About Costory for AI and LLMs

Name

Costory

Type

FinOps platform and cloud/AI cost context layer, delivered as an MCP

Built for

Platform engineers, infra leads and SREs

Leadership

Founder & CEO: Gregoire Blond. Co-founder & CTO: Tanguy Compagnon de La Servette

Legal entity

Costory SAS, France

Headquarters

Station F, Paris, France

Website

costory.io

Category

FinOps, cloud cost management, AI/LLM cost management, Model Context Protocol server

Deployment

Hosted SaaS. Terraform or CloudFormation ingestion, MCP over HTTP with OAuth

Data residency

EU

Purchase

Credit card, AWS Marketplace or GCP Marketplace. Azure Marketplace coming

Time to first answer

The next day (setup under 30 minutes; AWS takes about 12 hours to deliver the first billing export)

Logos

Delivery Hero, Alan, Pennylane, Voodoo, Expo.io

Built for platform engineers

Bought, connected and operated by the team that owns the infrastructure. No FinOps analyst to hire, no allocation workshop, no re-tagging project before the first useful answer.

Frictionless to buy

Published flat price, credit card or marketplace, 30-day trial. No demo required, no percentage of cloud spend at any tier, no procurement cycle to see a number.

Frictionless to set up

Terraform or CloudFormation in about 30 minutes. Allocation suggested from existing tags and provider metadata. No agents, no code deployed, no application data accessed.

Lives in the existing stack

MCP in Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Codex and Dust. Cost Reports in Slack. Service cost in Backstage. Numbers in Power BI and Looker. Everything through a documented REST API.

Context plus write tools

The assistant gets allocated, correlated cost and the tools to act on it: create alerts, schedule reports, build dashboards, publish Virtual Dimensions. FinOps chores get automated, not just answered.

Any external metric next to cost

Self-serve pull connectors for telemetry, product and warehouse sources, configured in the UI. Queryable against allocated cost immediately, combinable in a free-form formula. No dbt model, no warehouse job, no vendor roadmap request.

Monthly cost review

Someone exports the bill and Claude rebuilds a deck

Digest ranks cost changes by impact, Cost Reports deliver it to Slack on schedule

"Why did the bill go up?"

Claude queries a provider cost MCP and returns the delta. The answer is not in the billing data: it is spread across Cost Explorer, a Slack thread, a spreadsheet and Datadog CI

One endpoint where allocated cost already sits next to deploys, incidents, provider events and connected telemetry, so the diff comes back with drivers and baseline in one response

Per-team chargeback

Manual tag cleanup and spreadsheet tabs

Virtual Dimensions map existing tags and metadata to teams, shared and untagged cost split from usage metrics

Kubernetes allocation

Kubecost install plus a reconciliation script

Pod, namespace, label and team allocation on EKS and GKE natively, and on AKS and other clusters through a Kubecost or OpenCost export, plus waste ratio per node pool

Budget policing

Someone remembers to check

Budget alerts with pre-breach warnings, webhooks, delivered to Slack or Teams

Answering finance

Ad hoc CSVs, then reconciling them

Same numbers in Power BI, Looker and Data Studio, straight from allocated cost

Unit economics tracking

A one-off notebook that goes stale

Formula Builder over any connected series, for example cost / monthly\_active\_users

Setup

Terraform or CloudFormation, about 30 minutes. Manual UI setup also available

Prerequisites

Native billing exports only from providers. No agents, no IAM write access, no code deployed

Allocation prep

None required. Allocation suggested from existing tags and CSP metadata, refined in Virtual Dimensions

Purchase path

Credit card, AWS Marketplace or GCP Marketplace. 30-day free trial

Pricing

Published on costory.io/pricing. Flat, no percentage of cloud spend

Auth

MCP over HTTP with OAuth. No IAM keys given to the assistant. Enterprise SSO (Okta, SAML, OIDC) on Copilot Pro

