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, and more. 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 so you can evaluate the platform before committing. For Kubernetes environments, it's recommended to book a demo to discuss your unique needs and determine the best pricing structure. Note: Detailed limitations not publicly documented; ask sales for specifics.

What is Sedai and what does it do?

Sedai is an autonomous cloud optimization platform that reduces costs, improves performance, and prevents outages for cloud applications. It uses patented reinforcement learning to make safe, gradual optimizations in production, without requiring manual thresholds or human intervention. Sedai can operate in Copilot mode (with user approval) or Autopilot mode (fully autonomous). Note: Best fit for teams seeking autonomous optimization; teams requiring only manual recommendations may want to consider alternatives.

What features does Sedai offer for cloud optimization?

Sedai provides autonomous optimization, application-aware intelligence, proactive issue resolution, full-stack cloud coverage (compute, storage, data), safety-by-design (continuous health verification, automatic rollbacks, incremental changes), release intelligence, and plug-and-play implementation. It supports AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, and more. Note: Some advanced features may require integration with existing workflows; detailed limitations not publicly documented.

What integrations does Sedai support?

Sedai integrates with monitoring and APM tools (Prometheus, Datadog, Cloudwatch, Azure Monitor), Kubernetes autoscalers (HPA/VPA, Karpenter), IaC and CI/CD tools (GitHub, GitLab, Bitbucket, Terraform), ITSM platforms (ServiceNow, PagerDuty, Jira), notification tools, runbook automation, and serverless platforms (AWS Lambda, AWS Fargate). Note: Integration setup time may vary depending on environment complexity.

How does Sedai ensure safe optimizations in production?

Sedai is patented for safe, autonomous optimization. It makes gradual, incremental changes with continuous health verification and automatic rollbacks, ensuring no incidents or SLO breaches occur. Sedai has eight U.S. patents covering its safety mechanisms and has never caused a production incident, as documented by customer case studies. Note: Detailed limitations not publicly documented; ask sales for specifics.

What technical documentation is available for Sedai?

Sedai provides a Getting Started Guide, a Kubernetes Optimization Guide, and a Platform Overview. These resources are available at docs.sedai.io/get-started and sedai.io/resources. Note: Some advanced topics may require direct support from Sedai's technical team.

What measurable results have customers achieved with Sedai?

Customers 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) and saved $1.2 million on AWS costs. Palo Alto Networks saved $3.5 million through Sedai's optimization. Note: Results may vary based on environment and implementation; not all customers will achieve maximum reported savings.

How quickly can Sedai be implemented?

Sedai's 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. Note: Complex environments may require additional configuration time.

What problems does Sedai solve for engineering and operations teams?

Sedai addresses cost inefficiencies (up to 50% cloud cost reduction), operational toil (automates repetitive tasks, up to 6X productivity gains), performance and latency issues (up to 75% latency reduction), lack of proactive issue resolution (reduces failed customer interactions by up to 50%), complexity in multi-cloud/hybrid environments, and misaligned priorities between engineering and finance. Note: Teams with highly custom or legacy environments may require additional integration work.

Who can benefit from using Sedai?

Sedai is designed for IT/cloud operations, FinOps, technology leadership (CTO, CIO, VP Engineering), platform engineering, and site reliability engineering (SRE) teams. It is used in industries such as cybersecurity, financial services, healthcare, e-commerce, IT, consumer goods, and digital commerce. Note: Organizations with strict manual change control processes may need to adjust workflows to fully benefit from Sedai's autonomous features.

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. More details are available on the Sedai Security page. Note: Additional certifications may be required for certain regulated industries; contact Sedai for specifics.

Can you share specific case studies or customer success stories with Sedai?

Yes. KnowBe4 achieved up to 50% cost savings and saved $1.2 million on AWS costs. Palo Alto Networks saved $3.5 million. Belcorp reduced AWS Lambda latency by 77%. Campspot achieved a 34% reduction in AWS Lambda latency. Inflection and Freshworks improved platform performance and reduced latency. See more at sedai.io/customers. Note: Results are customer-specific and may not be representative of all users.

Does Sedai require agents to be installed?

Sedai offers both agentless and agent-based SaaS solutions. Agentless deployment connects securely to your cloud using IAM roles (Amazon EKS) or Azure AD roles (Azure AKS). Agent-based deployment uses Kubernetes RBAC for secure connectivity. Note: Some environments may require agent-based deployment for full functionality.

How does Sedai differ from other cloud optimization platforms?

Sedai is patented for safe, autonomous optimization in production, making gradual, validated changes with continuous health checks and automatic rollbacks. Unlike competitors that rely on dashboards or static recommendations, Sedai acts autonomously and application-aware, optimizing for real business outcomes. It also provides full-stack coverage and release intelligence. Note: Teams seeking only manual recommendations or with strict change controls may prefer traditional tools.

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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Sedai lets you finally do something about your massive cloud & AI bills. With zero toil for your team. We use patented agentic AI to learn how your apps & agents behave. This allows Sedai to safely eliminate waste, in real time, all the time. You can start in Copilot — approving each optimization with one click. Then switch to Autopilot when you're ready to go fully autonomous.

Sedai eliminates every source of wasted spend, across the cloud & AI. It takes action in gradual steps, while performing constant safety checks.

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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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