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PerfectScale vs Umbrella comparison

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Categories and Ranking

PerfectScale
Ranking in Cloud Cost Management
22nd
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
5.1
Number of Reviews
22
Ranking in other categories
No ranking in other categories
 

Mindshare comparison

As of October 2026, in the Cloud Cost Management category, the mindshare of PerfectScale is 1.9%, up from 0.2% compared to the previous year. The mindshare of Umbrella is 0.8%, up from 0.3% compared to the previous year. It is calculated based on PeerSpot user engagement data.
Cloud Cost Management Mindshare Distribution
ProductMindshare (%)
Umbrella0.8%
PerfectScale1.9%
Other97.3%
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

"The cluster and workload autoscaler gives us the ability to have control over all the workloads' resources instead of managing them one by one."
"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."
"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."
"The software itself is very helpful for companies that are into enterprise systems and helps give you a very good modeling of what your request and your mission and vision is for your company, making the process seamless and more effective."
"Umbrella includes DNS-layer security, a secure web gateway, Cloud Access Security Broker, Firewall as a Service, and a central-based dashboard, all delivered through the cloud without requiring any hardware."
"Umbrella has positively impacted my organization by significantly improving web security and reducing exposure."
"Umbrella has positively impacted our organization by blocking some of the traffic, including some of the domains that were usually being generated."
"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 has positively impacted my organization by ensuring that if anyone wants to access any of the URLs, the URL will be blocked, and if they want to access that particular URL, it needs to be whitelisted."
"Before using Umbrella, we had a lot of complaints about users accessing websites and malware being downloaded onto the user's device, but after using Umbrella, issues related to malware have really reduced, and we are now fully satisfied."
 

Cons

"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."
"At the beginning, the support was not very impressive."
"The user interface of Umbrella needs to provide more feasibility for understanding easily, as well as clearer details in the reports."
"Umbrella can be improved by adding DHCP services to be a full DDI solution, as most customers today are looking for a full DDI solution."
"I think Umbrella is a good tool, but it needs to be improved, especially because of the most recent scenario of AI-driven attacks."
"Umbrella could be improved with notifications."
"I think Umbrella can be improved regarding AI capabilities."
"A ten would be the case where we would never encounter any issues, or the proactive work would be really well done without any problems."
"Umbrella can be improved by providing something on a day-to-day basis so that users can be aware."
"Umbrella can be improved with easier migration and easier deployment, as we had to get some really specialized users in to deploy the software."
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Top Industries

By visitors reading reviews
Insurance Company
29%
Construction Company
25%
Comms Service Provider
10%
Outsourcing Company
7%
Outsourcing Company
14%
Computer Software Company
13%
Construction Company
10%
Comms Service Provider
9%
 

Company Size

By reviewers
Large Enterprise
Midsize Enterprise
Small Business
No data available
By reviewers
Company SizeCount
Small Business6
Midsize Enterprise3
Large Enterprise14
 

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?
The cost aspect is not something I focus on because security is something that cannot be equated to money when it comes to security. Time saved is significant. With a firewall, the slowness of site...
What needs improvement with Umbrella?
To improve Umbrella, I think that every application needs ongoing improvements over time because technology continuously updates; sometimes, Umbrella disconnects automatically without any notificat...
What is your primary use case for Umbrella?
My main use case for Umbrella is for VPN purposes, and we are also using Cisco Meraki for our network. One specific example of how I use Umbrella for VPN purposes in my daily work is that we have r...
 

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