Legacy FinOps
0.5 to 3% of spend (€50,000 to €300,000/yr on a €10M bill)
Weeks of onboarding, taxonomy project
Their dashboard is the surface
Rare or afterthought LLM coverage
No MCP, no agent access
Costory
€3,000 flat for up to €10M annual spend
30 minutes via Terraform
Slack, MCP, BI, IDP, web app
Native OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock, Cursor
MCP server with structured tools
The shape of the market
The model they were built for
Legacy assumes a 3 to 5 person FinOps team that lives in the tool. You don't have that team — you have one infra lead who got stuck with cost questions.
Side-by-side
Why choose Costory over legacy tools
Pricing
Legacy FinOps | Costory | |
|---|---|---|
Model | 0.5 to 3% of cloud spend | €250/month flat |
On a €2.4M bill | €12,000 to €72,000/yr | €3,000/yr |
On a €10M bill | €50,000 to €300,000/yr | €3,000/yr |
Sales cycle | Enterprise contract | Self-serve or 20-min demo |
Setup and operations
Legacy FinOps | Costory | |
|---|---|---|
Setup time | Weeks, plus training | 30 minutes via Terraform |
Re-tagging project | Often required | Uses your existing tags |
Allocation | Heavyweight config | 80% automated from metadata |
Ongoing ownership | Dedicated FinOps lead | Infra lead stays on roadmap |
Where cost data lives
Legacy FinOps | Costory | |
|---|---|---|
Their dashboard | Primary surface | One surface among many |
Slack | PDF export, weekly | Per-team digests, alerts in-channel |
MCP | Not available | Structured tools, any MCP client |
BI tools | Custom pipeline | Native PowerBI, Looker, Data Studio |
IDP (Backstage) | Not available | Native |
API for agents | Limited | First-class |
Coverage
Legacy FinOps | Costory | |
|---|---|---|
AWS, GCP, Azure | Yes | Yes |
Datadog billing | Sometimes | Yes |
OpenAI, Anthropic, Cursor, Bedrock | Rare | Native |
Event correlation | Limited | Deploys, pricing, traffic |
Fair use
When legacy FinOps is the right call
You have a 5+ person FinOps team
A dedicated team with a mandate to run a tool day to day will use features our infra-first design doesn't prioritize.
Your bill is over €10M/year and you want bundled services
At that spend, 0.5% can buy you implementation services you'd otherwise hire for.
Procurement requires a closed SaaS
Some orgs need a single vendor-audited dashboard for compliance reasons. Legacy fits that brief.
Setup
Start using Costory in 30 minutes with Terraform
One terraform apply to connect every provider. Allocation runs on the tags you already maintain.
Features
What replaces the workaround
Virtual dimensions
Allocation logic that layers on top of your existing tags, without a re-tagging project.
Event correlation
Deploys, pricing changes, and traffic spikes tied to cost movements at ingest.
MCP server
Structured tools across every provider, queryable from Claude, Cursor, or any MCP client.
Slack reports
Weekly per-team digests and drift alerts, delivered in channel.
Cost Explorer
Drill into any line, share a saved view, jump to the deploy that caused the spike.
BI exports
Native PowerBI, Looker, BigQuery. Your existing reporting keeps working.
Pay for the context layer, not the dashboards
€250 / month flat — up to €10M annual spend
No percentage of cloud spend
No enterprise sales call
No need to hire a FinOps team
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