Cast AI

Application Performance Automation Platform

Cast AI Overview

Application Performance Automation Platform

Most automation tools don't put performance at the center. Many stop at providing visibility, or go no further than alerts and recommendations. Cloud cost dashboards show waste but don't fix it, monitoring platforms deliver warnings but don't take actual action, and resource optimization tools suggest changes but leave execution up to the user.

Cast AI is an Application Performance Automation platform that goes beyond simply managing costs — it automates them and directly resolves inefficiencies. Rather than just tuning Kubernetes, it enables autonomous operation and automatically delivers real-time, application-centric performance. This allows organizations to achieve cost reduction, performance improvement, and productivity gains all at once.

Why Cast AI

Applications require continuous tuning, but operations teams struggle to keep up with that pace. Most tools stop at identifying the problem, leaving the actual fix to be carried out manually, again and again, by people. The result is the same issues being handled by hand over and over — sometimes into the early hours of the morning.

Overcoming this limitation requires an approach that goes beyond mere visibility or recommendations, one that can automatically optimize actual operations.

Cast AI delivers full-stack optimization from a single platform, automating operations without manual intervention. It performs continuous, real-time optimization based on actual workload behavior — and rather than simply showing what needs to be fixed, it carries out the execution automatically as well. You no longer need to rely on tickets or alerts; operations can be improved automatically instead.

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One Platform. Full-Stack Optimization. Zero Manual Work.

Cast AI performs continuous, real-time optimization based on actual workload behavior. Rather than simply showing what needs to be fixed, it automatically executes the necessary actions. You can automate operations without relying on repetitive tickets or alerts.

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The Performance Engine for Cloud-Native Applications

While traditional automation relies on static rules, Cast AI uses predictive models trained on real operational data. Drawing on data accumulated across thousands of clusters and diverse workloads, it understands application demand and automatically determines optimal resource operation.

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From Connection to Optimization in Just Minutes

It can be applied directly to Kubernetes clusters with no separate infrastructure changes, and can even start in read-only mode. It identifies optimization opportunities based on real workloads, automatically scales in response to real-time signals, and maintains a stable state.

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Integrates Seamlessly with Your Existing Tools

Cast AI connects flexibly with the tools and environments you already use — including Grafana, Terraform, Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, Helm, and Pulumi — allowing you to extend automation while keeping your existing operational setup intact.

Infrastructure Optimization

Autonomous Kubernetes Workload Optimization

Autonomously optimize your Kubernetes workloads.

Run cost-efficient workloads at peak performance with Cast AI's intelligent workload optimization.

Instantly right-size workloads and operate without downtime, with in-place pod resizing and Live Migration(™), which preserves uptime for stateful workloads. Real-time cost visibility and autonomous stability enhancements are also included.

Kubernetes Cost Monitoring

Track Kubernetes costs with ease.

Manage your Kubernetes costs for free, and take advantage of detailed real-time tracking by namespace, workload, and resource allocation group.

Visualize network and cost usage, detect and respond to cost anomalies in real time, and integrate easily with your existing monitoring environment through API integration.

GPU Optimization - OMNI Compute

Scale capacity anywhere. Operate GPUs as one system.

OMNI Compute for AI enables AI teams to operate scarce GPU and compute capacity across clouds and regions within the same Kubernetes cluster, allowing them to scale anywhere without restructuring applications or adding operational overhead.

AI Optimization

AI Coding and Inference Within Enterprise Security Boundaries

Run self-hosted LLMs at low cost.

Kimchi enables enterprises to run frontier AI coding and inference within their own infrastructure, built on the model routing, governance, and cost control capabilities enterprises require.

It manages the AI coding tools and LLM requests developers use within the enterprise's operational standards, efficiently connecting self-hosted LLMs with the models needed, enabling an AI development environment that accounts for security, cost, and productivity together.

Data Sovereignty

Your cloud. Your data. Your rules.

Open source models run inside the customer's own cloud accounts, such as AWS, GCP, and Azure. Prompts, responses, and code never leave the customer's cloud.

Governance and Guardrails

Prevent unauthorized merges. Prevent secret leaks. Prevent unexpected cost spikes.

Every coding agent in the organization is routed through Kimchi Proxy. Budgets, PII filtering, usage metrics, and an approved skill registry are applied before requests reach the model, and all of this can be reviewed in the Kimchi web app.

Cost Visibility

See exactly who is incurring AI costs, on what, and where.

View usage in real time by developer, team, model, and tag. Forecast costs before scaling, and reduce the situations where you only find out about costs after seeing the bill on the 1st of each month.

Hybrid Model Routing

You don't need to pay architect-level costs for every task.

Use powerful models for reasoning, and route execution tasks to cheaper self-hosted open source models. Hybrid mode captures the benefits of both approaches, with routing decisions made automatically.

