Why teams choose PerfectScale over Cast AI

Cast.ai: All-in-One Automated Cloud Cost Optimization

Cast.ai promotes itself as an all-encompassing cloud cost optimization platform, emphasizing automation and simplicity. Their main value is reducing Kubernetes costs through node rightsizing, with some basic capabilities into workload rightsizing. Their heavy focus on cost reduction can leave blind spots when optimizing environments for resiliency and stability. In general, Cast.ai focuses more on broad strategies compared to the detailed, context-aware optimizations provided by PerfectScale.

Feature Comparison

Understand the differences between PerfectScale and Cast.

OOTB Supported Cloud Platforms

• AWS, Azure, GCP, RedHat OpenShift — PerfectScale: Yes | Cast: Yes
• On-Prem or KOps — PerfectScale: Yes | Cast: Yes

K8s Cost and Utilization Visibility

• Workload visibility and allocation — PerfectScale: Yes | Cast: Partial
• Workload-level utilization visibility — PerfectScale: Yes | Cast: No
• Ephemeral workload cost visibility & allocation — PerfectScale: Yes | Cast: No
• Workload wasted cost forecast — PerfectScale: Yes | Cast: No
• Visibility into code revision history — PerfectScale: Yes | Cast: No
• Visibility into HPA details and amount of replicas — PerfectScale: Yes | Cast: No
• Node-level cost and allocation — PerfectScale: Yes | Cast: Yes
• Node-level utilization visibility — PerfectScale: Yes | Cast: No
• Node group support — PerfectScale: Yes | Cast: No
• Idle node space visibility — PerfectScale: Yes | Cast: No

Cost Optimization

• Cost optimization recommendations — PerfectScale: Yes | Cast: Yes
• Request recommendations: CPU and Memory — PerfectScale: Yes | Cast: Yes
• Limit recommendations: CPU and Memory — PerfectScale: Yes | Cast: No
• HPA optimization insights (replica utilization & low trigger configurations) — PerfectScale: Yes | Cast: No
• Custom grouping of ephemeral workloads (Spark, AirFlow, Jobs, Runners, etc) — PerfectScale: Yes | Cast: No

Performance Optimization

• Automatic resiliency risk prioritization — PerfectScale: Yes | Cast: No
• Customizable resilience issue alerts — PerfectScale: Yes | Cast: No
• Issue identification & resolution: OOM & CPU throttling — PerfectScale: Yes | Cast: No
• Suspected Memory Leak indications — PerfectScale: Yes | Cast: No
• HPA performance insights (hitting replica limits & risky trigger configurations) — PerfectScale: Yes | Cast: No
• Frequent restarts & evictions indications — PerfectScale: Yes | Cast: No

Automation

• Autonomous cost optimization — PerfectScale: Yes | Cast: Yes
• Autonomous resilience risk remediation — PerfectScale: Yes | Cast: No
• Accounts for code changes and HPA configuration — PerfectScale: Yes | Cast: No
• GitOps automated actions — PerfectScale: Yes | Cast: No

Support and Administration

• Global support & Documentation — PerfectScale: Yes | Cast: Yes
• SOC 2 Compliant — PerfectScale: Yes | Cast: Yes
• Optimization Specialists — PerfectScale: Yes | Cast: Yes
• Low Total Cost of Ownership — PerfectScale: Yes | Cast: No
• Multi factor authentication — PerfectScale: Yes | Cast: No