How does Sedai's pricing model work?

Sedai uses a volume-based pricing model, charging customers based on the specific resources optimized (such as Kubernetes pods, ECS tasks, VMs, etc.). This ensures you only pay for what you use. All costs are transparently outlined on Sedai's pricing page, with no hidden fees. Sedai also offers a free tier and a 30-day free trial for AWS Lambda optimization. For Kubernetes environments, you can book a demo to discuss your unique needs and pricing structure.

Is there a free trial or free tier available for Sedai?

Yes, Sedai offers a free tier and a 30-day free trial for AWS Lambda optimization. This allows you to evaluate the platform's benefits without financial commitment. Sign up for the free trial here.

How can I get a custom pricing quote for my environment?

For Kubernetes and other complex environments, Sedai recommends booking a demo to discuss your specific needs and determine the best pricing structure. You can schedule a demo here.

What are Sedai's core features?

Sedai offers autonomous optimization, application-aware intelligence, proactive issue resolution, full-stack cloud coverage, safety-by-design, release intelligence, and plug-and-play implementation. These features enable Sedai to reduce cloud costs by up to 50%, improve performance, prevent outages, and deliver measurable business value.

How does Sedai ensure safe optimizations in production?

Sedai is the only cloud optimization platform patented for safe, autonomous optimizations in production. It makes gradual, incremental changes with continuous health verification and automatic rollbacks, ensuring no incidents or SLO breaches. Sedai holds eight U.S. patents for its safety mechanisms and has never caused an issue in production.

Does Sedai integrate with monitoring, CI/CD, and ITSM tools?

Yes, Sedai integrates with Prometheus, Datadog, Cloudwatch, Azure Monitor, Kubernetes autoscalers (HPA/VPA, Karpenter), CI/CD platforms (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Terraform), ITSM tools (ServiceNow, PagerDuty, Jira), notification systems, runbook automation, and serverless platforms (AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate). These integrations ensure seamless operation within your existing workflows.

What are Sedai's modes of operation?

Sedai offers Datapilot (observability), Copilot (one-click optimizations), and Autopilot (fully autonomous execution). You can start in Copilot, approving optimizations with a click, and switch to Autopilot for fully autonomous operations when ready.

How does Sedai optimize application performance?

Sedai uses patented reinforcement learning to find ideal settings for apps and infrastructure in real time, based on live data. It reduces latency by up to 75%, improves responsiveness, and proactively resolves issues before they impact users. For example, KnowBe4 reduced response time from 18.5 seconds to 80 milliseconds—a 99.5% duration reduction.

Can Sedai help prevent outages?

Yes, Sedai detects and fixes availability issues before they cause outages. It predicts future resource needs and proactively resolves performance and reliability problems, reducing failed customer interactions by up to 50%.

How does Sedai eliminate engineering toil?

Sedai automates repetitive tasks like rightsizing resources, scaling policies, and configuration management. This delivers up to 6X productivity gains, freeing engineers to focus on innovation and new product development.

How does Sedai differ from other cloud optimization platforms?

Sedai is the only platform patented for safe, autonomous optimization in production. Unlike competitors that rely on dashboards or manual recommendations, Sedai executes real-time optimizations without requiring engineer approval for every change. It uses application-aware intelligence, safety-by-design, and full-stack coverage, ensuring measurable results and zero incidents.

Why should I choose Sedai over traditional cloud management tools?

Sedai offers autonomous optimization, application-aware intelligence, and safety-by-design, transforming optimization into an always-on system. Traditional tools require manual intervention and focus on infrastructure metrics, while Sedai optimizes for application outcomes and user experience. Sedai also integrates with enterprise workflows and ensures compliance and governance.

What makes Sedai safer than other cloud optimization solutions?

Sedai is patented for safe, autonomous action, making gradual changes with continuous validation and automatic rollbacks. It has never caused an incident in production, unlike other solutions that may risk outages with all-at-once optimizations. Sedai's safety-first approach is unique in the industry.

What business impact can I expect from using Sedai?

Customers typically achieve up to 50% cloud cost reduction, 75% latency reduction, 6X productivity gains, and a financial payback in under six months. For example, KnowBe4 saved $1.2 million on AWS costs, and Palo Alto Networks saved $3.5 million. Sedai also reduces failed customer interactions by up to 50% and improves release quality.

Who can benefit from Sedai?

Sedai is ideal for IT/cloud operations, FinOps, technology leadership, platform engineering, and site reliability engineering (SRE) roles. It serves organizations in cybersecurity, financial services, healthcare, e-commerce, IT, consumer goods, and digital commerce. Sedai addresses challenges like cost optimization, performance enhancement, operational efficiency, and compliance.

What problems does Sedai solve?

Sedai solves cost inefficiencies, operational toil, performance and latency issues, lack of proactive issue resolution, complexity in multi-cloud and hybrid environments, and misaligned priorities between teams. It delivers measurable results in cost savings, performance, and productivity.

What pain points do Sedai's customers typically face?

Customers often face outcome gaps (dashboards not translating to fewer incidents), cloud spend pressure, risk and compliance concerns, tool sprawl, talent bandwidth issues, release risk, toil overload, pager fatigue, brittle automation, change control friction, fragmentation, ticket volume, config drift, hybrid complexity, and slow response to anomalies. Sedai addresses these with autonomous optimization and proactive issue resolution.

Are there any customer success stories or case studies for Sedai?

