CAST Highlight vs Google Cloud Migration Center
CAST Highlight
castsoftware.com
Google Cloud Migration Center
cloud.google.comSide by side
| Figure | CAST Highlight | Google Cloud Migration Center |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | $566.67/mo | Free |
| Free plan | — | Yes |
| Free trial | Yes | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 4 | 1 |
| Spec score · Cloud Migration Assessment Tools | 8.5 (#1) | 8.0 (#6) |
| Spec score · Cloud Migration Tools | 8.5 (#3) | 8.1 (#6) |
| Headquarters | New York, United States, and Paris, France | Mountain View, California, USA |
| Security | CAST says the SaaS platform is ISO 27001 certified and stores analysis results in a client-reserved cloud hosted on AWS, Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud; source code and database scripts are not uploaded. | Discovery client communication to Google Cloud is authenticated with a service account and encrypted using SSL/TLS; collected PII, SPII, and secrets are encrypted at rest with AES128_GCM and Windows DPAPI. |
Plans
CAST Highlight
- Complete Insights (single application)$6,800 a year
- Cloud Insights$30,800 a year
- SCA Insights$33,000 a year
- Complete Edition$44,000 a year
In their own words
CAST Highlight
CAST Highlight is SaaS software for assessing portfolios of custom business applications. Its source analysis reports software risk, complexity, and size, and surfaces application health, resiliency, technical debt, and private data risks. Cloud Insights covers cloud maturity and effort estimates, container readiness, blockers and boosters, and cloud native service recommendations. SCA Insights addresses open source security and license risks, component obsolescence, recommendations, and SBOM creation and importing. AI features identify applications for AI augmentation, recommend AI services or LLMs, and assess agent readiness, blockers, and fixes. Listed plugins include Azure DevOps, GitHub, Jira, BitBucket, and VS Code; product information also names Microsoft Teams, Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini, and Copilot for instant answers. CAST says analysis results are stored in a client-reserved cloud and source code and database scripts need not be uploaded. A 14-day trial includes a preloaded sample portfolio. Annual subscriptions automatically renew unless cancelled with 60 days’ notice. Listed annual plans range from 6800.00 USD for a single named application to 44000.00 USD for Complete Edition.
Google Cloud Migration Center
Google Cloud Migration Center helps plan moves from on-premises systems or other cloud environments to Google Cloud. It estimates future Google Cloud costs from existing resource sizes and configurations, and can inventory servers and Microsoft SQL Server, MySQL, and PostgreSQL databases. Assessments can report total cost of ownership, show application and network dependencies, and suggest destinations based on technical fit. Planning tools offer guidance on what to move and how, including rehost, replatform, and refactor strategies. Infrastructure information can be collected automatically once or continuously, or imported manually. Documented discovery covers AWS assets, Azure virtual machines in preview, and on-premises servers and virtual machines. A Linux and Windows discovery client can create offline reports without sending sensitive data to Google Cloud; the installed client itself runs only on Windows and does not discover databases. The service says it does not collect application or file-storage data. Estimates and assessments cost nothing, though other Google Cloud products may incur charges.