A Dynamic KubeCost Alternative: PerfectScale

Safely reduce K8s costs, while promoting a more resilient environment.

PerfectScale vs. KubeCost at a glance
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Ensure peak Kubernetes performance at the lowest possible cost.
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Responsible Cost Optimization
Eliminate wasted resources without impacting K8s stability and performance
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Autonomous K8s Optimization
Effortlessly and continuously fine-tune your environment for optimal performance and cost efficiency
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Enhanced Visibility and Governance
Granular visibility and optimization policy management across node groups, namespaces, containers, and workloads
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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.





Feature Comparison

Understand the differences between PerfectScale and KubeCost.

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Supported Cloud Platforms
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On-Prem
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K8s Cost and Utilization Visibility
Cost visibility and allocation
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Cost and waste forecasting
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Ephemeral workload cost visibility & allocation 
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Node allocation, utilization & idle visibility
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Node group support
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Enhanced visibility: Code revision, HPA triggers & replicas
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Cost Optimization
Cost optimization recommendations
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Request recommendations: CPU and Memory
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Limit recommendations: CPU and Memory
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Custom grouping of ephemeral workloads
(Spack, AirFlow, Jobs, Runners, etc)
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Performance Optimization
Automatic resiliency risk prioritization
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Customizable resilience issue alerts
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Issue identification & resolution: OOM & CPU throttling  
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Suspected Memory Leak indications
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Frequent restarts, evictions & reaching replica limits indications
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Automation
Autonomous cost optimization
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Autonomous resilience risk remediation
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Accounts for code changes and HPA configuration
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GitOps automated actions
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Support and Administration
Global support & Documentation
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Optimization Specialists
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Requires Prometheus implementation and maintenance
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"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. We have yet to see another tool in the market that effectively and accurately optimizes Kubernetes environments like PerfectScale does."

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 have 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 were able to reduce costs of our Dev environment by rough $60k a year, without compromising the stability of the environment.”

Amit Daniel

Director of DevOps
at proTeantecs

"With PerfectScale, it has never been easier for our DevOps and SRE teams to identify resilience issues caused by under-provisioned resources. With a few clicks, we are able to quickly address these issues and improve our application's performance."

Avitsadok Tsadok

Cloud and Infrastructure
Architect at Personetics 

Reduce Costs. Improve Performance.
No Code Changes Needed.

PerfectScale Unique Differentiators

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

Automated cost and performance optimization

PerfectScale saves valuable time and resources by autonomously fine-tuning your K8s environment. Automated actions can be seamlessly integrated with your existing GitOps processes, ensuring that all changes are in sync with your deployment workflow. This leads to continuous results without manual interventions.

Comprehensive right-sizing recommendations

PerfectScale’s recommendations are practical, and understand your unique usage pattern, code changes, node capacity, and HPA configurations.  Additionally, we provide complete recommendations for both requests and limits, that allow you to optimize safely while preventing common issues that cause CPU throttling, out-of-memory errors, or pod evictions.

Complete visibility in a simplified interface

PerfectScale provides a more intuitive and user-friendly interface, making it easier for users to navigate and extract valuable insights and predictive analytics that help you understand the impact of taking optimization actions. 

Simple Stateless agent deployment

To get started, PerfectScale requires only the deployment of a simple, stateless agent within the user’s Kubernetes clusters. This agent collects the necessary data and metrics and communicates them back to the PerfectScale SaaS platform, all with a minimal footprint and no additional overhead. 

FAQs

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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. You can start a trail here.

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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.

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Is PerfectScale Available on the AWS Marketplace?

Yes, you can start a trial and purchase subscription licensing directly on the AWS Marketplace. You can find our listing here.

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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.

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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. You can view our full list of integrations here.  

Additionally, PerfectScale has an Open-API that is available to customers who have subscribed to our Expert Plan.

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