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Get EKS monitoring and automated cost optimization in one easy-to-use platform. We show you how much you spend on EKS, and then we reduce your cost by 50 to 75% automatically. With active smart and automated rightsizing and pricing arbitrage, your cluster is continuously efficient.
Overview
Stay on top of your EKS Kubernetes clusters without spending hours handling repetitive tasks. CAST AI automates Kubernetes cost and active optimization in one easy-to-use platform. No more rightsizing recommendations, we replace them by automation.
You will immediately benefit from features like cost monitoring. We will keep your cloud costs in check with smart and powerful Kubernetes automation, including the fastest autoscaling, bin packing, rightsizing, pricing arbitrage, and spot instance management.
Proven with clients around the world, we will bring 50 to 75% average savings. The best thing: it comes with full AI automation so that you don't need to do it.
Highlights
- Get realtime cost monitoring by namespace, workload, or any other tags by application + get active and automated cost optimization.
- We replace recommendations by automation, with the fastest cluster autoscaler that includes real-time rightsizing and pricing arbitrage of AWS instances.
- Forget about node pools: we manage your nodes out of the box including your spot instances, so that you don't have to.
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Dimension | Description | Cost/month |
|---|---|---|
Free | Get unlimited Kubernetes monitoring and cost reduction insights. | $0.00 |
Growth | Up to 4 managed clusters. Up to 500 CPU (charged based on usage) | $200.00 |
GrowthPro | Unlimited managed clusters. Up to 2000 CPU (charged based on usage) | $1,000.00 |
Enterprise | Unlimited managed clusters. Unlimited CPU (charged based on usage) | $5,000.00 |
The following dimensions are not included in the contract terms, which will be charged based on your usage.
Dimension | Cost/unit |
|---|---|
Additional hourly charge per managed CPU as defined at cast.ai/pricing | $0.01 |
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Support via dedicated Slack channel. https://castai-community.slack.com/ or support@cast.ai
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Customer reviews
Computer Software
The CAST Ai Technology and Team are outstanding.
Reviewed on Nov 27, 2024
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
The CAST AI Team and ease of implementation.
What do you dislike about the product?
The lack of being able to use the CAST console reflects actual cloud cost (after discounts) vs public on-demand costs.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
CAST AI is enabling us to reduce our cloud waste and cost and become more stable and efficient overall.
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Ravi D.
The overall experience with CastAI has been great.
Reviewed on Nov 27, 2024
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
The easy installation, Deployment and upgrade.
Expert and the blazing fast support.
Very intutive UI.
One among the best documentation.
Seemless integration.
Expert and the blazing fast support.
Very intutive UI.
One among the best documentation.
Seemless integration.
What do you dislike about the product?
So far have not encountered anythign that can qualify a feature being irrelevant.
Need more fine grain control to manage interdependant workloads.
Need more fine grain control to manage interdependant workloads.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
We are using CASTAI primamrily to save overal cost. While using the product, it helped us identify data points to improvise and make it well architected. Reduced overal efforts and costs to develop and manage cost control mechanism.
Dario L.
Cast.AI: Innovative savings automation meets outstanding support
Reviewed on Nov 26, 2024
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Cast.AI's cloud cost automation offers a robust solution for resource optimization through its innovative technology, significantly alleviating the burden on DevOps teams. As it integrates seamlessly into our Kubernetes clusters, it has become a critical component of our infrastructure. Without the solid support from Cast.AI, the integration process could have been risky and complex.
What truly sets Cast.AI apart is how it simplifies onboarding and ensures that users can effectively utilize all features. The support team is always prompt and effective, providing the necessary guidance to navigate the complexities of the tool. This level of assistance instills confidence in both the platform and the dedicated professionals behind it.
What truly sets Cast.AI apart is how it simplifies onboarding and ensures that users can effectively utilize all features. The support team is always prompt and effective, providing the necessary guidance to navigate the complexities of the tool. This level of assistance instills confidence in both the platform and the dedicated professionals behind it.
What do you dislike about the product?
I have no significant complaints about Cast.AI; any issues encountered during our integration journey have been promptly resolved by the support team or even directly by the developers.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
Reduce resource waste and lowering overall cost of our cloud infrastructure
Johannes G.
Product is straight forward and Support is great
Reviewed on Nov 25, 2024
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
It was very easy for us to switch from AWS EKS Karpenter to CastAI. There Terraform Modules enabled us to integrate it perfectly into our Infrastructure as Code workflows.
We already during the POC, were able to reduce the Instance Costs by arround 30%, so the product payed for itself. Because of that it was very easy to convince the management to buy the product.
Right now we are working together with cast ai to implement vertical and horezontal autoscaling for all our main workloads (Cast ai VPA+ keda HPA).
We already during the POC, were able to reduce the Instance Costs by arround 30%, so the product payed for itself. Because of that it was very easy to convince the management to buy the product.
Right now we are working together with cast ai to implement vertical and horezontal autoscaling for all our main workloads (Cast ai VPA+ keda HPA).
What do you dislike about the product?
Permission Model needs to be extended. Currently there is no way to give permissions per cluster or namespace. That would be needed for shared responsibility.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
It improves the Cluster Node Scaling and Spot selection. This reduces Instance costs already by arround 30% for us.
We are working on implementing Autoscaling for all our major workloads, by combining cast ai's vertical pod autoscaling and Keda for horezontal autoscaling on application metrics.
We are working on implementing Autoscaling for all our major workloads, by combining cast ai's vertical pod autoscaling and Keda for horezontal autoscaling on application metrics.
Cameron L.
A cost-savings dream for cluster administrators
Reviewed on Nov 15, 2024
Review provided by G2
What do you like best about the product?
Starting off -- CAST is extremely easy to install and configure. They offer scripted install, Helm charts, and Terraform modules which made it very simply to integrate them into our existing cluster bootstrapping process.
Once deployed you instantly are met with dashboards that wil give you valuable insights into spend, usage, and security and enacting cost savings is as simple as clicking a button.
From that moment on they do all of the legwork in node selection and ensure that your nodegroups are running at the most efficient price-point and are scaling as-needed. Say goodbye to manually provisioning and manging node groups for good.
Support has aslo been a high-point when working with CAST. In the rare occasion that we have encountered any issues they have been extraordinarily responsive and dedicate resources to assist with our problem until it is resolved, no matter the time of day or night.
Once deployed you instantly are met with dashboards that wil give you valuable insights into spend, usage, and security and enacting cost savings is as simple as clicking a button.
From that moment on they do all of the legwork in node selection and ensure that your nodegroups are running at the most efficient price-point and are scaling as-needed. Say goodbye to manually provisioning and manging node groups for good.
Support has aslo been a high-point when working with CAST. In the rare occasion that we have encountered any issues they have been extraordinarily responsive and dedicate resources to assist with our problem until it is resolved, no matter the time of day or night.
What do you dislike about the product?
The primary difficulty that we have encountered with CAST is cost justification. The tool costs significantly less money than it saves (and is by far a net positive), however, we find ourselves having to explain to leadership why our largest cost is now CAST. Ultimately this is easy to explain, it is jsut something that we encounter often.
What problems is the product solving and how is that benefiting you?
CAST handles our node selection and provisioning for us entirely. We just install cast in clusters and walk away and can trust that our costs are as low as possible and that our node provisioning will run smoothy.