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 — 14-day free trial only, then 1.95% of monitored AWS spend.
Commitment planner
Pump optimizes commitments for your ever-evolving cloud requirements. Faster than AWS, CE, & CUR
Commitment Management module automates AWS Savings Plans and Reserved Instances.
Idle instance detection
Quickly identify & shut down idle instances
Essentials and Compute Copilot flag idle EC2 and underutilized resources.
Autopilot continuous monitoring
Around the clock analysis of your cloud usage
Compute Copilot autopilot continuously manages EC2 spot and commitment activity.
Rightsizing
Match instance size to real usage patterns
Compute Copilot provides ML-driven EC2 rightsizing recommendations.
Automatic budget alerts
Get notified before you overspend via Slack and Email
Essentials module includes budget threshold alerts.
Modernization recommendations
Suggests newer & cheaper instances to meet the same requirements
Not offered — no Graviton or ARM migration recommendations.
Kubernetes auto-scaling
Rightsize pods & workloads automatically
Container Cost Allocation plus Compute Copilot handle Kubernetes autoscaling.
Zero lock-in period
Zero days lock-in period for ultimate flexibility
Paid tiers typically require annual contracts.
Cloud Visibility
100% virtual tagging coverage
Auto-tag every untagged resource across your accounts, even retroactively
Essentials enforces tagging policies across AWS accounts.
Single-lens global overview
One dashboard for every cloud, account, & region — no more toggling consoles
nOps dashboard aggregates cost, savings, and Copilot activity.
Customizable reports
Build the exact view you need with drag-and-drop dimensions, filters, & grouping
ShareSave module supports custom cost allocation reports.
Kubernetes deployment reports
See cost per deployment, namespace, & pod
Container Cost Allocation provides pod-level Kubernetes cost views.
CFO level financial forecasting
Board-ready spend forecasts you can deliver with confidence
Copilot includes forecasting based on commitment and workload activity.
Top movers alerts
Whose spend on which instances is changing the most?
Anomaly detection flags cost spikes and unusual patterns.
Multi-channel notifications
Receive notifications in the way you're most likely to actually see them
Slack, email, and PagerDuty notification channels.
Annotations & teams tagging
Associate people & notations to cloud instances for greater insights
Labels, tags, and governance rules for allocation.
DeepScan technology
Identify deep inefficiencies like NAT traffic, policy misconfigurations, phantom capacity, & more
Not offered — Pump-exclusive modernization scanner.
Multi-cloud support
Pump supports AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Oracle, & more
AWS-first — Azure and GCP support is limited/read-only.
Cloud Security
Overcommitment insurance
Pump actually underwrites your RI's & SP's. You CANNOT lose money by working with Pump!
Not offered — nOps manages commitments but does not insure against overcommitment loss.
Team and product permissions
RBAC to define who is allowed spend what, where
Role-based access control on paid tiers.
Automatic budget alerts
Get notified before you overspend via Slack and Email
Essentials module includes budget threshold alerts.
Multi-channel alerts
Receive notifications in the way you're most likely to actually see them
Slack, email, and PagerDuty notification channels.
3 dedicated support staff
2 dedicated technical account managers, plus a dedicated solutions architect
Enterprise CSM available on paid tiers.
Bank, med-tech, fin-tech compliance
Pump.co is SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, GDPR, AWS Well-Architected, Gov Cloud compliant, & more
SOC 2 Type II compliance.
