Cloud and SaaS cost questions, answered

Yes. CostAnalyst never asks for cloud credentials, access keys or roles. It works only from the billing export file you upload and the SaaS subscriptions you type in, and it encrypts your data in transit and at rest. To stop sharing data, you simply stop uploading, and you can ask us to delete what you uploaded. See our security page for the full posture.

No. CostAnalyst has no access to your cloud accounts or SaaS tools at all, read or write. It reads the billing export you upload and the subscription list you enter, so it cannot change anything in your environment, resize an instance, or cancel a subscription. It shows you the recommendation, and your team acts.

Never. We do not process payments, hold funds, pay invoices, or touch your cards. CostAnalyst is an analyst: it reads your spend, finds the savings, and shows you the recommendation. Every action happens in your own accounts, by your own team.

No. CostAnalyst is decision-support tooling. Its recommendations are computed from your real usage and billing data, and they are for a human on your team to review and decide. It is not financial, tax, or accounting advice.

Two ways, both under your control. Cloud spend comes from a billing export you upload: the AWS Cost and Usage Report, the Google Cloud billing export or the Azure cost export saved as CSV, or any CSV with a date, a service and a cost column. SaaS subscriptions you enter in the workspace with seats licensed, seats in use, monthly cost, renewal date and owner. CostAnalyst does not connect to your cloud accounts, SaaS admin consoles, cards or bank, and never asks for a login.

Recommendations are computed from your real usage and billing data, and every one is shown with the underlying line items so you can verify it before acting. You always see the math. A savings card like 3,420 dollars per month of idle RDS instances comes with the specific resources behind it.

The analysis runs as soon as your first billing export is uploaded. Savings opportunities and anomalies surface in the first pass, not after a month of learning. Most teams see their first quantified savings within minutes of uploading.

No. CostAnalyst does the grunt work, pulling, tagging, spotting waste and spikes, so your people spend time deciding rather than rebuilding spreadsheets. It makes a finance or FinOps person far more effective, it does not replace their judgment.

Yes for multi-cloud: on Growth and Scale you upload an export per cloud account and CostAnalyst puts AWS, GCP, and Azure in one view. Kubernetes and container services (EKS, GKE, AKS and similar) appear in that view as the services your billing export lists, with their cost and anomalies. CostAnalyst does not read inside a cluster, so it does not split cost by namespace or pod.

Transparent self-serve pricing: Starter is 59 dollars per month, Growth is 179 dollars per month and is the most popular tier, Scale is 479 dollars per month, and Enterprise is custom. Those are the yearly prices, which save 50 percent; paid monthly, the plans are 119, 359 and 959 dollars.