How it works
How to reduce cloud costs, end to end
Upload your cloud billing export and list your SaaS subscriptions, let CostAnalyst find the waste in dollars, catch the anomalies before the invoice, and show the monthly run-rate. Here is exactly what happens at every step.
In one paragraph
CostAnalyst reduces cloud costs by reading the AWS, GCP, or Azure billing export you upload plus the SaaS subscriptions you list, mapping every dollar across cloud and software, then surfacing prioritized savings as line items with real figures, like $3,420 a month in idle RDS instances or 41 unused Salesforce seats. It flags spend spikes in the data you upload, splits cost by cloud account and SaaS owner, and shows the monthly run-rate. You review each recommendation and act in your own accounts. CostAnalyst never logs in to your cloud, never asks for credentials, and never moves money.
Upload your billing export
Download the cost export your cloud already produces (the AWS Cost and Usage Report or Cost Explorer CSV, the Google Cloud billing export, or the Azure cost export) and upload it as CSV. Then list your SaaS subscriptions with seats licensed, seats in use, monthly cost, renewal date and owner. No keys, no roles, no logins, so setup is fast and low-risk. Most teams finish in about 10 minutes, and you upload a fresh export whenever you want the numbers updated.
- A CSV you already have
- AWS, GCP, Azure, plus SaaS
- No access to your accounts
CostAnalyst analyzes
It maps every dollar across cloud infrastructure and software, learns your normal spend pattern per service and team, and finds the waste: idle and orphaned resources, oversized instances, unused seats, duplicate tools, and auto-renewing contracts nobody opens. The first pass runs as soon as the first export is uploaded.
- Cloud and SaaS in one view
- Learns your normal baseline
- Waste surfaced on the first pass
Get dollar recommendations
Savings surface as prioritized line items with real figures and the usage behind each one, so you can verify the math before acting. Anomaly alerts by email flag spend spikes in your uploaded data before the invoice lands, cloud cost is split by account and SaaS spend by owner, and the run-rate shows what a month costs at the current pace.
- Savings quantified in dollars
- Anomaly alerts by email
- Run-rate and spend split
You decide and act
Every recommendation is something your team reviews and acts on in your own accounts. CostAnalyst recommends, you decide. It is decision support with no access to your accounts, not financial advice, and it never makes a change in your cloud account or touches a card. Money never moves.
- You approve every action
- Acts in your own accounts
- No account access, money never moves
The guardrail
No account access and money-neutral, on purpose
We read the billing export you upload, we never change anything, and we never move money. It is the lowest-risk thing a finance team can adopt.
No access to your accounts
We ask for no role, no key and no login. CostAnalyst reads the file you upload and the list you enter, so it cannot see or change anything in your environment.
We never move money
No cards, no accounts payable, no payments, no changes in your cloud account. CostAnalyst is an analyst, not an actor. Your team acts on every recommendation.
Encrypted and yours
Uploaded data is encrypted in transit and at rest, there are no credentials to leak, and you can ask us to delete what you uploaded at any time. See our security posture for the detail.
See it live
Watch the whole flow in one console
projected this month if unattended
Spend by team
Budget forecast
See your savings in dollars
Upload your cloud billing export and watch the waste, the spikes, and the unused seats surface in dollars. Transparent pricing. Create your account and get started.