Connection guide
How to connect ChatGPT to your Azure costs
Connect ChatGPT to your Azure costs through Costory's FinOps MCP. ChatGPT gets Azure spend allocated to teams and features, next to the deploys and metrics that explain it.
What you can ask ChatGPT about Azure
“Which Azure subscriptions grew fastest this quarter?”
“Split Azure OpenAI spend by deployment and team.”
“Create a budget alert for the data team's Azure spend.”
“Which team owns most of this month's increase?”
“Set up a weekly Slack report of this spend for #finops.”
What ChatGPT sees
Costory ingests Azure cost through Azure Cost Management exports via Terraform or manual setup, normalizes it into one cost model alongside your other providers, and allocates it with subscriptions, resource groups, tags, Virtual Dimensions. Through the MCP server, ChatGPT can query that allocated cost, compare periods, look up deploys and other events in the same window, and create alerts, reports and dashboards in Costory. It has no write access to your cloud accounts.
Good to know for this setup
Tags are often inconsistent across subscriptions; normalize them in Dimensions instead of re-tagging.
Set up in about 30 minutes
1. Connect Azure to Costory. Follow the Azure setup guide in the docs.
2. Map spend to owners. Use Virtual Dimensions to group accounts, projects, labels and tags into teams, products and environments, even where tagging is incomplete.
3. Add Costory to ChatGPT.
ChatGPT can connect to remote MCP servers as a custom connector. A step-by-step ChatGPT guide is not yet published in the Costory docs; until it is, follow the generic remote MCP instructions in the docs.
Full client instructions: MCP setup guide.
Good to know
Tags are often inconsistent across subscriptions; normalize them in Dimensions instead of re-tagging.
Azure tools compared
Azure MCP Server CostManagement toolset | Costory MCP | |
|---|---|---|
Scope | Provider-specific | AWS, GCP, Azure, Kubernetes, data platforms, LLM APIs |
Allocation to teams | Not built in | Virtual Dimensions |
Deploys and events next to cost | No | Yes (GitHub, CI/CD, custom events) |
Actions | Provider-specific | Alerts, reports, dashboards, events in Costory |
Based on each tool's public documentation; check current docs before deciding.
FAQ
Does ChatGPT get write access to my Azure account?
No. Costory reads billing data you export to it. MCP actions create Costory objects (alerts, reports, dashboards, events) and never change your cloud resources.
What Azure permissions does Costory need?
Read access to billing data only. The exact permissions are listed in the Azure setup guide.
Where is the data stored?
Costory stores and processes data in the EU.
How much does it cost?
Plans start at €250/month (up to €10M annual cloud spend), billed annually, with a 30-day free trial. See pricing.
Playbooks
Playbooks for Azure
What the Costory agent can watch, investigate and report on for you, with this in the loop.
All playbooks
Costory notices
The unallocated bucket grows above your threshold.
Allocate cloud costs without perfect tagging
Map accounts, projects, resource names and partial tags to teams with rules, instead of waiting for a tagging project to finish.
See the playbook
Costory notices
Weekly, or when untagged spend jumps.
Tag coverage audit: the agent finds allocation gaps and drafts the rules
Find which label keys could become dimensions, how much spend each one covers, and where untagged cost is concentrated.
See the playbook
Costory notices
Every week, across every connected provider.
One showback across AWS, Google Cloud, Azure, AI and data platforms
Teams see all their costs in one place, whatever the provider: cloud, Kubernetes, data platforms and LLM APIs.
See the playbook
Costory notices
The 11th of every month, after month n-1 is frozen.
Monthly chargeback pack by cost center, ready for finance
A monthly, frozen view of allocated cost per cost center, exported to BigQuery or shared as a PDF for finance.
See the playbook
Connect in under 30 minutes. Get your first optimization recommendation the next day.
30-day free trial. Copilot, €250/month, or Copilot Pro, €1,000/month, billed annually.
First optimization recommendation
The next day
ROI
Pays for itself with the first recommendation you act on
Setup
About 30 minutes
Data residency
EU
Access
Read-only on your cloud