Compare, connect, govern, and export cloud cost decisions.
Rateplane gives teams a public price-intelligence layer first, then turns connected billing data into spend health, allocation, savings, forecasts, budget guardrails, and evidence exports after sync.
Evaluation path
Confirm fit before connecting production data
Enterprise buyers and end users can verify coverage, required setup, and data assumptions before rolling workflows into weekly reviews or finance reporting.
Start with coverage
Use the product map to confirm which workflows are public, connected-account, integration-required, configured, admin-only, or partial.
Connect source data
Connected spend workflows require read-only billing access or exports from AWS, Azure, or GCP. Public pricing research works before setup.
Review methodology
Catalog pricing, imported spend, estimated savings, and exported reports should be evaluated as separate data types.
Pricing Reference
Normalized public catalog pricing with source context
AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Linode, and Vultr compute pricing mapped into consistent fields for search and comparison, with freshness shown where available.
Compare GPU, Arm-based, memory-optimized, compute-optimized, and high-memory options without translating provider naming by hand.
Review spot and preemptible prices alongside on-demand rates to identify workloads worth evaluating for flexible capacity.
Set target prices by instance type and region, then notify owners when catalog pricing crosses a saved threshold.
Compare AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, Linode, and Vultr options with normalized vCPU, memory, region, operating system, and hourly price fields.
Spend Management
Connected spend visibility for budget owners and service teams
Connect AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, and GCP Billing Export for a unified view of account, service, and tag spend.
Highlight unusual spend movement early enough for teams to investigate before month-end reporting.
Set budgets for provider, account, or named owner scopes and route threshold alerts to the right reviewers.
Review projected month-end spend from connected billing history and current run rate before budget reviews.
Cost Optimization
Prioritize optimization work with pricing and spend context
Surface likely idle, orphaned, or over-provisioned resources from connected account data for owner review.
Use utilization signals and catalog benchmarks to shortlist resources that may be candidates for resizing.
Review Reserved Instance and Savings Plan coverage, utilization, and renewal risk before procurement decisions.
Plan non-production shutdown opportunities and document expected savings before operational rollout.
Define governance checks for budget ownership, tags, approved regions, and SKU review workflows.
Cost Allocation
Translate raw cloud billing into business ownership
Allocate costs by cloud tags across providers and review coverage gaps by account, service, and business owner.
Apply business dimensions to spend views where provider tags are missing, inconsistent, or not yet remediated.
Prepare team, department, or product cost exports for finance review, internal billing, or showback reporting.
Create logical groupings that span accounts, regions, providers, services, and tags for business-aligned cost views.
Reporting & Analytics
Dashboards and exports for operating reviews
Save and share views for spend trends, budget variance, account rollups, allocation, and catalog comparisons.
Export available catalog, spend, budget, and allocation views for BI, spreadsheet, and finance handoff workflows.
Compare spend and pricing by provider, region, service, and account so architecture and finance teams can review tradeoffs.
Track spend movement over time and pair cloud cost reviews with business, product, or infrastructure activity.
Share saved views and exports with stakeholders so review meetings start from the same numbers.
Integrations & API
Bring Rateplane data into existing analysis and approval flows
Connect cloud billing sources first, then use exports and API access to feed the systems your team already trusts.
Programmatic access to catalog pricing, comparisons, exports, and alerts for internal calculators and workflow tools.
Use workflow events and exports to connect budget and review activity with downstream operating processes.
Export filtered catalog, spend, budget, and allocation views to CSV for spreadsheet analysis or finance handoff.
Route budget and threshold alerts through configured notification channels for investigation and review.
