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. Onboarding is a 30-day free trial only; Pro and Premier tiers require annual contracts sold through sales.
Commitment planner
Pump optimizes commitments for your ever-evolving cloud requirements. Faster than AWS, CE, & CUR
Not documented. Reserved Instance or Savings Plan purchase, sale, or coverage automation is not part of Kentik Cloud.
Idle instance detection
Quickly identify & shut down idle instances
Not offered. Flags over-provisioned gateways and NAT instances, but cleanup requires manual engineering action.
Autopilot continuous monitoring
Around the clock analysis of your cloud usage
Not documented. Insights and AI Advisor surface cost anomalies; no auto-remediation of flagged issues is described.
Rightsizing
Match instance size to real usage patterns
Not offered. Capacity and interconnect sizing guidance is analysis-only, with no one-click resize execution.
Automatic budget alerts
Get notified before you overspend via Slack and Email
Not documented. No budget threshold, alert, or auto-shutdown feature appears in public product materials.
Modernization recommendations
Suggests newer & cheaper instances to meet the same requirements
Not documented. No Graviton or ARM migration guidance appears in Kentik's cloud cost or network materials.
Kubernetes auto-scaling
Rightsize pods & workloads automatically
Not documented. Kentik ingests Kubernetes flow data but does not optimize HPA or autoscaling policy.
Zero lock-in period
Zero days lock-in period for ultimate flexibility
Not offered. Pro tier requires a sales demo and annual contract; Premier is quote-only, both gated by sales.
Cloud Visibility
100% virtual tagging coverage
Auto-tag every untagged resource across your accounts, even retroactively
Enriches flow data with account, subscription, and app tags without altering underlying cloud-native tags.
Single-lens global overview
One dashboard for every cloud, account, & region — no more toggling consoles
Not offered. Correlates flow logs and cost data across clouds, but does not ingest billing data into one view.
Customizable reports
Build the exact view you need with drag-and-drop dimensions, filters, & grouping
Not documented. Attribution reaches team, app, and service level, short of full cost-per-customer unit economics.
Kubernetes deployment reports
See cost per deployment, namespace, & pod
Not documented. No per-pod or per-namespace Kubernetes cost allocation feature appears in public materials.
CFO level financial forecasting
Board-ready spend forecasts you can deliver with confidence
Not documented. No budget creation, tracking, or forecasting feature is described for Kentik Cloud or Kentik Edge.
Top movers alerts
Whose spend on which instances is changing the most?
AI Advisor and Insights detect cost and traffic anomalies such as egress spikes, surfacing root causes without auto-fix.
Multi-channel notifications
Receive notifications in the way you're most likely to actually see them
Not documented. Alerting routes to ticketing tools, but no Cloud Custodian-style policy enforcement is described.
Annotations & teams tagging
Associate people & notations to cloud instances for greater insights
Enriches flows with tags and metadata to attribute shared connectivity costs by team or project.
DeepScan technology
Identify deep inefficiencies like NAT traffic, policy misconfigurations, phantom capacity, & more
Flags over-provisioned gateways, NAT instances, load balancers as cost traps, without dollar-impact scoring.
Multi-cloud support
Pump supports AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Oracle, & more
Analyzes traffic and cost data across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure.
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 is documented; Kentik has no RI/Savings Plan execution to insure.
Team and product permissions
RBAC to define who is allowed spend what, where
Custom RBAC roles and permissions control access to features and settings, configured under Organization Settings.
Automatic budget alerts
Get notified before you overspend via Slack and Email
Not documented. No budget threshold, alert, or auto-shutdown feature appears in public product materials.
Multi-channel alerts
Receive notifications in the way you're most likely to actually see them
Not documented. Alerting routes to ticketing tools, but no Cloud Custodian-style policy enforcement is described.
3 dedicated support staff
2 dedicated technical account managers, plus a dedicated solutions architect
Not offered at that scale. Integrations cover Slack, Teams, PagerDuty, ServiceNow, Opsgenie, not a 100+ marketplace.
Bank, med-tech, fin-tech compliance
Pump.co is SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, GDPR, AWS Well-Architected, Gov Cloud compliant, & more
Audit Log records configuration changes with source, action, type, user, and timestamp, visible to admin-level users.
