Harness Cloud Cost Management vs Costory

Costory is our product.

The short answer

Choose Harness if: you already use the Harness platform and want cost attribution, AutoStopping, commitment orchestration, Kubernetes optimization and governance for cloud and AI spend next to delivery.

Choose Costory if: you want a standalone allocation and explanation layer, at a flat published price, in Slack and your AI assistant.

Side by side

Where Harness is strong

Harness describes cost management that runs alongside its CI/CD, security and feature flag products, with attribution, automated idle-resource stopping, Reserved Instance and Savings Plan automation, Kubernetes rightsizing and budget governance. That fits teams already on Harness that want cost control close to delivery.

Where Costory is different

• Allocation first: Virtual Dimensions map accounts, projects, labels and tags to teams and features, even with incomplete tagging.

• Explanations, not just numbers: cost changes are shown next to deploys, incidents and usage metrics.

• Works where your team already is: Slack digests and alerts in the channel you choose (for example #finops), and Claude, Claude Code, Cursor and Grok Bot via MCP.

• Flat pricing: Copilot €250/month, Copilot Pro €1,000/month, billed annually, with a 30-day free trial and a connection in under 30 minutes.

What Costory does not do

• It does not buy Reserved Instances or Savings Plans for you.

• It does not apply automated rightsizing.

• It does not get write access to your cloud accounts (MCP actions create Costory objects only: alerts, reports, dashboards, events).

Can you use both?

Often, yes. Many teams keep their provider's native tools for account-level detail and use Costory for cross-provider allocation, reporting and AI-assisted investigations.

FAQ

Should I use Harness or Costory?

It depends. Harness CCM fits teams already on the Harness platform that want cost control and automated optimization next to delivery. Costory fits teams that want a standalone allocation and explanation layer, with answers in Slack and the AI assistant they already use, at a flat published price.

How does Harness's pricing compare with Costory's?

See Harness's pricing page for current plans. Costory has two flat plans, Copilot at €250/month and Copilot Pro at €1,000/month, billed annually, with a 30-day free trial.

Can I use Harness and Costory together?

Often, yes. Teams can use Harness for automated optimization and governance and Costory for cross-provider allocation, deploy context and AI-assisted investigations. Costory does not buy Reserved Instances or Savings Plans and does not apply automated rightsizing.

How long does Costory take to set up, and where is my data hosted?

Under 30 minutes to connect your billing exports and the MCP, with Terraform or CloudFormation. Your first recommendation comes the next day, once the first billing data lands. A 30-day free trial is available. Costory hosts customer data in the EU, and access to your cloud accounts is read-only (billing and usage exports).