Capability coverage by workflow
Rateplane separates public pricing research from connected-account work, integrations, configured controls, admin-only operations, and partial features so teams know what each workflow needs.
| Workflow | Status | Primary audience | What it requires | Docs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Public catalog Pricing research, comparison, filters, calculators, reference catalogs, and public education that work before customer billing data is connected. | ||||
| Catalog and pricing reference | Public catalog | Engineering, platform, procurement, FinOps | No cloud credentials for public catalog browsing; account required for saved workflows and alerts. | Product map |
| Compare, shortlist, and saved decisions | Workspace feature | Engineering, architecture review, procurement | Account required for saved comparisons and saved filters; public browsing still works without sign-in. | Product map |
| AI, SaaS, platform, and specialty cost catalogs | Workspace feature | AI platform, developer productivity, SaaS owners, infrastructure teams | Catalog browsing may be public or workspace-based; connected spend requires SaaS/vendor integrations or imported usage data. | Product map |
Connected-account workflows Spend, budget, forecast, allocation, optimization, and reporting workflows that depend on imported billing, usage, resource, contract, or user-maintained data. | ||||
| Cloud account connection and sync | Requires connected data | Cloud operations, FinOps admins, platform owners | Read-only billing credentials or exports for AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, or GCP BigQuery billing export. | Product map |
| Spend analytics and cost reporting | Requires connected data | FinOps, finance, engineering managers, service owners | Connected billing data and successful syncs. | Product map |
| Budgets, alerts, and guardrails | Requires connected data | Budget owners, finance, platform teams | Workspace account for saved budgets and alerts; connected spend for spend-based thresholds and forecasts. | Product map |
| Forecasting, planning, commitments, and contracts | Requires connected data | Finance, procurement, FinOps, platform leadership | Connected spend for forecasts; manually entered or imported contract and commitment records for renewal planning. | Product map |
| Optimization, waste, rightsizing, and automation | Requires connected data | Platform engineering, cloud operations, FinOps practitioners | Connected resource/spend data for recommendations; explicit approvals and provider permissions for live remediation. | Product map |
| Allocation, showback, chargeback, and unit economics | Requires connected data | Finance, FinOps, product owners, business unit owners | Connected spend and reliable dimensions such as tags, accounts, services, or manually configured allocation rules. | Product map |
| Exports, reports, digests, and evidence packs | Requires connected data | Finance, executives, FinOps, auditors, BI/data teams | Workspace data for saved reports; connected spend for spend and allocation exports. | Product map |
Integration-required workflows External service connections, APIs, notification channels, webhooks, and sync operations that require tokens, credentials, or customer-side setup. | ||||
| Integrations, API, notifications, and webhooks | Requires integration setup | Platform, DevOps, FinOps automation, incident response | Provider-specific credentials, API tokens, webhook secrets, or external service configuration. | Product map |
Configured controls Controls for identity, roles, billing, security review, rollout, procurement, auditability, and governance that require workspace or plan configuration. | ||||
| Security, identity, and enterprise rollout | Plan-configured control | IT, security, workspace admins, procurement | Workspace admin permissions; SAML SSO requires Business or Enterprise plan. Audit retention and rollout support require Enterprise plan. | Product map |
| Onboarding, demo data, labs, and product education | Workspace feature | New users, evaluators, internal champions, solution engineers | Workspace account for onboarding and demo reset; public docs available without sign-in. | Product map |
Admin-only operations Operator-only administration for catalog operations, jobs, sync health, billing health, audit review, and external dependency readiness. | ||||
| Operator administration and operational readiness | Admin / operations | Internal operators, platform operations, support admins | Operator or admin role; some checks also require configured env vars, queues, cron jobs, provider credentials, or external service keys. | Product map |
Partial and future-facing features Labs, previews, redirect stubs, or partially wired workflows that should be evaluated as emerging capabilities rather than generally available product promises. | ||||
| Labs, partial, and future-facing workflows | Partial / future | Evaluators, solution engineers, product teams, early-access users | Labs access, admin enablement, or future wiring depending on the workflow. | Product map |
The complete product map documents more workflows, trust notes, required setup, and main routes.
Evaluate coverage, then choose the setup path
Start with public pricing research and the product map. Connect billing data when your team is ready to review spend, budgets, allocation, forecasts, and optimization recommendations from your own accounts.