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Pump
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Free cloud cost-optimization platform that pools buying power to give startups enterprise-level AWS, GCP, and Azure discounts.
64K visits/mo3.2K saves
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Brainboard
✓ verifiedFreemium
AI-driven platform to visually design multi-cloud infrastructure and auto-generate Terraform code with built-in CI/CD.
17K visits/mo
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Union Cloud
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Cloud-agnostic AI/ML workflow orchestrator that runs pipelines inside a customer's own infrastructure for compute-heavy teams.
25K visits/mo
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Frugal
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FinOps tool that maps cloud and AI spend to the code driving it and auto-generates cost-cutting pull requests.
9.7K visits/mo
Pricing
No public pricing
Free: $0 (unlimited architectures and code generation)
Pro: $99/user/mo (Git, CI/CD, RBAC, remote backend)
Free trial available
Team: $950/month + usage (1,000 concurrent actions, 30-day retention, 1 cluster)
No public pricing
Free trial available
Core features
- ✦Automated cloud spend optimization
- ✦Group buying for enterprise discounts
- ✦Cost visibility and insights dashboards
- ✦Coverage across AWS, GCP, and Azure
- ✦No-cost service model
- ✦Visual multi-cloud architecture designer
- ✦Instant Terraform/OpenTofu code generation
- ✦Drift detection and remediation
- ✦Embedded visual CI/CD engine
- ✦GitOps workflow and RBAC
- ✦AI infrastructure generation from prompts
- ✦Python-native dynamic workflow authoring
- ✦Automatic failure recovery, caching, and versioning
- ✦Zero Trust architecture keeping data inside customer's cloud
- ✦Real-time inference and agentic-AI workflow support
- ✦High-throughput scaling (tens of thousands of actions per run)
- ✦Local development environment matching production behavior
- ✦Maps cloud costs to the code that drives them
- ✦Cost-impact review on every pull request
- ✦Frugalbot agents that generate cost-reducing PRs
- ✦Coverage of storage, logs, AI APIs, serverless and databases
- ✦GitHub and GitLab workflow integrations
Use cases
- →Reducing startup cloud bills
- →Automating reserved-capacity savings
- →Gaining visibility into multi-cloud spend
- →Accessing enterprise pricing without scale
- →Designing and deploying cloud infrastructure visually
- →Migrating to Infrastructure as Code
- →Standardizing Terraform modules and naming
- →Detecting drift between design and live cloud
- →ML teams orchestrating training and inference pipelines at scale
- →Biotech/geospatial companies needing GPU-heavy pipeline orchestration
- →Enterprises migrating off Airflow for ML workflow management
- →Teams requiring workflows that never send data outside their own cloud
- →Cut usage-based cloud and AI bills
- →Add cost reviews to the development workflow
- →Guide developers and AI agents to write cheaper code
- →Find savings that infrastructure right-sizing misses
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