How does Sedai's pricing model work?

Sedai uses a volume-based pricing model, meaning you pay based on the specific resources optimized—such as Kubernetes pods, ECS tasks, VMs, and more. This ensures you only pay for what you use, making pricing transparent and scalable. All costs are clearly outlined on Sedai's pricing page, with no hidden fees. For Kubernetes environments, you can book a demo to discuss your unique needs and determine the best pricing structure.

Does Sedai offer a free trial or free tier?

Yes, Sedai offers a free tier to help users get started and evaluate the platform. Additionally, a 30-day free trial is available, allowing you to experience the platform's benefits firsthand without financial commitment.

Are there any hidden fees with Sedai's pricing?

No, Sedai's pricing is fully transparent. All costs are clearly outlined on the pricing page, with no hidden fees.

How can I get a custom quote for my environment?

You can schedule a demo with Sedai to discuss your specific setup and requirements. This allows the team to provide a tailored quote based on your environment and optimization needs. Book a demo here.

What is Sedai and what does it do?

Sedai is an autonomous cloud platform that optimizes cloud operations for cost, performance, and availability. It uses patented reinforcement learning to safely reduce costs, improve performance, and prevent outages in real time—without manual intervention. Sedai learns what your applications actually need, eliminating waste while protecting performance and availability.

What are Sedai's core features?

Sedai's core features include 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, improve performance, automate routine tasks, and ensure safe, auditable changes.

How does Sedai ensure safe optimizations in production?

Sedai is the only cloud optimization platform with patented technology 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 has never caused a production issue—a promise backed by eight U.S. patents.

What integrations does Sedai offer?

Sedai integrates with popular tools such as Prometheus, Datadog, Cloudwatch, Azure Monitor, GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Terraform, ServiceNow, PagerDuty, Jira, and more. These integrations ensure Sedai fits seamlessly into your existing workflows for monitoring, CI/CD, ITSM, notifications, and runbook automation.

How does Sedai handle release intelligence?

Sedai tracks changes in cost, latency, and errors for each deployment, connecting software releases directly to their real-world impact. This enables teams to see how deployments affect cost, performance, and system risk, ensuring smoother releases and minimizing risks.

Does Sedai require agents to be installed?

Sedai offers both agentless and agent-based SaaS solutions. The agentless option securely connects to your cloud using IAM roles (for Amazon EKS) or Azure AD roles (for Azure AKS). The agent-based option uses Kubernetes RBAC for secure connectivity within your environment. Both options are designed for quick, secure onboarding.

How does Sedai prevent configuration drift with IaC?

Sedai integrates with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform and Helm, ensuring that all optimizations are consistent with your IaC definitions. This prevents configuration drift and maintains compliance with your organization's standards.

What technical documentation is available for Sedai?

Sedai provides comprehensive technical documentation, including a Getting Started Guide, Kubernetes Optimization Guide, and a detailed Platform Overview. Access these resources at docs.sedai.io and the resources page.

What measurable results have customers achieved with Sedai?

Customers using Sedai have achieved up to 50% reduction in cloud costs, 75% fewer failed customer interactions, and 50% reduction in engineering toil. For example, KnowBe4 reduced their average response time from 18.5 seconds to 80 milliseconds—a 99.5% duration reduction. Real-time services have seen a 30% reduction in latency.

What business impact can I expect from using Sedai?

Sedai delivers significant business impact, including up to 50% cloud cost reduction, 75% latency reduction, 6X productivity gains, and improved release quality. Customers typically achieve ROI greater than 400% and financial payback in under six months. For example, KnowBe4 saved $1.2 million and Palo Alto Networks saved $3.5 million on cloud costs.

Can you share specific customer success stories?

Yes. KnowBe4 achieved 50% cost savings and saved $1.2 million on AWS costs. Palo Alto Networks saved $3.5 million and described Sedai's system as 'transformative.' Belcorp reduced AWS Lambda latency by 77%, and Campspot achieved a 34% reduction in latency.

What industries use Sedai?

Sedai is used across industries such as 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 does Sedai measure and improve application performance?

Sedai continuously monitors application metrics such as latency, response time, and failed customer interactions. It uses real-time data to find optimal settings for your apps and infrastructure, resulting in measurable improvements like a 30% reduction in latency and up to 75% performance gains.

How does Sedai help reduce engineering toil?

Sedai automates repetitive tasks such as rightsizing resources, scaling policies, and configuration management. This reduces engineering toil by up to 50%, allowing teams to focus on innovation instead of manual optimizations and firefighting issues.

How does Sedai differ from other cloud optimization tools?

Sedai is the only platform with patented, safe, autonomous optimization in production. Unlike competitors that rely on dashboards, static recommendations, or risky all-at-once changes, Sedai makes gradual, validated optimizations with continuous health checks and automatic rollbacks. It focuses on application outcomes, not just infrastructure metrics, and provides full-stack coverage.

Why should I choose Sedai over other solutions?

Sedai stands out for its patented safety, autonomous action, application-aware intelligence, proactive issue resolution, and enterprise-grade governance. It is trusted by leading companies like Palo Alto Networks, HP, and Experian, and has never caused a production incident. Sedai's always-on optimization delivers measurable results without manual intervention.

What makes Sedai safer than other cloud optimization platforms?

Sedai is the only platform with eight U.S. patents for safe, autonomous action in production. It performs continuous health verification, incremental changes, and automatic rollbacks, ensuring no incidents or SLO breaches. This safety-by-design approach is unique to Sedai and trusted by global enterprises.

