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PerfectScale vs Umbrella 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

PerfectScale
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
25th
Average Rating
9.4
Reviews Sentiment
1.7
Number of Reviews
3
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
Umbrella
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
6th
Average Rating
8.4
Reviews Sentiment
5.4
Number of Reviews
20
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of July 2026, in the Cloud Cost Management category, the mindshare of PerfectScale is 1.4%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Umbrella is 0.8%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Cost Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Umbrella0.8%
PerfectScale1.4%
Other97.8%
Cloud Cost Management
 

Featured Reviews

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.
Srivathsanr R. - PeerSpot reviewer
Head Of Business Finance at Zensar Technologies
Gained clearer financial governance and have improved cloud cost visibility and forecasting
I do not feel that anything needs to be changed. Umbrella is solving the purpose and is on point. The UI is intuitive and user-friendly. The learning curve is very easy. The features provided are on point. There is no downtime or challenges, and it is easy to learn and easy to use. In total, I do not feel that improvement is needed as per our organizational use case. Maybe for other organizations, they might have some suggestions, but for our organization specifically, I do not feel that they are lacking somewhere. It is already providing us the best thing. Almost everything is working as we expect. Small things we do not always point out. I feel that it works well and we do not have such problems with them specifically.

Quotes from Members

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

Pros

"PerfectScale made our Kubernetes optimization effortless; it found wasted resources, lowered our cloud costs, and improved performance almost instantly."
"Automated resource optimization using different policies based on the environment enabled the organization to achieve infrastructure cost savings."
"The cluster and workload autoscaler gives us the ability to have control over all the workloads' resources instead of managing them one by one."
"Umbrella has positively impacted my organization because it has turned a different situation around; we see at least billions of traffic being protected and classified regarding what sort of traffic is going in and out."
"Umbrella positively impacts my organization by protecting us from cybersecurity threats and malware."
"The job was done properly without getting into specific or complex situations, and it replied to our expectations."
"Umbrella has positively impacted my organization by allowing our IT team to know that our users and our remote locations are having safe traffic and lowering the risk of malicious active actions and people going to the wrong websites, giving us ease of mind."
"Anyone who is looking for a dedicated FinOps and AI anomaly detection and forecasting platform, which is good with transparent and clear costs and is also cheap compared to other solutions, can definitely give Umbrella a try."
"Umbrella is very user-friendly, the GUI is very understandable, and the traffic and detection are also fine and excellent."
"Overall, Umbrella is a great product, and I have not seen any room for improvement."
"My advice is to go ahead with Umbrella; it is a very nice product with good customer support plus a return on investment, as you are investing $1 and you are getting a value of $10."
 

Cons

"At the beginning, the support was not very impressive."
"I think they should focus more on Kubernetes features that allow on-the-fly resource allocation without the need to restart services."
"With their in-place optimisations, stateful set optimisation would be a great addition."
"Umbrella can be improved by providing something on a day-to-day basis so that users can be aware."
"Umbrella could be improved with notifications."
"Umbrella can be improved with easier migration and easier deployment, as we had to get some really specialized users in to deploy the software."
"Some aspects that my team often wishes were better include reporting depth, policy granularity, false positive whitelisting, integration with other tools, and cost considerations."
"However, there can occasionally be false positives where legitimate sites are blocked and require review or whitelisting."
"One problem is that it sometimes blocks valid URLs."
"I want to highlight one concern: Umbrella can be bypassed by using the Play Store and other applications, which is something your team could look into, as users are bypassing the filter and accessing the websites."
"I wish Umbrella could make the whole process more user-friendly."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Insurance Company
32%
Construction Company
27%
Healthcare Company
7%
Comms Service Provider
6%
Computer Software Company
15%
Outsourcing Company
12%
Manufacturing Company
10%
Construction Company
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business7
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise11
 

Questions from the Community

What needs improvement with PerfectScale?
With their in-place optimisations, stateful set optimisation would be a great addition.
What is your experience regarding pricing and costs for Umbrella?
My experience with pricing, setup costs, and licensing is neutral; it is not too good or bad, but reasonable for the market. Licensing is based on headcount in our organization, but now we need to ...
What needs improvement with Umbrella?
While Umbrella provides good visibility, reporting and dashboard customization could be improved by being more flexible, especially for management and compliance reporting. When a domain is blocked...
What is your primary use case for Umbrella?
My main use case for Umbrella involves whitelisting and blacklisting of URLs. I want to provide feedback on Umbrella as it functions. Umbrella provides strong DNS layer security and blocks maliciou...
 

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