Yes, Sedai has delivered significant results for customers like KnowBe4 (50% cost savings, $1.2M saved), Palo Alto Networks ($3.5M saved), Belcorp (77% latency reduction), Campspot (34% latency reduction), Inflection, and Freshworks. Read more on Sedai's customer page.

What industries are represented in Sedai's case studies?

Sedai's case studies cover cybersecurity (Palo Alto Networks, KnowBe4), financial services (Experian), healthcare, e-commerce (Wayfair, Campspot), IT and technology (HP, Freshworks), consumer goods (Belcorp), and digital commerce (Informed).

How long does it take to implement Sedai?

Initial onboarding takes approximately 15 minutes for agentless or agent-based deployment to begin reading metrics from your environment. Additional setup for integrations may require more time depending on complexity. Sedai's plug-and-play process ensures minimal disruption.

Is Sedai easy to start and integrate with existing workflows?

Yes, Sedai offers a plug-and-play implementation process, integrates with popular APMs, notification systems, ITSM, and runbook tools, and operates autonomously, reducing management burden.

Do I need to install agents for Sedai to work?

Sedai offers both agentless and agent-based SaaS solutions. Agentless deployment securely connects to your cloud using IAM roles for Amazon EKS or Azure AD roles for Azure AKS. Agent-based deployment uses Kubernetes RBAC for secure connectivity within your environment.

Does Sedai lead to Infrastructure as Code (IaC) drift?

Sedai integrates with IaC platforms like Terraform and Helm, ensuring consistency and compliance. It updates IaC to prevent configuration drift and manages snowflake resources, maintaining alignment with your infrastructure policies.

Where can I find technical documentation for Sedai?

Sedai provides a comprehensive Getting Started Guide, Kubernetes Optimization Guide, and Platform Overview. Access these resources at docs.sedai.io/get-started and sedai.io/resources.

What security and compliance certifications does Sedai have?

Sedai is SOC 2 certified, demonstrating adherence to stringent security requirements and industry standards for data protection and compliance. For more details, visit Sedai's Security page.

How does Sedai handle rollbacks and change control?

Sedai features automatic rollbacks, incremental changes, and continuous health verification to ensure safe automation. Approvals and guardrails are built in, allowing for secure change control and compliance with enterprise requirements.

How can I get support or answers to technical questions about Sedai?

If you have a technical question not answered here, you can access Sedai's documentation at docs.sedai.io/get-started or contact Sedai directly via their website for personalized support.

Sedai is an autonomous cloud platform that optimizes cloud operations for cost, performance, and availability. It leverages machine learning to manage production environments without manual thresholds or human intervention, delivering measurable business value.

Sedai uses patented reinforcement learning to autonomously optimize cloud resources, adapt to changes in microservices, and continuously learn from previous optimizations. It acts on behalf of SREs, reducing manual toil and improving application outcomes.

What is the difference between an automated system and a truly autonomous system like Sedai?

Automated systems require manual approval or intervention for optimizations, often relying on static rules. Sedai is a truly autonomous system, executing real-time optimizations based on live application data, without manual thresholds or human oversight. Its patented safety mechanisms ensure zero incidents in production.

How does Sedai assess its impact on application performance?

Sedai measures key metrics such as latency, response time, failed customer interactions, and cloud cost reduction. For example, KnowBe4 reduced response time from 18.5 seconds to 80 milliseconds, and Palo Alto Networks saved $3.5 million in cloud costs. Sedai delivers measurable outcomes for performance and cost.

What customer logos and brands use Sedai?

Sedai is trusted by companies like KnowBe4, Palo Alto Networks, Belcorp, Campspot, Inflection, and Freshworks. These organizations have achieved measurable results in cost savings, performance improvements, and operational efficiency.

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. Please book a demo to discuss our specific pricing options & discounts.

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.

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, self-managed clusters. But our platform is unique in going way beyond K8s. Sedai also optimizes storage, data platforms, and AI/ML workloads. Check out our integrations page for the full list.

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? What if we want to roll back a change?

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 built to work alongside your existing CI/CD & GitOps workflows. Whenever Sedai optimizes a resource, it automatically opens a pull request in your Git repository reflecting the changes, keeping your IaC in sync across Terraform, Helm, & Kustomize. If your pipeline would otherwise overwrite Sedai's changes, our built-in overwrite protection (including a Kubernetes Admission Controller for GitOps tools like Argo CD or Flux) ensures optimizations are preserved, without disrupting your workflow. The result: full auditability, no hidden drift, & no rip-and-replace required.

What is the difference between an “automated” system and a truly “autonomous” system, like Sedai?

This is the #1 most important question to ask when you’re evaluating any system that will make changes in production, without a human in the loop. Automated systems follow rigid instructions & scripts: “if X, then do Y.” Meanwhile, autonomous systems make decisions in real time to achieve big-picture goals, like upholding your SLO for latency when your website traffic spikes. Sedai is able to make these intelligent, contextual decisions, because our platform uses ML to understand the behavior of your apps. For a deeper answer, check out this in-depth blog.

How do you assess Sedai’s impact on application performance? What metrics does the platform look at?

Sedai uses a combination of metrics to paint a full picture of your application behavior. This includes the “golden signals” of latency, traffic, errors, & saturation — as well as seasonal trends. Our platform integrates with your existing APM tools, and then it applies patented machine learning to develop a thorough understanding of each app & microservice.

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.

I have a technical question that isn’t answered here. Now what?

You can try asking our website chatbot. But the best way is to schedule a meeting with our team. This will be a 30-minute conversation with a technical expert, who can address any question about how Sedai works with your infrastructure and tools.

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