How does Sedai's autonomous optimization compare to traditional automation?

Traditional automation relies on static rules and manual approvals, which can be risky and require constant oversight. Sedai's autonomous optimization continuously learns from application behavior, makes gradual changes, and validates safety in real time—eliminating the need for manual intervention and reducing risk.

What awards or recognition has Sedai received?

Sedai ranks #1 in key features for Kubernetes management, as recognized by GigaOm Radar (2026). This highlights Sedai's leadership in safe, autonomous cloud optimization.

Who can benefit from using Sedai?

Sedai is ideal for IT/cloud operations, FinOps, technology leadership, platform engineering, and site reliability engineering (SRE) teams. It is used by organizations focused on cost optimization, performance, reliability, compliance, and operational efficiency across industries like cybersecurity, finance, healthcare, e-commerce, and technology.

What problems does Sedai solve for engineering teams?

Sedai eliminates engineering toil by automating repetitive tasks such as rightsizing, scaling, and configuration management. It proactively resolves issues, reduces ticket volume, and bridges the gap between monitoring and action—freeing engineers to focus on innovation.

How does Sedai help with cloud cost optimization?

Sedai reduces cloud costs by up to 50% through autonomous optimization, rightsizing workloads, and eliminating waste. It continuously monitors and adjusts resources to ensure cost efficiency without sacrificing performance or availability.

How does Sedai improve application performance and availability?

Sedai finds the ideal settings for your applications and infrastructure in real time, based on live data. It detects and fixes availability issues before they cause outages and predicts future resource needs, ensuring high performance and reliability.

How does Sedai address compliance and security requirements?

Sedai is SOC 2 certified, demonstrating adherence to stringent security and compliance standards. It integrates with enterprise workflows, including IaC, ITSM, and CI/CD pipelines, ensuring safe, auditable, and compliant changes.

What pain points does Sedai solve for FinOps teams?

Sedai helps FinOps teams by converting visibility into actionable savings, reconciling multi-cloud complexity, aligning engineering and financial goals, and automating cost-saving recommendations. This enables predictable, efficient cloud spend and rapid anomaly resolution.

How does Sedai help with SRE challenges?

Sedai prevents SLO breaches, reduces noisy alerts, automates scaling and capacity tweaks, and proactively resolves issues before they impact users. This reduces pager fatigue and allows SREs to focus on higher-value work.

How long does it take to implement Sedai?

Initial onboarding with Sedai 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 your environment's complexity.

How easy is it to get started with Sedai?

Sedai offers a plug-and-play implementation process, ensuring minimal disruption during onboarding. It works with your existing tools and workflows, and operates autonomously, reducing the need for manual oversight. A free Proof of Value is available to help you evaluate the platform.

What are the agentless and agent-based deployment options?

Sedai provides both agentless and agent-based SaaS deployment options. Agentless connects securely to your cloud using IAM roles (Amazon EKS) or Azure AD roles (Azure AKS). Agent-based uses Kubernetes RBAC for secure connectivity within your environment. Both are designed for quick, secure onboarding.

How does Sedai integrate with CI/CD pipelines?

Sedai integrates with CI/CD tools such as GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, and Terraform, enabling seamless optimization as part of your deployment workflows. This ensures that optimizations are consistent with your code and infrastructure changes.

Where can I find technical support or ask additional questions?

If you have technical questions not answered here, you can access Sedai's documentation at docs.sedai.io or contact the support team via the website for personalized assistance.

Is Sedai SOC 2 certified?

Yes, Sedai is SOC 2 certified, demonstrating its commitment to high standards of security and compliance. This certification ensures Sedai meets industry standards for data protection and compliance.

How does Sedai ensure data security?

Sedai follows strict security protocols, including SOC 2 certification, secure cloud connectivity, and integration with enterprise governance workflows. All optimizations are auditable and compliant with your organization's security requirements.

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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Cut Cloud Costs Without Breaking Prod.

Engineering teams trust Sedai to safely optimize the cloud. Our platform learns what your applications actually need — so you can eliminate waste without risking performance.

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Sedai is the only safe way to optimize your cloud. Our platform uses patented reinforcement learning to reduce costs, improve performance, & prevent outages. In real time. All the time. You can start in Copilot — approving optimizations with a click. Then switch to Autopilot when you're ready for fully autonomous operations.

Sedai eliminates every source of waste in your cloud. It takes action in gradual steps — using a patented process to validate safety.

Sedai finds the ideal settings for your apps & infrastructure, in real time, based on live data. It lets you deliver the best possible user experience.

Sedai detects & fixes availability issues — before they cause outages. It even predicts how your resource needs will change in the future.

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The world’s coolest companies love Sedai. Palo Alto Networks. Avis. Experian. HP. These customers trust our platform to manage their critical infrastructure — because we’ve never caused an issue. Never. You can hire an army of SREs. Or you can turn on Sedai.

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Sedai is the Safe Way

(Because we literally patented safety.)

Yes, there are other solutions for cloud optimization. No, they’re not safe. Sedai has eight U.S. patents on the ability to take autonomous action, without ever causing an incident in production. Zero. That’s a promise only we can make.

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So engineers can bring new products to life.

Today, engineering teams are still stuck doing repetitive tasks,  like rightsizing resources and firefighting issues. We built Sedai to eliminate this toil — so we can all focus on building new things. Because we’re engineers, too.

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