demo and annual contract; Premier is quote-only.

Cloud Visibility

• 100% virtual tagging coverage — Pump: Yes. Kentik: Yes. Enriches flow data with account, subscription, and app tags without altering cloud-built-in tags.

• Single-lens global overview — Pump: Yes. Kentik: No. Not offered. Correlates flow logs and cost data across clouds, but does not ingest billing data into one view.

• Customizable reports — Pump: Yes. Kentik: No. Not documented. Attribution reaches team, app, and service level, short of full cost-per-customer unit economics.

• Kubernetes deployment reports — Pump: Yes. Kentik: No. Not documented: no per-pod or per-namespace K8s allocation feature appears in materials.

• CFO-level financial forecasting — Pump: Yes. Kentik: No. Not documented: no budget creation, tracking, or forecasting is described.

• Top movers alerts — Pump: Yes. Kentik: Yes. AI Advisor and Insights detect cost and traffic anomalies such as egress spikes, surfacing root causes without auto-fix.

• Multi-channel notifications — Pump: Yes. Kentik: Yes. Alert notification channels support Slack, PagerDuty, ServiceNow, Microsoft Teams, Opsgenie.

• Annotations & team tagging — Pump: Yes. Kentik: Yes. Enriches flows with tags and metadata to attribute shared connectivity costs by team or project.

• DeepScan technology — Pump: Yes. Kentik: No. Flags over-provisioned gateways, NAT instances, load balancers as cost traps.

• Multi-cloud support — Pump: Yes. Kentik: Yes. Analyzes traffic and cost data across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.

• Overcommitment insurance (Pump-Insured) — Pump: Yes. Kentik: No. Not offered: no commitment insurance; Kentik has no RI/SP execution to insure.

Cloud Security

• Team and product permissions — Pump: Yes. Kentik: Yes. Custom RBAC roles and permissions control access to features and settings.

• Automatic budget alerts — Pump: Yes. Kentik: Yes. Supports SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 certified hosting, with GDPR, PCI, and HIPAA framework references in security docs.

• Multi-channel alerts — Pump: Yes. Kentik: No. Not documented: alerts route to ticketing tools, but no native multi-channel routing is described.

• Dedicated support staff — Pump: Yes. Kentik: No. Not offered at that scale. Integrations cover Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, ServiceNow, Opsgenie.

• Bank, med-tech and fin-tech compliance — Pump: Yes. Kentik: Yes. Audit Log records configuration changes with source, action, type, user, and timestamp, visible to admin-level users.