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24 alternatives to The Cloud Cost Handbook

The Cloud Cost Handbook is a free, open-source, community-supported set of guides meant to help explain often-times complex pricing of public cloud infrastructure and service providers in plain english. - GitHub - vantage-sh/handbook.vantage.sh: The Cloud Cost Handbook is a free, open-source, commun

Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. The Cloud Cost Handbook launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Vantage▲89

    A cloud cost transparency platform

    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. 3SY

    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 →

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    All your cloud costs in one place, for free

    2023 · warpbuild.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey folks, my name is Owen and I recently started working at a startup (https://infracost.io/) that shows engineers how much their code changes are going to cost on the cloud before being deployed (in CI/CD like GitHub or GitLab). Previously, I was one of the founders of tfsec (it scanned code for security issues). One of the things I learnt was if we catch issues early, i.e. when the engineer was typing their code, we save a bunch of time. I was thinking … okay, why not build cloud costs into the code editor. Show the cloud cost impact of the code as the engineers are…

    2024 · its alternatives →

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    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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    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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    Open-source cloud-environment inspector. Supporting AWS, GCP, Azure, and more! Your cloud resources will have nowhere to hide! - mlabouardy/komiser

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Cloud cost efficiency, engineering-first

    2021 · its alternatives →

  10. 10AM

    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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    Infracost▲101

    Open source cloud cost estimator in pull requests

    2021 · infracost.io · its alternatives →

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    OpenCost is an open source implementation for Kubernetes cost monitoring and now cloud cost monitoring for AWS, Azure, and GCP. The project makes all of this data accessible via an API and user interface. While discussing the idea of running OpenCost on platforms besides Kubernetes we realized that with this new Cloud Costs feature there are users who want API access to their cloud billing data without needing to run on Kubernetes. I opened the Issue OpenCost without Kubernetes #2268 and as luck would have it, we had our internal Hackathon last week. If you're not familiar with OpenCost,…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hi, we’re Ali, Hassan and Alistair, co-founders of Infracost (https://www.infracost.io/). Infracost shows engineers the cost of each Terraform change in CI/CD before resources are launched. When something changes, it posts a comment with the cloud cost impact. e.g. you’ve added 2 instances and volumes, and have changed an instance type from medium to large, this will increase your bill by 25% next month from $1000 to $1250 per month. We launched the first version of Infracost just under a year ago (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26064588). As we said…

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Komiser▲386

    Open-source cloud environment inspector

    2023 · komiser.io · its alternatives →

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    Hey folks, I’m Hassan, one of the co-founders of Infracost (https://www.infracost.io). Infracost helps engineers see and reduce the cloud cost of each infrastructure change before they merge their code. The way Infracost works is we gather pricing data from Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. What we call a ‘Pricing Service’, which now holds around 9 million live price points (!!). Then we map these prices to infrastructure code. Once the mapping is done, it enables us to show the cost impact of a code change before it is merged, directly in GitHub, GitLab etc.…

    Jan 2026 · dashboard.infracost.io · its alternatives →

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    Contribute to davidbailey/Information_Security_Handbook development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2016 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Cost monitoring for Kubernetes workloads and cloud costs - opencost/opencost

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Reduce your cloud costs - SREs/DevOps/Cloud Engineers Hi community! We are Kaytu (“Kay-two,” named after the K2 mountain), and we've developed an open-source tool for engineering, DevOps, and SRE teams to reduce cloud costs. Cloud inflation (“cloud-flation”) is real—AWS EC2 costs are up 23% (4-5x global inflation average [1]), and 30% of the capacity that is paid for is simply wasted ([2]). The best way to improve cloud utilization is by simplifying the process so engineers can spot inefficiencies and suggest changes. We built a simple open-source CLI tool that recommends a…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Komiser▲88

    Identify potential cost savings on public cloud

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Organize, scale down, optimize and delete resources

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Cloud cost estimates for Terraform in pull requests💰📉 Love your cloud bill! - aliscott/infracost

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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

    2018 · cloudforecast.io · its alternatives →

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    Get up-to-date AWS pricing in Google Sheets

    2023 · its alternatives →

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