CAST AI vs Economize

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.

Economize is a web-based tool for managing cloud costs across AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. It supports cost allocation, budget alerts, spend forecasting, rightsizing guidance, and commitment management. Its flat-rate plans differ by cloud coverage, account and organization limits, and monthly spend. The Free plan costs nothing, billed monthly, and covers one cloud provider, one account, one organization, and up to $100k monthly cloud spend. Professional costs $249 a month, billed monthly, and includes multi-cloud coverage, 10 accounts, five organizations, and up to $250k monthly spend. Enterprise costs $2,499 a month, with custom quotes above $1M monthly cloud spend. It includes multi-cloud coverage, unlimited accounts and organizations, and up to $1M monthly spend. The Enterprise plan is also described as $2,499/mo onwards. Economize runs on the web platform.