# Sedai: Demos Full content of 1 page from https://sedai.io/demo. Each entry starts with the page title and its source URL. Every full-content file is listed in https://sedai.io/llms.txt. --- # Sedai vs. Kubecost Source: https://sedai.io/demo/sedai-vs-kubecost Optimize your cloud cost, performance and availability while saving time with AI. ## Kubecost shows cloud waste. Sedai actually cuts it — safely. Industry leaders save millions with Sedai's patented AI doing the work that Kubecost leaves to your engineers. Zero incidents across millions of autonomous actions. ## Trusted by Industry Leaders ## Why Leading Enterprises Choose Sedai Your team doesn't need another dashboard full of recommendations that sit in a backlog for months. Sedai uses causal AI to understand your workloads, detect seasonality, and autonomously rightsize your resources without the risk of blind cuts. | Kubecost | Sedai | | --- | --- | | Kubernetes Only | K8s + VMs + Serverless + Storage + Data + AI | | Recommendations to act on | Autonomous actions taken | | Cost only | Cost + Performance + Availability | | Manual review required | Patented safety checks + auto-rollback | | Pricing scales steeply per cluster/vCPU | Predictable pricing, pays for itself | | Teams with engineering capacity to act | Teams that want savings, not extra ops work | ## What Makes Sedai Different? Get safe, outcome-driven optimization at scale. Designed to act on real application behavior, with safeguards built into every decision. You can start in Copilot — approving optimizations with a click. Then switch to Autopilot when you're ready for fully autonomous operations. ### Safe Autonomy ### Full-Stack Cloud Coverage ### Enterprise-Grade Governance ## Cut Costs Across Your Entire Stack ### Containers ### Sedai rightsizes workloads, tunes scaling, and optimizes nodes & clusters to cut costs while meeting SLOs. ### VMs ### One sentence summary of Sedai’s relevant features for containers ### Serverless ### Sedai tunes memory, concurrency, & scheduling to hit latency targets at the best price-per-ms across AWS Lambda, Azure Functions, & Cloud Functions. ### Storage ### Sedai trims storage spend while meeting retention and performance requirements—automating lifecycle tiering, right-sizing IOPS/throughput, and cleaning up waste across clouds. ### Data & Streaming ### Sedai cuts data & streaming costs by right-sizing clusters, tuning autoscaling, & aligning configurations with real workload behavior. Teams get lower cost per run & clear visibility into realized savings. ## Engineering Leaders Love Sedai ### $3.5M “Sedai has helped us save millions of dollars by optimizing and managing our own back-end services. [The] autonomous system is transformative.” ### SVP of Engineering ### 1,000+ “Nothing is more important than eliminating toil for my team. Now, Sedai handles thousands of cloud optimizations for us, completely on Autopilot.” ### Director of Data Engineering ### 42% “By having Sedai in place, we’re not just saving money. We’re preventing would-be customer problems before they become an issue.” ### VP of Engineering ### 77% “The AI manages and optimizes every application, every second of the day, so Belcorp’s cloud is always efficient and reliable. Sedai gives us that confidence.” ### Chief Digital Officer ## See Sedai in Action 29 minutes with a real engineer — not a BDR. Bring your toughest technical questions. ## Frequently Asked Questions ### How much does Sedai cost? How does pricing work? Sedai uses a simple, volume-based pricing model, designed to ensure our customers achieve a positive ROI. For example, we charge 1 Sedai Billing Unit (SBU) for each vCPU that our platform manages. There are no overage penalties — if you exceed your monthly commitment, you simply pay the same rate for the extra usage. You can also adjust your commitment, as your needs change over time. ### Can I see Sedai working before I sign a contract? Yes. We can run a free proof of value (POV) in your environment so you can see Sedai working on your own workloads before signing a contract. During the POV, Sedai doesn’t just identify savings opportunities. If you prefer, we can also execute approved optimizations in your environment to demonstrate the real impact using your actual infrastructure data. Our team owns the setup, monitoring, execution, and reporting, so your team can focus on reviewing the results, safety controls, and savings potential. ### How does Sedai make sure that optimizations never cause availability issues or degrade performance? Safe optimization is our secret sauce. When Sedai identifies a potential cost or performance improvement, our platform makes that optimization in gradual steps, while continuously validating the impact of the change on your environment. For example, if Sedai determines it can lower the memory limit of a container without impacting performance, it won’t make a big change all at once, from say 12 to 4 GB. Instead, Sedai will gradually lower the memory to achieve maximum cost savings, until the exact point where performance is impacted. Your performance and availability SLOs will stay intact. ### Which cloud providers does Sedai support? And what specific services can Sedai optimize? Sedai supports the widest range of cloud services & on-prem workloads in our industry. This includes all the major cloud providers: AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, & Oracle Cloud Infrastructure. We’re the experts at optimizing Kubernetes — think EKS, AKS, & GKE, as well as on-prem (Rancher, OpenShift etc.) But our platform is unique in going way beyond K8s. Sedai also optimizes storage, data platforms, and AI/ML workloads. ### What makes Sedai different from competitors? Why choose Sedai? Only Sedai deeply understands how your applications behave, which is why our platform can optimize safely without causing performance or availability issues. Most tools either stop at recommendations or make risky changes based on surface-level metrics like CPU and memory utilization. Sedai goes deeper. Our patented ML models learn what your applications actually need by analyzing traffic patterns, dependencies, and golden signals like latency, errors, traffic, and saturation. That application-aware approach is what makes Sedai safe in production. To date, Sedai has performed more than 25 million optimizations with zero incidents. ### Will I be able to control Sedai’s actions? Sedai offers three operating modes that give you full control. In Datapilot mode, Sedai provides read-only recommendations, for you to implement. In Copilot mode, Sedai lets your team approve optimizations with one click, which Sedai then safely executes. Once you trust the platform, you can turn on Autopilot mode for resources or environments that you select, which enables Sedai to make optimizations autonomously. Across the board, Sedai enables your team to instantly roll back a change, schedule maintenance windows, & pause optimizations for any reason. ### How does Sedai integrate with our CI/CD pipeline? Does it lead to IaC drift? Sedai is designed to work alongside your existing CI/CD and GitOps workflows, not replace them. When Sedai optimizes a resource, it can automatically open a pull request in your Git repository reflecting the change, so your IaC stays in sync across tools like Terraform, Helm, and Kustomize. For environments where the pipeline might otherwise overwrite Sedai’s changes, Sedai includes overwrite protection, including a Kubernetes Admission Controller for GitOps tools like Argo CD and Flux. This helps preserve approved optimizations without disrupting your existing workflow. The result is full auditability, no hidden drift, and no rip-and-replace required. ### Do we have to install agents for Sedai to work? Sedai offers both agent-based and agentless deployment options, dependent on your use case. For most cloud resources, Sedai connects securely via IAM permissions, without requiring an agent. However, for Kubernetes clusters, we recommend using our Smart Agent for deeper integration. You can also choose agentless setups for AKS, EKS, & GKE clusters, if you prefer. Onboarding is quick — typically just 15 minutes. ### Is Sedai secure enough for regulated industries? SOC 2 Type 2 certified, with read-only API access by default and granular role-based controls for any write actions. Sedai operates in environments at financial services, healthcare, and government companies — including organizations with strict change management requirements. We can walk through specific compliance and audit requirements during your demo.