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24 alternatives to Cur.vantage.sh – AWS Billing Code Lookup Tool

Hi HN, We're the team behind Vantage and ec2instances.info and wanted to share a new microsite we're launching. We profiled the number of distinct AWS billing codes across our customer base and found that there are about 60,000 unique ones. We hear all the time that people are confused about the billing codes present in Cost Explorer or the Cost and Usage Report. Think of these as being things like “Requests-Tier1” for S3 or “CW:GMWI-Metrics” for CloudWatch. There is usually really limited resources for determining what these billing codes are and the AWS documentation isn't always fully…

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.

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    Save up to 32% of your AWS bill.

    2021 · vantage.sh · its alternatives →

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    Vantage is a self-service cloud cost platform that gives developers the tools they need to analyze, report on and optimize AWS, Azure, and GCP costs.

    2021 · vantage.sh · its alternatives →

  3. 3AM

    Hey all - I work at Vantage, a FinOps platform. I know AI is peak hype right now. But it has definitely changed some of our dev workflows already. So we wanted to find a way to let our customers experiment with how they can use AI to make their cloud cost management work more productive. The MCP Server acts as a connector between LLMs (right now only Claude, Cursor support it but ChatGPT and Google Gemini coming soon) and your cost and usage data on Vantage which supports 20+ cloud infra providers including AWS, Datadog, Mongo, etc. (You have to have a Vantage account to use it since it's…

    2025 · its alternatives →

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    Today, Vantage announced the launch of its Cloud Pricing API in Beta. Users may now programmatically access product prices from various cloud infrastructure and service providers - the first of which is...

    2021 · vantage.sh · its alternatives →

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    Vantage is a self-service cloud cost platform that gives developers the tools they need to analyze, report on and optimize AWS, Azure, and GCP costs.

    2021 · vantage.sh · its alternatives →

  6. 6SA

    Link: https://www.vantage.sh/features/per-resource-costs Hi HN, I'm Co-Founder and CEO of Vantage and we just made "Per-Resource Costs" available to everyone, including users in our free tier. Vantage will now show you the cost of each individual AWS resource (EC2 instance, RDS instance, S3 Bucket, SNS Topic, Lambda Function, etc). You can drill down into each resource to see subcategory costs so imagine seeing specific egress costs being tied to a specific Cloudfront distribution or EC2 instance. This works by Vantage ingesting and processing Cost and Usage Reports from…

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Vantage▲89

    A cloud cost transparency platform

    2021 · vantage.sh · its alternatives →

  8. 8U2

    Hey HN: Kaveh here, the founder of https://www.usage.ai/ We launched on Hacker News for the first time early last year, and we've made a lot of progress since then. We've saved tens of millions of dollars for companies, and we are even more excited to announce the launch of a new product: insured reservations for RDS! We worked closely with AWS on this feature and are excited to finally make it generally available. We help companies drive down AWS EC2 & RDS spend. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. DevOps and Software Engineers end up spending time managing costs…

    2023 · its alternatives →

  9. 9IB

    Hey HN: I'm Kaveh, the founder of Usage (https://www.usage.ai/) We help companies drive down AWS costs. Why? Because the way it's done now is a pain. Stakeholders, especially engineers, are required to spend unnecessary time manually finding underutilized or overly expensive EC2s. We believe the optimization process should be done automatically through a series of sophisticated algorithms. At the moment, there are over 70,000 AWS EC2 prices - doing that manually just won't scale at most organizations. My background is in software engineering. Previous to founding Usage, I…

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    Do not get surprised by your AWS bill

    2020 · billgist.com · its alternatives →

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    Get daily, weekly & monthly AWS cost billing on Slack

    2024 · pagerly.io · its alternatives →

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    Hi HN community, [Direct Link: www.usage.ai] I’m Kaveh, founder and CEO of Usage, and am excited to show you Usage, an app that helps you slash your AWS EC2 bill by 50% in ~5min by trading reservations. As of today, Usage is in General Availability and any AWS user can use it. It works by creating a limited-access IAM role (ReadOnly + Ability to Manage Reservations) into your AWS account(s). The AWS console interface has made it hard for companies to optimize their AWS spend. After years of working for different companies that use AWS, I still find it difficult to understand how much money…

    2022 · its alternatives →

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    Extend your AWS free credits

    2021 · its alternatives →

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    Do’s & don’ts for first-time founders building on AWS

    2022 · guides.digger.dev · its alternatives →

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    Never go broke on AWS

    2022 · costguard.io · its alternatives →

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    All your cloud costs in one place, for free

    2023 · warpbuild.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi everyone, My name's Kaveh: I'm the founder of www.usage.ai EC2 Pricing: https://ec2pricing.usage.ai/ I thought the previous generation of EC2 Pricing Pages were getting quite slow and a bit buggy. So, I'm excited to announce that we launched a free, new EC2 pricing page for the community. Do you often look up EC2 Pricing? Would love to hear your thoughts direct: [email protected]

    2022 · its alternatives →

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  20. 20OC

    Hi HN, My name is Ben Schaechter and I’m Co-Founder and CEO of https://vantage.sh - a cloud cost visibility and optimization platform. We just added support for monitoring OpenAI costs and usage to Vantage and I wanted to share a demo we put together with HN as I thought people might find it interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzAOU1-uMrM In early April we started getting requests from customers to add OpenAI cost support specifically as it was a bit opaque as to what exactly was driving costs. The way this works is that it uses an undocumented API available…

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Recost▲130

    Your API costs fully visible.

    Apr 2026 · recost.dev · its alternatives →

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    Get up-to-date AWS pricing in Google Sheets

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Cloud spend visibility tool Finally Get Clarity On Cloud Spend Without Hours Lost In Dashboards

    2018 · cloudforecast.io · its alternatives →

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    Buy now, pay later for your business spend

    2021 · capchase.com · its alternatives →

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