How it works
How to reduce cloud costs, end to end
Connect your cloud billing and SaaS subscriptions read-only, let Costanalyst find the waste in dollars, catch the anomalies before the invoice, and forecast the budget. Here is exactly what happens at every step.
In one paragraph
Costanalyst reduces cloud costs by connecting your AWS, GCP, and Azure billing plus your SaaS subscriptions with read-only access, 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 the day they happen, attributes every dollar to a team, and forecasts the budget. You review each recommendation and act in your own accounts. Costanalyst is read-only and never moves money.
Connect, read-only
Grant read-only access to your cloud billing (AWS Cost and Usage Report or Cost Explorer, GCP, Azure) and your SaaS subscriptions through read-only admin, SSO, or expense data. We request the minimum read scopes and never get write access, so the connection is fast and low-risk. Most teams finish in about 10 minutes.
- Read-only billing and usage
- AWS, GCP, Azure, plus SaaS
- No write access, ever
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 source connects.
- 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 flag spend spikes before the invoice lands, spend is attributed by team and project, and a budget forecast projects your end-of-quarter run-rate with the savings factored in.
- Savings quantified in dollars
- Anomaly alerts before the invoice
- Forecast and team attribution
You decide and act
Every recommendation is something your team reviews and acts on in your own accounts. Costanalyst recommends, you decide. It is read-only decision support, 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
- Read-only, money never moves
The guardrail
Read-only and money-neutral, on purpose
We read your billing and usage data, we never change anything, and we never move money. It is the lowest-risk thing a finance team can plug in.
Read-only access
We request the minimum read scopes (an AWS Cost and Usage Report or Cost Explorer read role, read-only SaaS admin or API). We cannot 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 revocable
Data is encrypted in transit and at rest, credentials are least-privilege and scoped, and you can revoke access 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
Connect your cloud and SaaS spend read-only and watch the waste, the spikes, and the unused seats surface in dollars. Transparent pricing, no card to start.