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North Cloud vs PerfectScale comparison

 

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Review summaries and opinions

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Categories and Ranking

North Cloud
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
16th
Average Rating
9.6
Reviews Sentiment
5.7
Number of Reviews
8
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
PerfectScale
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
23rd
Average Rating
9.4
Reviews Sentiment
1.7
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of August 2026, in the Cloud Cost Management category, the mindshare of North Cloud is 1.2%, up from 0.1% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of PerfectScale is 1.8%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Cost Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
North Cloud1.2%
PerfectScale1.8%
Other97.0%
Cloud Cost Management
 

Featured Reviews

Amandeep Pawar - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior Engineer at Airy Software Technologies Private Limited
Improved cloud cost governance has enabled precise budgeting, monitoring, and waste reduction
For North Cloud's improvement, I would suggest enhancing its AI capabilities, adding advanced AI/ML features, improving real-time cost tracking to reduce the delay between cloud usage and dashboard updates, enhancing custom reporting with a more flexible report builder, drag-and-drop functionality, SQL support, and the ability to create custom KPIs per unit, as well as deeper cloud integrations beyond Azure, AWS, and GCP to Kubernetes cost tracking, improving tagging governance, and providing automatic detection of missing and incorrect cloud tags, plus AI-based tagging recommendations and a better user experience with more modern and interactive dashboards for easier navigation for non-technical users. For needed improvements, I would add that there should be easier navigation for non-technical users for the financial team and a simplified onboarding for new users, along with advanced alerting systems, smart alert thresholds using historical trends, predictive alerts, and multi-channel notifications via Slack, Teams, email, and PagerDuty.
reviewer2750058 - PeerSpot reviewer
DevOps & FinOps Engineer at a tech vendor with 501-1,000 employees
Gain visibility into Kubernetes clusters and optimize resource allocation based on historical data
I think they should focus more on Kubernetes features that allow on-the-fly resource allocation without the need to restart services. They should implement this in their autoscaler to make it more useful in scenarios that require immediate scaling up or down. They should also offer more options for visualizing graphs in different ways, such as tabular views.

Quotes from Members

We asked business professionals to review the solutions they use. Here are some excerpts of what they said:
 

Pros

"North has been an excellent partner in managing our AWS costs."
"North Cloud was able to get us access to savings plans that cut approximately 20% from our monthly AWS costs."
"Since using North Cloud, we have been able to save around 25% in costs, and in terms of time, it has saved us around 15% as well."
"North Cloud has positively impacted my organization by reducing our AWS bill by 15%."
"North Cloud has also helped us cut costs by 21 percent because we only pay for what we use and receive recommendations from the platform."
"North Cloud has positively impacted my organization by delivering a strong ROI through reducing unnecessary cloud spending and achieving 10 to 30% in cloud cost savings by optimizing the environment, reducing idle resource wastage, improving budgeting accuracy, enabling faster identification of cost spikes, and fostering better financial accountability across teams."
"North Cloud is super valuable in just allowing us to focus on where we add the most value to our organization and not have to worry about operational overhead such as cost savings plans."
"North Cloud has been a great partner in helping us navigate cloud cost savings."
"Automated resource optimization using different policies based on the environment enabled the organization to achieve infrastructure cost savings."
"PerfectScale made our Kubernetes optimization effortless; it found wasted resources, lowered our cloud costs, and improved performance almost instantly."
"The cluster and workload autoscaler gives us the ability to have control over all the workloads' resources instead of managing them one by one."
 

Cons

"Support needs improvement as it is very limited to one language."
"I think North Cloud can be improved by enhancing what we call client support."
"I'm not really sure how North Cloud can be improved, but if I had to pick something, maybe some integrations with Slack or something, because it can be a bit difficult to jump around different panels."
"For North Cloud's improvement, I would suggest enhancing its AI capabilities, adding advanced AI/ML features, improving real-time cost tracking to reduce the delay between cloud usage and dashboard updates, enhancing custom reporting with a more flexible report builder, drag-and-drop functionality, SQL support, and the ability to create custom KPIs per unit, as well as deeper cloud integrations beyond Azure, AWS, and GCP to Kubernetes cost tracking, improving tagging governance, and providing automatic detection of missing and incorrect cloud tags, plus AI-based tagging recommendations and a better user experience with more modern and interactive dashboards for easier navigation for non-technical users."
"I think North Cloud could be improved with additional savings for more AWS services."
"At the beginning, the support was not very impressive."
"With their in-place optimisations, stateful set optimisation would be a great addition."
"I think they should focus more on Kubernetes features that allow on-the-fly resource allocation without the need to restart services."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Construction Company
25%
Financial Services Firm
17%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
11%
Insurance Company
30%
Construction Company
26%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Healthcare Company
7%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business12
Large Enterprise1
No data available
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with North Cloud?
I think North Cloud can be improved by enhancing what we call client support. Currently, when you need to chat with an agent, you have to go through the chatbot, which sometimes tries to solve your...
What is your primary use case for North Cloud?
I use North Cloud to optimize AWS costs and to receive alerts when costs become too high, and also to integrate it with FinOps, which helps me catch costs across the clouds I use. For example, we h...
What advice do you have for others considering North Cloud?
My advice to others looking into using North Cloud is that if you have the budget and you want to optimize the cost of AWS and Google Cloud and need a tool that does not require technical knowledge...
What needs improvement with PerfectScale?
With their in-place optimisations, stateful set optimisation would be a great addition.
 

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