CAST AI vs CloudBolt
CAST AI
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| Figure | CAST AI | CloudBolt |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | Yes |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| API | — | Yes |
| Self-hosted | Yes | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 1 |
| Spec score · FinOps Software | 7.7 (#3) | 7.9 (#1) |
| Spec score · Cloud Cost Management Software | 7.7 (#7) | 8.0 (#5) |
| Spec score · Kubernetes Cost Management Software | 7.7 (#8) | 7.9 (#5) |
| Integrations | The integrations page lists Grafana, Terraform, Crossplane, Prometheus, Jira, OpenTelemetry, Helm, and Pulumi. | The CMP page describes a library of more than 200 integrations, including ITSM, infrastructure-as-code, identity, security, and backup tools. |
| Security | CAST AI states that it has achieved ISO 27001 certification and describes policies for information security and data privacy. | CloudBolt’s site displays AICPA SOC and GDPR badges and says CloudBolt is powered by AWS. |
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In their own words
CAST AI
CAST AI is an Application Performance Automation platform for cloud-native operations and Kubernetes automation. It automates workload rightsizing, node scaling, GPU and Spot optimization, and issue remediation. Rightsizing adjusts CPU and memory requests, limits, and replicas in response to workload behavior. The platform says its engine can predict Spot interruptions up to 30 minutes ahead and migrate workloads before a slowdown. Agentic runbooks can address operational and security issues, with approval required for each change before it ships.
Teams can connect clusters in read-only mode without infrastructure changes. Listed environments include AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, Oracle Cloud, IBM Cloud, OpenShift, Rancher, VMware Tanzu, AliCloud, kOps, PostgreSQL, MySQL, and on-prem Kubernetes. Cost tools include allocation, spend forecasting, rightsizing guidance, and commitment management. CAST AI integrates with tools including Grafana, Terraform, Prometheus, Jira, and Pulumi. It is available on the web and as self-hosted software. Pricing is custom and available on request; a free trial is available.
CloudBolt
CloudBolt provides cloud management and Kubernetes rightsizing for teams governing and optimizing hybrid environments. CloudBolt CMP offers self-service provisioning under policies and standardized workflows. It supports more than 25 cloud providers and hypervisor platforms, including AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, IBM Cloud, VMware, Hyper-V, Nutanix, OpenStack, OpenShift and Kubernetes. Its integration library contains more than 200 tools spanning IT service management, infrastructure-as-code, identity, security and backup. CMP governance includes role-based access, granular permissions, approvals, policy enforcement and audit trails. For cost oversight, it offers cross-environment visibility, budgets, quota enforcement, forecasts and optimization recommendations, along with cost allocation, budget alerts and commitment management. StormForge checks Kubernetes optimization recommendations against performance data and can apply validated changes automatically, with health checks and rollback. Its free trial covers full optimization on one cluster for 30 days. CMP Free costs nothing and includes core CMP capabilities for up to 100 resources, forever. CloudBolt also lists custom billing, paid support packages and professional services.