Cost Optimization
Cut AI and cloud costs
without cutting what’s working.
Most cost-cutting starts with the biggest line on the bill. CloudZero connects AI and cloud spend directly to the feature, customer, and model behind it, so finance can see which costs are paying off before anything gets cut.cloud-efficient engineering.
Complete visibility
AI-powered alerts
Expert guidance
Discount management
Find savings in the spend nobody owns
The easiest savings to miss are the costs nobody can explain: shared infrastructure, untagged resources, AI calls that all bill to one API key. CloudZero allocates that spend to the teams, products, and customers using it, so every savings opportunity comes with someone who can act on it.
Catch cost spikes the moment they start
AI costs can shift from one moment to the next. A longer prompt, a model swap, or an agent doing more work than planned usually surfaces on the invoice a month later. CloudZero measures spend as it happens and alerts the team that owns it, so a spike gets fixed before it turns into a variance finance has to explain.
Know what your commitments are actually saving
Savings plans, reserved instances, and committed-use discounts only pay off if you use them. CloudZero’s standard dashboards show coverage, utilization, and effective rates, reconciled to your invoice, so finance can see what each commitment returns.
Receive ongoing coaching from our experts
All CloudZero customers get a designated Technical Account Manager (TAM) who implements prescriptive best practices, builds custom spend Dimensions, and provides guidance throughout the full customer lifecycle.
CloudZero truly gives us a heartbeat of our spend at all times.
Adam Walker
VP of Infrastructure and Security, Validity
Reduced time spent managing cost by 90%
Within two weeks, we had already found enough savings to pay for a year’s worth of license. It was that good — that intuitive.
Stuart Davidson
Platform Engineering Lead, Skyscanner
Decentralized cost accountability to engineers
Cost optimization that holds up in a budget review
Budgets
Total spend going up isn’t a problem if cost per customer is going down. CloudZero tracks cost per customer, feature, and model, so you can tell growth from waste and set targets finance and engineering both use.
Optimize
Savings ideas from your engineers, your Technical Account Manager, and CloudZero’s automated analysis go into one list. Each one has an estimated saving and an owner, so nothing gets lost between finding it and fixing it.
The financial control plane for AI spend
Every AI dollar. Every outcome. Connected.