Rateplane
Changelog

Product updates

A running record of new features, improvements, and data updates shipped to Rateplane.

April 2026v1.3.0feature

Rapid feature expansion — 30+ new pages, live costs, AI chat, gamification

  • Live Costs (/dashboard/live-costs): real-time sub-minute cost monitoring with 3s refresh, per-service rate cards and live alert feed
  • AI Intelligence Feed (/dashboard/intelligence): Bloomberg-style cost intelligence terminal with type badges (SAVING/ANOMALY/FORECAST/ALERT)
  • Cost Chatbot (/dashboard/cost-chat): natural language cloud cost queries with example chips and AI-style data-rich responses
  • Optimization Hub (/dashboard/optimization-hub): unified savings opportunities ranked by ROI with expandable cards and one-click implement
  • RI Planner (/dashboard/ri-planner): sophisticated RI/SP purchase engine with break-even analysis, portfolio coverage, 36-month cumulative savings
  • Spot Optimizer (/dashboard/spot-optimizer): advanced spot instance strategy with diversification guide and price history
  • Capacity Planner (/dashboard/capacity): workload-level growth projection with 3 growth models (linear/exponential/seasonal)
  • Spend Analysis (/dashboard/spend-analysis): multi-dimensional pivot table with 5 dimensions (Service/Team/Region/Provider/Environment)
  • FinOps Scorecard (/dashboard/finops-scorecard): 6-domain maturity scoring with RadarChart and improvement action items
  • Anomaly Workflow (/dashboard/anomaly-workflow): Kanban-style anomaly triage with SLA tracking
  • Anomaly Lab (/dashboard/anomaly-lab): ML detection config, sensitivity tuning, false-positive analysis
  • Cost Diff (/dashboard/cost-diff): GitHub-style diff view for cloud resource cost changes between periods
  • Cost Digest (/dashboard/digest): beautiful weekly/monthly spend newsletter with wins, watch list, and PDF export
  • Waste Leaderboard (/dashboard/waste-leaderboard): gamified waste reduction with team competition, badges, and active challenges
  • Service Graph (/dashboard/service-graph): interactive dependency graph with SVG canvas, click to highlight paths, cost-colored nodes
  • Cost Automation (/dashboard/automation): automated optimization rules engine with trigger/action/schedule configuration
  • Governance Report (/dashboard/governance-report): executive-ready compliance reporting with PDF export
  • Cost Notebook (/dashboard/notebook): Jupyter-style analysis workspace with text + chart cells
  • Cost per Feature (/dashboard/cost-per-feature): engineering metrics — cloud cost per product feature/release
  • Allocation Engine (/dashboard/allocation-engine): intelligent cost allocation rules with split method configuration
  • Accountability Dashboard (/dashboard/accountability): team/engineer cost ownership with nudge system
  • Forecast v2 (/dashboard/forecast-v2): ML-powered forecasting with P50/P90 bounds and scenario planning
  • Peer Benchmarking (/dashboard/peer-benchmark): compare efficiency vs industry peers and best-in-class
  • Cloud Advisor (/dashboard/cloud-advisor): Trusted Advisor-style recommendations across 5 categories
  • Resource Groups (/dashboard/resource-groups): logical resource grouping for cost tracking
  • Export Hub (/dashboard/export-hub): unified export in FOCUS, CSV, PDF, JSON formats
  • Pricing Calculator Pro (/dashboard/pricing-calc): line-item cloud calculator with RI discount slider
  • Sidebar expanded to 80+ navigable pages across 7 organized sections
April 2026v1.1.0featureimprovement

