# 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.