diff --git a/cluster-autoscaler/main.go b/cluster-autoscaler/main.go
index 49df4b5bd7c1..440010b20f3c 100644
--- a/cluster-autoscaler/main.go
+++ b/cluster-autoscaler/main.go
@@ -31,6 +31,7 @@ import (
 
 	metav1 "k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/apis/meta/v1"
 	cloudBuilder "k8s.io/autoscaler/cluster-autoscaler/cloudprovider/builder"
+	"k8s.io/autoscaler/cluster-autoscaler/cloudprovider/openshiftmachineapi"
 	"k8s.io/autoscaler/cluster-autoscaler/config"
 	"k8s.io/autoscaler/cluster-autoscaler/core"
 	"k8s.io/autoscaler/cluster-autoscaler/estimator"
@@ -281,6 +282,14 @@ func buildAutoscaler() (core.Autoscaler, error) {
 		processors.NodeGroupSetProcessor = &nodegroupset.BalancingNodeGroupSetProcessor{
 			Comparator: nodegroupset.IsGkeNodeInfoSimilar}
 
+	}
+	if autoscalingOptions.CloudProviderName == openshiftmachineapi.ProviderName {
+		// We do this because of:
+		// - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1731011
+		// - https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1733235
+		processors.NodeGroupSetProcessor = &nodegroupset.BalancingNodeGroupSetProcessor{
+			Comparator: nodegroupset.IsOpenShiftMachineApiNodeInfoSimilar}
+
 	}
 	opts := core.AutoscalerOptions{
 		AutoscalingOptions: autoscalingOptions,
diff --git a/cluster-autoscaler/processors/nodegroupset/openshiftmachineapi_compare_nodegroups.go b/cluster-autoscaler/processors/nodegroupset/openshiftmachineapi_compare_nodegroups.go
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..73424943f831
--- /dev/null
+++ b/cluster-autoscaler/processors/nodegroupset/openshiftmachineapi_compare_nodegroups.go
@@ -0,0 +1,90 @@
+package nodegroupset
+
+import (
+	apiv1 "k8s.io/api/core/v1"
+	"k8s.io/apimachinery/pkg/api/resource"
+	schedulernodeinfo "k8s.io/kubernetes/pkg/scheduler/nodeinfo"
+)
+
+// maxMemoryDifferenceInKiloBytes describes how much
+// Node.Status.Capacity can differ but still be considered equal.
+var maxMemoryDifferenceInKiloBytes = resource.MustParse("128Ki")
+
+// IsOpenShiftMachineApiNodeInfoSimilar compares if two nodes should
+// be considered part of the same NodeGroupSet.
+func IsOpenShiftMachineApiNodeInfoSimilar(n1, n2 *schedulernodeinfo.NodeInfo) bool {
+	return isOpenShiftNodeInfoSimilar(n1, n2)
+}
+
+// Note: this is a copy of isNodeInfoSimilar() and the only change is
+// to tolerate a small memory capacity difference.
+func isOpenShiftNodeInfoSimilar(n1, n2 *schedulernodeinfo.NodeInfo) bool {
+	capacity := make(map[apiv1.ResourceName][]resource.Quantity)
+	allocatable := make(map[apiv1.ResourceName][]resource.Quantity)
+	free := make(map[apiv1.ResourceName][]resource.Quantity)
+	nodes := []*schedulernodeinfo.NodeInfo{n1, n2}
+	for _, node := range nodes {
+		for res, quantity := range node.Node().Status.Capacity {
+			capacity[res] = append(capacity[res], quantity)
+		}
+		for res, quantity := range node.Node().Status.Allocatable {
+			allocatable[res] = append(allocatable[res], quantity)
+		}
+		requested := node.RequestedResource()
+		for res, quantity := range (&requested).ResourceList() {
+			freeRes := node.Node().Status.Allocatable[res].DeepCopy()
+			freeRes.Sub(quantity)
+			free[res] = append(free[res], freeRes)
+		}
+	}
+
+	// For capacity we allow quantities to be within a few Kb
+	// because we find that some cloud instances are slightly
+	// smaller/larger than other, typically 8-16Ki.
+	// See:
+	// https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1731011
+	// https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1733235
+	for _, qtyList := range capacity {
+		if len(qtyList) != 2 || !compareResourceEqualWithTolerance(qtyList[0], qtyList[1], maxMemoryDifferenceInKiloBytes) {
+			return false
+		}
+	}
+	// For allocatable and free we allow resource quantities to be within a few % of each other
+	if !compareResourceMapsWithTolerance(allocatable, MaxAllocatableDifferenceRatio) {
+		return false
+	}
+	if !compareResourceMapsWithTolerance(free, MaxFreeDifferenceRatio) {
+		return false
+	}
+
+	ignoredLabels := map[string]bool{
+		apiv1.LabelHostname:                   true,
+		apiv1.LabelZoneFailureDomain:          true,
+		apiv1.LabelZoneRegion:                 true,
+		"beta.kubernetes.io/fluentd-ds-ready": true, // this is internal label used for determining if fluentd should be installed as deamon set. Used for migration 1.8 to 1.9.
+	}
+
+	labels := make(map[string][]string)
+	for _, node := range nodes {
+		for label, value := range node.Node().ObjectMeta.Labels {
+			ignore, _ := ignoredLabels[label]
+			if !ignore {
+				labels[label] = append(labels[label], value)
+			}
+		}
+	}
+	for _, labelValues := range labels {
+		if len(labelValues) != 2 || labelValues[0] != labelValues[1] {
+			return false
+		}
+	}
+	return true
+}
+
+func compareResourceEqualWithTolerance(x, y, tolerance resource.Quantity) bool {
+	x.Sub(y)
+	if x.Sign() == -1 {
+		x.Neg()
+	}
+	return x.Cmp(tolerance) != 1 // <= max
+}