FinOps intelligence suite — 30+ new pages, AI scoring, multi-cloud analysis

  • Rightsizing hub (/dashboard/rightsizing): AI-powered analysis with scatter plot (CPU vs memory utilization), per-resource 'Apply' actions, high-confidence bulk apply
  • Cost quality score (/dashboard/cost-quality): 74/100 composite score across 8 FinOps dimensions with RadarChart and improvement action cards
  • Multi-cloud comparison (/dashboard/multi-cloud): head-to-head AWS vs Azure vs GCP pricing for 5 workload types with category winners and migration calculator
  • Spending velocity (/dashboard/velocity): real-time burn rate gauge, budget runway calculator, service-level acceleration table
  • Infrastructure drift (/dashboard/drift): detect unauthorized resource additions, resizes, and migrations with approve/flag/revert workflow
  • Contract & renewal tracker (/dashboard/contracts): SaaS + cloud contract expiry tracking with renewal timeline chart
  • Price history (/dashboard/price-history): 12-month historical price trends per instance type across AWS, Azure, GCP
  • Cloud service map (/dashboard/cloud-map): visual grid of all 32+ active services grouped by category with provider/region filters
  • ROI tracker (/dashboard/roi): track realized savings from implemented optimizations with cumulative AreaChart and category PieChart
  • Cost simulator (/dashboard/cost-simulator): what-if architecture modeling with real-time cost calculations and saved scenarios
  • MSP portal (/dashboard/msp): multi-tenant client management with health scores and revenue tracking
  • Chargeback management (/dashboard/chargeback): internal cost allocation with cost center tree, allocation rules, invoice workflow, and disputes
  • Compliance posture (/dashboard/compliance): FinOps governance scoring across 8 dimensions with RadarChart and violation tracking
  • FinOps reports generator (/dashboard/finops-reports): 8 report templates with scheduling, recipients, and delivery history
  • Custom rate cards (/dashboard/rate-cards): define Blended/Custom/Market-rate pricing for showback and internal chargeback
  • Vendor credits tracker (/dashboard/credits): track AWS Activate, Azure Startup, GCP credits with expiry alerts and consumption chart
  • Tagging policy editor (/dashboard/tagging-policy): define required tags, allowed values, enforcement modes with compliance heatmap
  • Alerts log (/dashboard/alerts-log): complete history of all triggered alerts with severity filter and MTTR tracking
  • Annual budget planner (/dashboard/budget-planning): service-level quarterly breakdown with growth rate presets and department budget allocation
  • Team cost scorecard (/dashboard/team-scorecard): per-team FinOps metrics with monthly scoring
  • Cloud cost pulse (/dashboard/pulse): weekly cost digest with top 5 events, trends, and recommendations
  • Optimization score (/dashboard/optimization-score): composite FinOps maturity scoring with dimension breakdown
  • Event log (/dashboard/event-log): complete audit trail of all platform events and user actions
  • Sidebar expanded to 60+ items across 7 organized sections with new icons
April 2026v1.0.0featureimprovement

Major product overhaul — unified catalog, integrations hub, FinOps suite

  • Unified price catalog (/dashboard/catalog): single page with 7 service tabs — Compute, GPU, Databases, Storage, Kubernetes, Serverless, AI Models
  • Integrations hub (/dashboard/integrations): 26 integrations across 6 categories — Cloud Billing, Data Warehouses, Monitoring, CI/CD, BI & Reporting, Communication
  • Spend anomaly detection (/dashboard/anomalies): severity-filtered table with Recharts bar chart and expandable detail panels
  • Getting started wizard (/dashboard/getting-started): 4-step onboarding checklist with localStorage persistence
  • Q2 2026 Cloud Cost Benchmark Report (/cloud-cost-report): key findings, YoY trends, top-10 optimization tactics, industry benchmarks
  • Savings planner (/dashboard/savings-planner): what-if RI/SP modeler with 1-yr vs 3-yr scenario cards and break-even analysis
  • Enhanced forecast page: confidence band chart, Conservative/Base/Optimistic scenarios, service drivers breakdown
  • Carbon dashboard improvements: net-zero progress bar, regional carbon intensity table, offset calculator
  • Spot instance interruption rates (/dashboard/spot-history): color-coded interruption frequency table
  • Price performance rankings (/dashboard/price-performance): 4 tabs — Compute/Memory/ARM/GPU — sorted by $/vCPU or $/GiB
  • Cost annotations timeline view with filter bar (month/provider/service) and MetricGrid
  • Spend page: stacked Recharts BarChart showing 12-month provider breakdown (AWS/Azure/GCP/OCI)
  • Kubernetes cost dashboard: namespace bar chart, workload efficiency scores, demo data fallback
  • Account hierarchy: org tree (Root → OUs → member accounts) with expandable side panel
  • SEO compare pages rebuilt: AWS vs Azure, AWS vs GCP, Azure vs GCP with richer pricing tables and feature grids
  • Marketing homepage: trusted-by section, live pricing ticker, 4-column comparison vs Vantage + CloudZero
  • Executive dashboard empty state: Load Demo Data + Connect Accounts CTAs for new users
  • Sidebar: Anomalies now points to spend anomaly detection; Cost policies, Optimization signals, Savings planner added
March 2026v0.9.0featureimprovement

