Vantage vs Costory: both great product, major difference on the budget

Costory is our product. Claims about other tools reflect their public documentation and pricing page as of October 15, 2026; check their current pages before deciding.

The short answer

Choose Vantage if: you want a mature, broad platform with 30+ native integrations, Autopilot for AWS Savings Plans and fine grained visibility.

Choose Costory if: you want a flat, published price you can budget, a free 30-day start, and cost answers inside Slack and your AI assistant.

Side by side

Where Vantage is strong

Vantage is a mature, broad platform with a large integration catalog and commitment automation. Its pricing page lists a free Starter plan and free trials, and it offers Autopilot for AWS Savings Plans.

Where Costory is different

• Flat, transparent pricing: Copilot €250/month (up to €10M annual cloud spend), Copilot Pro €1,000/month (up to €20M annual cloud spend), billed annually. Vantage lists fixed plans up to $20,000 of monthly tracked cloud spend, then Enterprise on quote, so a growing bill means a new conversation about price.

• Start free: a 30-day free trial, connected in under 30 minutes.

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

• 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.

Vantage details from vantage.sh/pricing, checked October 15, 2026.

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

Is Costory a replacement for Vantage?

Not necessarily. Vantage is a great product. Costory is a good fit when you want flat, published pricing, a free 30-day start and answers in Slack and your AI assistant.

How long does Costory take to set up?

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.

Where is Costory's data hosted?

In the EU.