kubecost vs perfectscale

Why teams move from Kubecost

See how autonomous optimization beats dashboards alone on savings, speed, and performance.

PerfectScale Kubernetes optimization dashboard

Two products, two very different scopes

  • PerfectScale

    Responsible cost optimization that eliminates wasted resources without impacting K8s stability and performance. Autonomous K8s optimization continuously fine-tunes your environment for optimal performance and cost efficiency. Enhanced visibility and governance across node groups, namespaces, containers, and workloads.

  • KubeCost

    Monitor & reduce Kubernetes spend. As its name suggests, is primarily focused on Kubernetes cost monitoring, and it does a decent job in this specific domain. It provides insights into Kubernetes-related expenses but has its limitations in terms of data granularity, broader cloud infrastructure management, and most importantly, ensuring cost savings measures don't impact performance or stability.

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Cost visibility and allocation
Cost and waste forecasting
Ephemeral workload cost visibility & allocation
Node allocation, utilization & idle visibility
Node group support
Code revision, HPA triggers & replicas visibility
Request recommendations: CPU and Memory
Limit recommendations: CPU and Memory
Custom grouping of ephemeral workloads
Automatic resiliency risk prioritization
Customizable resilience issue alerts
Issue identification & resolution: OOM & CPU throttling
Suspected memory leak indications
Frequent restarts, evictions & reaching replica limits
Autonomous cost optimization
Autonomous resilience risk remediation
Accounts for code changes and HPA configuration
GitOps automated actions
Optimization Specialists
Requires Prometheus implementation and maintenance

What they say

PicnicAI

“PerfectScale gives us the confidence to automate Kubernetes optimization while letting our engineers focus on building what matters.”

Josh Zarrabi, Infrastructure Engineer

Stefanini

“Without PerfectScale by DoiT, I don't know how we would do it. We'd have to have twice the number of people on my team to stay on top of it. With PerfectScale, we can focus on the more strategic issues.”

David Adkins, Director of Software and Platform Engineering

OneFootball

PerfectScale by DoiT has become an important part of how we optimize Kubernetes at scale at OneFootball. It gives our platform team the visibility, automation, resiliency insights, and confidence we need to balance cost efficiency with production readiness, especially as we prepare for major global football moments like the 2026 FIFA World Cup.

Andrea Benfatto, Platform/Cloud Runtime Engineering Manager

Luma Health

PerfectScale cut 40% off our total EKS spend, and the automations handle what used to take our team 20 hours a month. Now we spend that time on reliability and performance instead of chasing cost metrics.

Caio Cristo, Director of Infrastructure/SRE

PlayHQ

Every customer has unique usage patterns. Manual resource optimization simply didn't scale—we needed automation to ensure every customer, regardless of size, had right-sized infrastructure without consuming our team's capacity.

Brad Quinn, Lead Platform Engineer, PlayHQ

Cut cost. Boost performance. No code changes.

Autonomous optimization starts fast and scales across every cluster.

PerfectScale Unique Differentiators

99.99 K8s availability in an environment running as lean as possible

Automated cost and performance optimization

Autonomously fine-tune your K8s environment with GitOps-integrated actions.

Comprehensive right-sizing

Recommendations for both requests and limits, aware of code and HPA.

Complete visibility

Intuitive interface with predictive analytics on optimization impact.

Stateless agent deployment

A single lightweight agent. No Prometheus required.

Prevent OOM and throttling

Catch memory leaks, evictions, and replica limits before users do.

Works everywhere K8s runs

EKS, GKE, AKS, OpenShift, and on-prem clusters.

Frequently asked
questions

Does PerfectScale offer a free trial?

Yes! PerfectScale offers a free, 30-day trial of our solutions, available for all of your clusters. Each trial comes with a complimentary "Optimization Session", in which one of our technical specialists will help you review your results and provide you insights that can help streamline your optimization process.

Is PerfectScale SOC II Compliant?

Yes, the security of your cluster data is a top priority, and we are SOC II Type 2 Compliant. Our SOC II report can be made available to those in an active trial.

Is PerfectScale Available on the AWS Marketplace?

Yes, you can start a trial and purchase subscription licensing directly on the AWS Marketplace.

Does PerfectScale require Prometheus to be installed on our clusters?

No, unlike other optimization solutions, PerfectScale does not require Prometheus to provide insights into your environment. You simply need to install a single stateless agent that will require a minimal footprint and ongoing maintenance.

Does PerfectScale have any integrations or an Open-API?

Yes, PerfectScale has OOTB integrations with collaboration tools (like Slack and MS Teams), ticketing tools (like JIRA), various SSO solutions, and much more. Additionally, PerfectScale has an Open-API that is available to customers who have subscribed to our Expert Plan.

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