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Best Auto Scaling Software in 2026

• 24 apps
• Research read 28 Sept 2026
• How the order is worked out

1. 1

   Amazon Elastic Container Service

   Free plan APILinuxSelf-hosted+2
   7.7 Visit site
2. 2

   Azure Monitor

   Free plan APILinuxMac+2
   7.5 Free plan · 30-day trial Visit site
3. 3 K

   Knative

   Free plan APILinuxMac+2

   Knative brings service scaling, traffic management, event routing, and functions together for Kubernetes workloads.

   7.2 Open source Visit site
4. 4

   Kubernetes

   Free plan APILinuxMac+2

   Kubernetes provides a broad system for coordinating container deployment, scaling, networking, and storage. Teams should account for application-level services outside its built-in scope.

   7.2 Free plan Visit site
5. 5 O

   OpenFaaS

   Free plan APILinuxMac+3
   7.1 Free plan · paid from $1,250/mo · 14-day trial Visit site
6. 6

   Render

   Free plan APIWeb

   Render brings application, website, database, and workflow deployment options together with several runtimes and infrastructure tools.

   6.8 Free plan · paid from $25/mo Visit site
7. 7 A

   Alibaba Cloud Auto Scaling

   Free plan Web
   6.2 Free plan Visit site
8. 8

   Azure CNI

   Free plan LinuxWindows

   Azure CNI provides free container networking with policy, egress, and transit-encryption features.

   6.2 Free plan Visit site
9. 9

   CAST AI

   Free trial Self-hostedWeb

   Choose CAST AI if your platform, SRE, or FinOps team needs Kubernetes automation alongside cloud cost controls.

   6.1 Pricing on request Visit site
10. 10

    Fly.io

    Free trial APILinuxWeb

    Fly.io offers application compute alongside managed Postgres and persistent environments for agent workloads.

    6.1 From $1.94/mo · 7-day trial Visit site
11. 11

    Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service

    Paid APILinuxMac+2

    EKS combines managed Kubernetes control-plane operations with AWS compute, networking, and identity integrations.

    6.0 Free plan · paid from $1,500/mo Visit site
12. 12 A

    AWS Auto Scaling

    Free plan Web
    6.0 Free plan Visit site
13. 13

    Red Hat OpenShift Pipelines

    Free trial APILinuxSelf-hosted+1

    OpenShift Pipelines is designed for CI/CD workflows within OpenShift, with Tekton-based definitions and console management.

    6.0 Pricing on request Visit site
14. 14 K

    KEDA

    Free plan
    5.6 Free plan Visit site
15. 15 S

    ScaleOps

    Free trial Self-hostedWeb

    ScaleOps focuses on workload-aware Kubernetes resource allocation, including CPU, memory, GPU, nodes, and cost visibility.

    5.6 Pricing on request Visit site
16. 16 S

    Scaleway Serverless Containers

    Free plan Web
    5.6 Free plan Visit site
17. 17 K

    Kubernetes Vertical Pod Autoscaler

    Free plan
    5.5 Free plan Visit site
18. 18

    Heroku

    Paid APIWeb
    5.4 From $5/mo Visit site
19. 19

    DigitalOcean Kubernetes

    Paid Web

    DigitalOcean Kubernetes offers managed cluster features alongside plans for varied resource configurations.

    4.7 From $12/mo Visit site
20. 20 B

    Backup for GKE

    Paid Web
    4.3 From $9/mo Visit site
21. 21 G

    Google Cloud autoscaler

    Paid Web
    4.2 Visit site
22. 22 S

    Scaleway Instance Groups

    Paid Web
    3.9 Visit site
23. 23 S

    StormForge Optimize Live

    Paid Web
    3.9 From $0.00 · 30-day trial Visit site
24. 24 T

    Tencent Cloud Bare Metal Server

    Paid Web
    3.8 Pricing on request Visit site

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