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. Requires a sales demo request; AWS Marketplace lists a paid $5,000/month evaluation, not a free tier.
Commitment planner
Pump optimizes commitments for your ever-evolving cloud requirements. Faster than AWS, CE, & CUR
Not documented. Flags underutilized commitments but does not execute RI or Savings Plan purchases or resale.
Idle instance detection
Quickly identify & shut down idle instances
Policies flag idle and orphaned resources and can trigger remediation, but requires authoring Cloud Custodian policies.
Autopilot continuous monitoring
Around the clock analysis of your cloud usage
Not offered natively. Anomaly insight requires integrating third-party tools; no native ML-based auto-remediation.
Rightsizing
Match instance size to real usage patterns
Cost-saving actions come through policy packs, requiring policy configuration rather than one-click UI execution.
Automatic budget alerts
Get notified before you overspend via Slack and Email
AWS budget objects can be queried via policy (aws.budget resource), requiring authoring rather than a dashboard toggle.
Modernization recommendations
Suggests newer & cheaper instances to meet the same requirements
Not documented. No Graviton or ARM-specific migration recommendation feature is published.
Kubernetes auto-scaling
Rightsize pods & workloads automatically
Not offered. The Kubernetes provider (c7n-kube) enforces admission-control policies, not autoscaling or HPA tuning.
Zero lock-in period
Zero days lock-in period for ultimate flexibility
Not offered. Onboarding is demo-request and sales-contract based; no self-serve signup is published.
Cloud Visibility
100% virtual tagging coverage
Auto-tag every untagged resource across your accounts, even retroactively
Automated tagging enforcement applies and corrects labels across the cloud estate without editing native cloud tags.
Single-lens global overview
One dashboard for every cloud, account, & region — no more toggling consoles
AssetDB gives a real-time, queryable inventory of resources, costs, and configs across AWS, Azure, GCP, Tencent Cloud.
Customizable reports
Build the exact view you need with drag-and-drop dimensions, filters, & grouping
AssetDB's SQL and natural-language queries can build unit-economics views, but requires custom query construction.
Kubernetes deployment reports
See cost per deployment, namespace, & pod
Not documented. No Kubernetes cost-per-pod or per-namespace reporting is published.
CFO level financial forecasting
Board-ready spend forecasts you can deliver with confidence
Not documented as a dedicated feature; budget coverage is framed as a third-party integration enhancement.
Top movers alerts
Whose spend on which instances is changing the most?
Not offered as a standalone feature; anomaly insight comes via third-party tool integration, not a native dashboard.
Multi-channel notifications
Receive notifications in the way you're most likely to actually see them
Policy-as-code enforcement is the core Cloud Custodian mechanism Stacklet commercializes for cost and security.
Annotations & teams tagging
Associate people & notations to cloud instances for greater insights
Tagging automation supports allocation-style labeling for shared or cross-team cost attribution.
DeepScan technology
Identify deep inefficiencies like NAT traffic, policy misconfigurations, phantom capacity, & more
Cost-saving opportunities are prioritized by cost impact, remediation effort, and risk.
Multi-cloud support
Pump supports AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Oracle, & more
Covers AWS, Azure, GCP, Tencent Cloud natively; OCI needs Cloud Custodian's separate beta provider package.
Cloud Security
Overcommitment insurance
Pump actually underwrites your RI's & SP's. You CANNOT lose money by working with Pump!
Not offered. Stacklet has no savings guarantee or commitment-insurance product.
Team and product permissions
RBAC to define who is allowed spend what, where
Role-based access control (added 2025) lets admins delegate policy and account-group access by role.
Automatic budget alerts
Get notified before you overspend via Slack and Email
AWS budget objects can be queried via policy (aws.budget resource), requiring authoring rather than a dashboard toggle.
Multi-channel alerts
Receive notifications in the way you're most likely to actually see them
Policy-as-code enforcement is the core Cloud Custodian mechanism Stacklet commercializes for cost and security.
3 dedicated support staff
2 dedicated technical account managers, plus a dedicated solutions architect
Not offered. Lists native integrations with Slack, Jira, and ServiceNow rather than a broad app marketplace.
Bank, med-tech, fin-tech compliance
Pump.co is SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001, GDPR, AWS Well-Architected, Gov Cloud compliant, & more
AssetDB maintains resource revision history and change tracking for compliance and audit reporting.