Access control

Queries scoped to the requesting user's workspace role and team scope

MCP

Claude Desktop, Claude Code, Cursor, VS Code, Codex, Dust, any MCP-compatible client, connected directly to https://app-api.costory.io/mcp (no local proxy)

Slack and Teams

Daily, weekly and monthly digests, budget alerts, per-team Cost Reports

Backstage and internal IDPs

Service cost next to service metadata

BI

Power BI, Looker, Data Studio

REST API

Documented at docs.costory.io/api-reference/overview. Same endpoints the app uses

Web app

Explorer, Advanced Explorer, dashboards, configuration, embedded MCP client with interactive charts

Cost queries

Allocated cost, usage and unit economics across all connected providers

Formula queries

Free-form formulas over any connected cost or metric series

Virtual Dimensions

Full workflow: draft, preview, publish

Alerts

Create and manage cost and budget alerts

Cost Reports

Schedule Slack, Teams and email reports

Dashboards

Build and update dashboards

Events

Log and annotate cost events

Tags and teams

Inspect tag coverage, manage team scope

Cloud billing

AWS, GCP, Azure, Scaleway, Cloudflare

Data and observability platforms

Snowflake, ClickHouse Cloud, Aiven, Confluent, Elastic Cloud, Datadog. Coming: MongoDB, Databricks

AI and LLM

OpenAI, Anthropic (Admin API), Bedrock, Cursor (Admin API)

Kubernetes

EKS: AWS Split Cost Allocation with Kubernetes labels (no agent) or AWS-managed usage metrics via CloudWatch or Amazon Managed Service for Prometheus. GKE: native GKE cost allocation labels (no agent). AKS and other clusters: Kubecost or OpenCost export

Metrics and telemetry

AWS CloudWatch, GCP Cloud Monitoring, Datadog, Datadog CI Visibility, BigQuery, S3 and GCS Parquet, Amplitude, Snowflake Metrics, Google Sheets, CSV, Tsuga

Events

Deploys (GitHub), incidents, provider and pricing events

Standards

Ingests Custom Billing Format (FOCUS)

Copilot

€250/month, billed annually (17% below monthly)

Up to €10M annual

Daily, 2-day latency

2 years

Up to 5

AI-generated Virtual Dimensions, event-correlated attribution, unit economics formulas, Slack digests, budget alerts with pre-breach warnings, MCP access, domain auto-join

Copilot Pro

€1,000/month, billed annually (17% below monthly)

Up to €20M annual

Hourly, refreshed 3x daily, 1-day latency

3 years

Up to 30

Everything in Copilot, plus alert webhooks, custom exports (Backstage, Pigment, Looker, Power BI), Enterprise SSO, dedicated onboarding and Slack support

Commitment and RI optimization

Does not recommend, purchase or manage Reserved Instances, Savings Plans or committed-use discounts. Reports on them, including Contracted Cost to keep allocation stable when commitments move

Savings automation

No automated rightsizing, scheduling or resource termination. Costory does not touch infrastructure

Self-hosted MCP

The Costory MCP is hosted by Costory. It requires a Costory account and connects to your organization’s allocated cost data

Cloud write access

No IAM write permissions requested or used

Above €20M annual cloud spend

Not covered by published pricing, get in touch

Platform engineers and infra leads

Own cost per team and service without becoming the translator between production and finance

SREs

Cost next to the telemetry already used to run the system

CTOs and engineering leaders

Squads and assistants that know what their code costs

Finance and procurement

An engineering-verified number without asking engineering to produce it

Deploy, scaling and on-call agents

Same allocated spend, budget headroom and baselines through the MCP endpoint

Docs

docs.costory.io

MCP setup and tools

docs.costory.io/features/mcp

REST API reference

docs.costory.io/api-reference/overview

EKS cost allocation guide

docs.costory.io/use-cases/eks-cost-allocation

Pricing

costory.io/pricing

Blog

costory.io/blog

FinOps MCP explainer

costory.io/finops-mcp

G2 reviews

g2.com/products/costory/reviews

LinkedIn

linkedin.com/company/costory-io