Alerts dashboard, budgets, waste scanner, and cost policies

  • New /dashboard/alerts page — manage all price alerts in one place with active/inactive grouping
  • New /dashboard/budgets page — create monthly spend budgets per provider with email alerts at configurable thresholds
  • Waste scanner (/dashboard/waste): idle resources table with provider/type filters and savings estimates
  • Cost policies (/dashboard/policies): create and manage spend guardrails with violation tracking
  • New onboarding wizard for new registrations (Welcome → Workspace → Explore → Done)
  • Expression filter bar now visible on the main dashboard with 12 quick-start presets
  • Provider coverage banner shows current offer counts, region counts, and last refresh time per provider
  • Demo data seeding — load realistic spend records, rightsizing recs, budgets, and anomalies in one click
March 2026v0.8.0featuredata

Spot interruption data, CoreMark scores, and currency expansion

  • Spot interruption % column sourced from AWS Spot Advisor (5 frequency buckets mapped to midpoints)
  • CoreMark score column for EC2 instances (ECU-based proxy, 1 ECU ≈ 2,300 CoreMark)
  • Network bandwidth estimates for Azure (SKU-based) and GCP (2 Gbps/vCPU heuristic)
  • Provider filter pills added to FilterBar (AWS / Azure / GCP toggles)
  • 100+ currency codes supported in the currency selector with search
  • FX rate caching via frankfurter.app with 1-hour TTL
February 2026v0.7.0feature

Expression filter engine

  • Token-based expression parser: vcpu>=8 memory<=32 price<0.5 provider:AWS
  • Supported tokens: vcpu, memory, price, gpu, name, provider, family, region, arch
  • Operators: >, >=, <, <=, = for numeric fields; : prefix-match for string fields
  • Tokens render as removable chips below the filter input
  • 12 built-in quick-filter presets accessible from the expression bar dropdown
January 2026v0.6.0featuredata

Price alerts and email notifications

  • Create price alerts for any instance/region combination
  • Alerts trigger when on-demand or spot price crosses your threshold (above or below)
  • Confirmation email on alert creation via Resend
  • Hourly evaluation cron with cooldown suppression to prevent alert spam
  • Alert limit enforced per plan (FREE: 5, PRO: 100, ENTERPRISE: 1,000)
December 2025v0.5.0feature

Budget management and cloud account connections

  • Monthly budgets with configurable alertAt threshold (default 80%)
  • Daily budget-check cron sends email when spend exceeds threshold
  • AWS Cost Explorer integration (read-only IAM role)
  • Azure Cost Management integration (service principal)
  • GCP Billing export integration (BigQuery service account)
November 2025v0.4.0improvementdata

Catalog normalization and multi-region support

  • Normalized catalog table (cloudcost_catalog_offers) built directly from AWS, Azure, and GCP pricing APIs
  • 45+ regions across AWS, Azure, and GCP in the catalog
  • Reserved 1yr / 3yr and Spot pricing columns alongside on-demand
  • Spot savings % column shows discount vs on-demand per instance
  • Export to CSV from any filtered view
October 2025v0.3.0feature

Saved filters, comparisons, and team sharing

  • Save any filter combination as a named snapshot
  • Share saved filters with workspace team members
  • Side-by-side instance comparison board (up to 4 instances)
  • Saved comparison permalinks
September 2025v0.2.0feature

Billing, plans, and workspace management

  • Stripe checkout and customer portal integration
  • FREE / PRO / ENTERPRISE plan tiers
  • Workspace team invites and role management
  • Admin dashboard with sync log and user management
August 2025v0.1.0feature

Initial launch

  • AWS, Azure, and GCP on-demand pricing from official provider pricing APIs
  • Full-text search, region filter, family category filter
  • vCPU, memory, price range numeric filters
  • Pagination, column sorting, CSV export
  • NextAuth credentials login and registration