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 primary surface
Assumes a dedicated FinOps team owns the tool
Enterprise contract, price on request
Costory
€3,000 flat for up to €10M annual spend
30 minutes via Terraform
Slack, MCP, BI, Backstage, web app
Owned by the platform team, no FinOps hire
Self-serve, published price, 14-day trial
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 | Suggested from your existing tags and provider 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 | Report or PDF export, weekly | Per-team digests and alerts in-channel |
MCP | Finout and CloudZero ship MCP servers. Cloudhealth, Cloudability and DoiT do not | Hosted MCP server, one URL over OAuth, any MCP client |
BI tools | Custom pipeline | Native Power BI, Looker, Data Studio |
IDP (Backstage) | Varies by vendor | Native |
API for agents | Varies by vendor | Documented REST API, same endpoints the app uses |
Coverage
Legacy FinOps | Costory | |
|---|---|---|
AWS, GCP, Azure | Yes | Yes |
LLM providers (OpenAI, Anthropic, Bedrock, Cursor) | Covered by most | Native, same schema as cloud spend |
Data and developer SaaS (Confluent, Aiven, Elastic Cloud, ClickHouse Cloud) | Varies, often a custom import | First-class connectors |
European providers (Scaleway, OVH) | Rarely covered | Scaleway native, OVH next |
Kubernetes allocation | Yes, method varies by vendor | Split Cost Allocation, usage metrics or OpenCost export |
Event correlation | Varies by vendor | Deploys, incidents, provider events and connected telemetry |
External metric ingestion | Push API you build against, or a fixed metric set | Self-serve pull connectors configured in the UI |
Data residency | US for the named vendors | EU |
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.
You want bundled implementation services
At a large enough bill, 0.5% can buy you implementation and advisory services you would otherwise hire for. Costory sells the product, not the services around it.
Procurement requires a closed SaaS
Some orgs need a single vendor-audited dashboard for compliance reasons. Legacy fits that brief.
You need commitment purchasing or savings automation
Costory reports and explains. It does not buy Reserved Instances or Savings Plans, does not rightsize, and holds no write access to your infrastructure. If you want a vendor to execute those actions, 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 Power BI, Looker and Data Studio. Your existing reporting keeps working.
Pay for the context layer, not the dashboards
€250 / month flat — up to €10M annual spend
Above €20M a year of cloud spend, companies generally have a full-time FinOps team, and legacy tools are built for that team. If you are past €20M and cost is still stuck in platform engineering’s hands, get in touch.
No percentage of cloud spend
No enterprise sales call
No need to hire a FinOps team
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