CloudZero Dimensions

The engine behind cost per anything

Dimensions are the foundation of everything CloudZero does. Define how your business measures cost, and that structure flows through every report, budget, alert, and AI workflow.

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Allocate all AI
and cloud spend

Most cost tools can only allocate what’s tagged. CloudZero allocates everything, including shared infrastructure, platform costs, and resources that never had a tag to begin with. CostFormation, CloudZero’s allocation language, uses rules and telemetry streams to distribute spend based on usage patterns, not estimates or flat splits. The result is a complete picture with no gaps and no asterisks.

Shared cost distribution uses actual consumption data, not equal splits or headcount ratios
Untaggable resources like networking, support charges, and data transfer get allocated through usage-based rules
Allocation accuracy holds even in Kubernetes, multi-tenant, and AI environments where traditional tagging breaks down

Model cost to your business

Every organization measures itself differently. CloudZero’s dimension engine lets you define the cost structures that match how your business actually runs, not how your cloud provider bills. Whether your business thinks in product lines, customer segments, AI models, or engineering teams, you can build a dimension for it. This is what makes cost-per-anything possible. Without it, you’re stuck reporting on AI and cloud accounts and service categories that mean nothing to a CFO or product leader.

CostFormation, CloudZero’s allocation engine, powers every dimension with rules that handle shared costs, untaggable spend, and multi-tenant infrastructure
Dimension Studio lets you build and test dimensions visually or in code, with a built-in diff viewer to validate changes before they go live
Parent-child hierarchies let you layer dimensions so a single cost can be viewed by team, product, feature, or customer depending on who’s asking

Your cost data layer, everywhere

Dimensions don’t live in the CloudZero interface alone. Once defined, your dimensional model becomes the foundation for every capability in the platform. Budgets, anomaly detection, analytics, and AI-enhanced investigation all reference the same structure. When your agentic tooling investigates a cost spike, it works from your business context, not generic cloud metadata. The model you build once becomes the intelligence layer for everything.

Every CloudZero capability, from Explorer to Budgets to Anomaly Detection, references the same dimensional model
AI Hub skills use your dimensions as deterministic grounding, so every investigation reflects your business, not cloud service categories
That same intelligence reaches into Slack, Jira, GitHub, Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and other MCP-compatible environments, wherever the decision gets made

Why CloudZero is different

Cost per anything, defined by you

Build dimensions for teams, products, features, customers, or any structure your business runs on. Dimension Studio makes it visual. CostFormation makes it accurate.

Complete allocation, zero gaps

Every dollar allocated, including shared, untaggable, and multi-tenant costs. No estimates, no flat splits, no exclusions.

Intelligence that flows everywhere

Your dimensional model powers every report, budget, alert, and AI workflow in CloudZero, and reaches into Slack, Jira, and engineering tools.

In my department, cloud cost is the largest expense we have outside of people. CloudZero helps me stay on top of it, simply, accessibly, and in a friendly way.