Easy Migration

Switch from your existing AI tools with a single command.

kimchi setup automatically detects Claude Code, Cursor, Continue, VS Code, and Windsurf, and automatically migrates endpoints. It supports OpenAI-compatible APIs, so no code changes are needed. You can start with Kimchi Serverless and switch to self-hosting at any time based on compliance or cost requirements. It automatically detects already-installed coding tools and supports migration by simply changing the base URL while keeping the same SDK and workflow. MCP servers, skills, and settings can also be migrated with a single prompt, and switching to a self-hosted environment requires only a single configuration flag.

Application optimization

Autonomous Database Optimization

Optimize your database and deploy in minutes.

No coding or configuration required—experience faster queries and improved performance.

Automatically optimize query caching and TTLs, support multiple operating modes, and get reliability and visibility together through automatic database discovery and built-in failover.

Autoscaler

Taking Karpenter a Step Further

Enabling AI agents to run Karpenter more intelligently and autonomously.

Karpenter helps you get started, and Cast AI completes the next step. It adds enterprise-grade optimization capabilities to your existing Karpenter environment, improving performance, cost, and stability all at once.

It identifies optimization opportunities through real-time cost visibility and workload-level analysis, and improves operational efficiency through usage-based resource tuning, zero-downtime container migration, and node consolidation that accounts for workload characteristics. It also predicts spot interruptions in advance and automatically recovers from them, enabling consistently stable operations.

Easy Onboarding, Gradual Adoption

Start optimizing in minutes and scale at your own pace. Activate features whenever you're ready. Connect your cluster in just two clicks and instantly see potential cost savings. Enable workload optimization, spot adoption, and other features as needed.

Advanced Cluster and Node Optimization

Add optimization capabilities that Karpenter can't handle on its own. Reduce waste, increase efficiency, and cut costs automatically. Rebalance and migrate workloads with no downtime or dropped connections. Automatically hibernate dev and staging clusters to reduce idle-time waste.

Zero-Downtime Container Live Migration

For stateful applications and long-running jobs, move running workloads between nodes without interruption. Enable migration of workloads previously considered unmovable, based on persistent storage. Eliminate node fragmentation to enable advanced bin-packing and keep critical applications running.

Continuous Workload Optimization

Observe actual resource consumption and automatically adjust requests to eliminate hidden waste caused by over-requested resources. Reduce over-provisioning without compromising application stability. Give Karpenter accurate requirements to enable tighter bin-packing.

Reliable Spot Usage and Smarter Consolidation

Keep workloads on spot instances instead of defaulting to on-demand, and consolidate underutilized nodes without excessive disruption. Anticipate interruptions and return workloads to spot once capacity stabilizes. Consolidate by combining workload-aware logic with live migration.

Real-Time Cost Visibility

Track spending in real time and demonstrate value through detailed cost monitoring across your Kubernetes infrastructure. Monitor compute costs in real time by cluster, namespace, and workload. Quantify the savings from each optimization decision by comparing current spend against a baseline.

Automated Kubernetes Cluster Optimization

Maximize cost savings while reducing operational burden.

Get unified monitoring of resource usage across your organization and at the cluster level, with a stable operational foundation built on automated resource allocation and zero-downtime scaling.

Keep clusters running at their optimal state through spot instance automation, workload consolidation, dynamic pod configuration adjustments, and cluster rebalancing, while managing performance and cost in balance through memory issue handling and vertical/horizontal autoscaling.

Cluster Autoscaler

Reduce waste and maximize resource utilization through bin configuration and space allocation planning. Automatically provision the most cost-efficient compute resources. Scale resources up or down based on real-time requirements.

Zero-Downtime Container Live Migration

For stateful applications and long-running jobs, move running workloads between nodes without interruption while performing maintenance and optimizing costs. Enable migration of workloads previously considered unmovable, based on persistent storage. Eliminate node fragmentation to enable advanced bin-packing and keep critical applications running.

Zero-Downtime Container Live Migration

For stateful applications and long-running jobs, move running workloads between nodes without interruption. Enable migration of workloads previously considered unmovable, based on persistent storage. Eliminate node fragmentation to enable advanced bin-packing and keep critical applications running.

Continuous Workload Optimization

Observe actual resource consumption and automatically adjust requests to eliminate hidden waste caused by over-requested resources. Reduce over-provisioning without compromising application stability. Give Karpenter accurate requirements to enable tighter bin-packing.

Commitment Utilization

Maximize the value of your investment by increasing resource utilization: Use commitments across all clusters, or prioritize commitments for specific clusters. Automatically balance commitment and spot instance usage to achieve maximum cost savings.

Spot Instance Automation

Solve the challenges of spot instance management and interruptions that can occur every 2 minutes. Maintain a balance between cost and stability with advanced spot instance management capabilities. Automatically handle spot instance lifecycle events, including interruptions, spot diversity, and fallback to on-demand nodes when needed.

Cast AI Customers

Cast AI is trusted by more than 2,100 companies worldwide. Take a look at some key customer stories.

Technology

Akamai

Reduced cloud costs by 40–70% and improved engineering productivity.

Automotive

Mercedes-Benz.io

Cut Kubernetes operational overhead and costs through automation.

iGaming

Bede Gaming

Automatically optimized K8s workloads with no risk of performance degradation.