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 — AWS Marketplace pricing is $1.415 per 100 vCPU-hours OR 25-28% share of savings.
Commitment planner
Pump optimizes commitments for your ever-evolving cloud requirements. Faster than AWS, CE, & CUR
Eco module automates AWS Savings Plans and Reserved Instance management.
Idle instance detection
Quickly identify & shut down idle instances
Ocean rightsizing surfaces idle and underutilized pods and nodes.
Autopilot continuous monitoring
Around the clock analysis of your cloud usage
Elastigroup and Ocean continuously manage EC2 spot, on-demand, and Kubernetes workloads.
Rightsizing
Match instance size to real usage patterns
Ocean rightsizes both Kubernetes pods and underlying nodes.
Automatic budget alerts
Get notified before you overspend via Slack and Email
CloudCheckr module (bundled from NetApp portfolio) provides budget 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
Ocean is a Kubernetes cluster autoscaler for EKS, AKS, and GKE.
Zero lock-in period
Zero days lock-in period for ultimate flexibility
AWS Marketplace listings typically require annual commitments for pricing.
Cloud Visibility
100% virtual tagging coverage
Auto-tag every untagged resource across your accounts, even retroactively
Full cloud-native tag support across Elastigroup and Ocean.
Single-lens global overview
One dashboard for every cloud, account, & region — no more toggling consoles
Spot Console provides unified overview; CloudCheckr adds cost breakdown.
Customizable reports
Build the exact view you need with drag-and-drop dimensions, filters, & grouping
CloudCheckr module supports custom cost reports and allocations.
Kubernetes deployment reports
See cost per deployment, namespace, & pod
Ocean dashboards provide cluster, namespace, and pod-level cost views.
CFO level financial forecasting
Board-ready spend forecasts you can deliver with confidence
CloudCheckr includes spend forecasting.
Top movers alerts
Whose spend on which instances is changing the most?
CloudCheckr anomaly detection flags cost spikes.
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 and tags supported across Elastigroup and Ocean.
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 + Azure + GCP supported via Ocean; commitment management focused on AWS.
Cloud Security
Overcommitment insurance
Pump actually underwrites your RI's & SP's. You CANNOT lose money by working with Pump!
Not offered — Spot orchestrates 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 via Spot Console.
Automatic budget alerts
Get notified before you overspend via Slack and Email
CloudCheckr module (bundled from NetApp portfolio) provides budget 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
Flexera enterprise support post-acquisition.
Bank, med-tech, fin-tech compliance
Pump.co is SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, GDPR, AWS Well-Architected, Gov Cloud compliant, & more
SOC 2 and ISO 27001 compliance.
