Pump vs Zesty: feature-by-feature summary

Pump includes all 25 capabilities in this comparison. Zesty offers 18 of 25. Zesty does not offer: Free forever plan, Modernization recommendations, Zero lock-in period, Top movers alerts, DeepScan technology, Multi-cloud support, Overcommitment insurance (Pump-Insured).

Cloud Savings

• Free forever plan — Pump: Yes. Zesty: No. Free tier caps at 20 nodes; above that, $500/mo base + $5 per managed vCPU on Kompass.

• Commitment planner — Pump: Yes. Zesty: Yes. Commitment Manager automates AWS Savings Plans on a 25% share-of-savings basis.

• Idle instance detection — Pump: Yes. Zesty: Yes. Kompass rightsizing surfaces idle/underutilized workloads for consolidation.

• Autopilot continuous monitoring — Pump: Yes. Zesty: Yes. Multi-Dimensional Autoscaling continuously adjusts pod resources and node placement.

• Rightsizing — Pump: Yes. Zesty: Yes. Native rightsizing across pods, nodes, and workloads via Kompass.

• Automatic budget alerts — Pump: Yes. Zesty: Yes. Insights layer includes budget and spend alerts.

• Modernization recommendations — Pump: Yes. Zesty: No. Not offered — no Graviton or ARM migration recommendations.

• Kubernetes auto-scaling — Pump: Yes. Zesty: Yes. Kompass provides Kubernetes pod and node autoscaling; AWS-only for commitments.

• Zero lock-in period — Pump: Yes. Zesty: No. AWS Marketplace listings typically require annual $5K+/mo commitments to unlock pricing.

Cloud Visibility

• 100% virtual tagging coverage — Pump: Yes. Zesty: Yes. Supports native cloud tags plus Zesty-specific labels for allocation.

• Single-lens global overview — Pump: Yes. Zesty: Yes. Zesty Insights provides a unified spend dashboard across managed services.

• Customizable reports — Pump: Yes. Zesty: Yes. Custom reports available via Insights and Kompass reporting.

• Kubernetes deployment reports — Pump: Yes. Zesty: Yes. Cluster, namespace, and pod-level Kubernetes cost reports.

• CFO-level financial forecasting — Pump: Yes. Zesty: Yes. Insights includes cost forecasting based on Kompass and Commitment data.

• Top movers alerts — Pump: Yes. Zesty: No. Not offered as a documented named feature.

• Multi-channel notifications — Pump: Yes. Zesty: Yes. Slack, email, and Jira notifications on scaling and commitment events.

• Annotations & team tagging — Pump: Yes. Zesty: Yes. Native cloud labels supported for cost allocation and reporting.

• DeepScan technology — Pump: Yes. Zesty: No. Not offered — Pump-exclusive modernization scanner.

• Multi-cloud support — Pump: Yes. Zesty: No. K8s Kompass supports multi-cloud; Commitment Manager is AWS-only (Savings Plans/RIs).

• Overcommitment insurance (Pump-Insured) — Pump: Yes. Zesty: No. Not offered — Zesty executes commitments but does not insure against overcommitment loss.

Cloud Security

• Team and product permissions — Pump: Yes. Zesty: Yes. RBAC included on paid tiers.

• Automatic budget alerts — Pump: Yes. Zesty: Yes. Insights layer includes budget threshold alerts.

• Multi-channel alerts — Pump: Yes. Zesty: Yes. Slack, email, and Jira notification channels.

• Dedicated support staff — Pump: Yes. Zesty: Yes. Enterprise support tier includes dedicated CSM.

• Bank, med-tech and fin-tech compliance — Pump: Yes. Zesty: Yes. SOC 2 Type II compliance.