PerfectScale vs. KubeCost at a glance

Ensure peak Kubernetes performance at the lowest possible cost.

Responsible Cost Optimization
Eliminate wasted resources without impacting K8s stability and performance

Autonomous K8s Optimization
Effortlessly and continuously fine-tune your environment for optimal performance and cost efficiency

Enhanced Visibility and Governance
Granular visibility and optimization policy management across node groups, namespaces, containers, and workloads

Monitor & reduce Kubernetes spend
As its name suggests, KubeCost is primarily focused on Kubernetes cost monitoring. It provides insights into Kubernetes-related expenses but has its limitations in terms of data granularity, broader cloud infrastructure management, and ensuring cost-saving measures don’t impact performance or stability.

Feature Comparison

Understand the differences between PerfectScale and KubeCost.

Supported Cloud Platforms

K8s Cost and Utilization Visibility

  • Cost visibility and allocation
  • Cost and waste forecasting
  • Ephemeral workload cost visibility & allocation
  • Node allocation, utilization & idle visibility
  • Node group support
  • Enhanced visibility: Code revision, HPA triggers & replicas

Cost Optimization

  • Cost optimization recommendations
  • Request recommendations: CPU and Memory
  • Limit recommendations: CPU and Memory
  • Custom grouping of ephemeral workloads (Spack, AirFlow, Jobs, Runners, etc)

Performance Optimization

  • Automatic resiliency risk prioritization
  • Customizable resilience issue alerts
  • Issue identification & resolution: OOM & CPU throttling
  • Suspected Memory Leak indications
  • Frequent restarts, evictions & reaching replica limits indications

Automation

  • Autonomous cost optimization
  • Autonomous resilience risk remediation
  • Accounts for code changes and HPA configuration
  • GitOps automated actions

Support and Administration

  • Global support & Documentation
  • Optimization Specialists
  • Requires Prometheus implementation and maintenance

Customer Quotes

"Within a matter of weeks, the intelligence we got from PerfectScale helped safely optimize our environment, significantly reducing costs and improving our application’s performance and resiliency."

Richard Sayd
Sr. Director of Cloud Architecture
@ Paramount Pictures

"We were able to reduce resiliency issues by 90%. PerfectScale is removing time-consuming manual tasks we faced in the past, making it easy to continuously maintain our system’s health and cost-effectiveness."

Ben Hoffman
R&D Director of
Solidus Labs

"With PerfectScale’s recommendations, we reduced our Dev environment costs by approximately $60k a year, without compromising stability."

Amit Daniel
Director of DevOps
at proTeantecs

"With PerfectScale, our DevOps and SRE teams can easily identify resilience issues caused by under-provisioned resources."

Avitsadok Tsadok
Cloud and Infrastructure Architect at Personetics

PerfectScale by DoiT Unique Differentiators

99.99 K8s availability in an environment that is running as lean as possible.

Automated cost and performance optimization

PerfectScale autonomously fine-tunes your K8s environment, leading to continuous results without manual interventions.

Comprehensive right-sizing recommendations

PerfectScale understands your unique usage pattern and provides complete recommendations for requests and limits, helping to prevent common issues such as CPU throttling and out-of-memory errors.

Complete visibility in a simplified interface

PerfectScale offers an intuitive interface for better navigation and extracting insights.

Simple Stateless agent deployment

PerfectScale requires only the deployment of a simple, stateless agent within your Kubernetes clusters to collect necessary data.

FAQs

Is there a free trial?
Yes! PerfectScale offers a free, 30-day trial available for all clusters, including a complimentary "Optimization Session" with a technical specialist.

Is PerfectScale SOC II Compliant?
Yes, data security is a top priority, and we are SOC II Type 2 Compliant.

Is PerfectScale available on the AWS Marketplace?
Yes, you can start a trial and purchase subscriptions directly on the AWS Marketplace.

Does PerfectScale require Prometheus to be installed on our clusters?
No, PerfectScale only requires a single stateless agent with minimal footprint and no ongoing maintenance.

Does PerfectScale have any integrations or an Open-API?
Yes, PerfectScale offers integrations with various collaboration and ticketing tools and has an Open-API available to customers.