Cost explorer
Ask about spend in the terms your business uses
One explorer over every bill. Pick a period, group by business unit, team, application, service, account or a promoted tag, and read amortized, billed or list cost. The numbers match the dashboards and the invoice because they come from the same certified dataset.
Each cloud answers in its own console
Three consoles, three vocabularies:
AWS, Azure and Google Cloud name the same thing differently, so cross-cloud questions end in a spreadsheet.Accounts are not owners:
Provider consoles group by account and service, not by the business unit or team that pays.Every answer is rebuilt by hand:
The same monthly question is asked again each month, and each time someone exports and pivots it.
Group and filter
Group by business unit or by any FOCUS field
Business dimensions from your mappings sit next to FOCUS fields such as provider, service, region, account and charge category. Promoted tag keys become columns too. Filters combine across all of them, and the top N groups are kept with the rest summed as Other, so the rows still add up to the total.
- Business unit, cost center, team, application, environment
- Provider, service, region, account, charge category
- Amortized, billed or list cost
Saved views and email
Save the question once and receive the answer every month
Save a view as private or share it with your organization. Add recipients and a weekly or monthly schedule. Each recipient's copy is computed within their own scope, so a team owner receives their team's figures and nothing else.
- Private or shared views
- Weekly or monthly email
- CSV export of any breakdown
Why cloud bills need owners
of organizations call managing cloud spend their top cloud challenge
Flexera, State of the Cloud 2025in open savings found at our sample company
Sample company, not a customer result
Which number
Three cost views of the same lines
| View | What it shows | Use it for |
|---|---|---|
| Amortized | Effective cost: commitments and upfront fees spread over the days they cover, net of discounts and credits | Showback, budgets and trends |
| Billed | What the invoice charges on each day, with upfront purchases on the day they are billed | Matching the invoice |
| List | On-demand price before any discount | Savings against list and the effective savings rate |
The explorer reads a daily summary built and checked against the full cost detail on every allocation run.
An explorer built on the same data as everything else
Business dimensions
Group by the units, teams and applications your mappings set.
Promoted tags
Turn any tag key into a column for grouping and filters.
Filters
Combine filters across business and FOCUS fields.
Scheduled email
Weekly or monthly, scoped to each recipient.
CSV export
Download any breakdown as it is shown.
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