Blog
Notes from CostReveal: Cost attribution for AI, cloud, & API spend, and how it is built.
Setup guides
Tracking Cohere costs in CostReveal, setup guide
How to bring Cohere API spend into CostReveal as a custom source, from Cohere's invoices or the billed units its API returns, and explain it by team, feature and customer.
, 4 minute read
Setup guides
Tracking Mistral costs in CostReveal, setup guide
How to bring Mistral API spend into CostReveal as a custom source, from the figures Mistral's Admin Panel shows, and explain it by team, feature and customer.
, 4 minute read
Setup guides
Connecting Kubernetes to CostReveal, setup guide
How to connect your Kubernetes clusters to CostReveal: the OpenTelemetry Collector setup, workload-level cost attribution, and how idle capacity is handled.
, 9 minute read
Setup guides
Connecting Cursor to CostReveal, setup guide
How to connect Cursor to CostReveal: an Admin API key, usage based charges by day, member and model, the token fee, and assigning members to teams by rule.
, 6 minute read
Setup guides
Connecting Stripe to CostReveal, setup guide
How to connect Stripe to CostReveal: a restricted read key, invoices, credit notes and charges as revenue, customer metadata, and margin by customer.
, 6 minute read
Setup guides
Connecting Cloudflare to CostReveal, setup guide
How to connect Cloudflare to CostReveal: a Billing Read token, the Billable Usage API in FOCUS, usage by product, day and zone, and owners by rule.
, 6 minute read
Setup guides
Connecting Twilio to CostReveal, setup guide
How to connect Twilio to CostReveal: a Main API key, usage records by category, subaccounts as accounts, and how each day's total is kept whole.
, 6 minute read
Setup guides
Connecting Grafana Cloud to CostReveal, setup guide
How to connect Grafana Cloud to CostReveal: an access policy token, billed usage by product, how each bill is divided among stacks, and stack labels.
, 6 minute read
Perspectives
Allocation rules for shared costs
Tags never explain everything. How CostReveal names owners and divides shared costs with rules anyone can read as a sentence, applied in a stated order, versioned, and never overriding what the bill and tags already say.
, 4 minute read
Perspectives
Budgets that forecast from their own spend
A team's budget forecast should follow the team, not the project. How CostReveal forecasts every budget from its own spend, day by day, states its method, and alerts once without ever blocking anything.
, 4 minute read
Perspectives
Chargeback finance can close
Internal billing breaks when figures move after the month is closed. How CostReveal charges cost centers for what they own, closes each month into a statement that never changes, and records a provider restatement as a new version.
, 3 minute read
Setup guides
Connecting New Relic to CostReveal, setup guide
How to connect New Relic to CostReveal: a user key, your contract rates, data ingest, users and compute priced as estimates, and owners by account.
, 7 minute read
Perspectives
What a security review will ask, answered
Cost data touches every provider account you have. How CostReveal keeps organizations apart, reads only what it needs, requires two step verification, signs people in through your identity provider, and records every change.
, 4 minute read
Perspectives
What drove the change, measured rather than guessed
Spend went up 18 percent. Which team, service or customer moved it, by exactly how much? How CostReveal divides any change in spend by every dimension, so the parts add up to the change.
, 4 minute read
Setup guides
Connecting Datadog to CostReveal, setup guide
How to connect Datadog to CostReveal: an API key and a scoped application key, final and estimated costs, cost attribution by tag, and Datadog's own total.
, 7 minute read
Setup guides
Connecting Databricks to CostReveal, setup guide
How to connect Databricks to CostReveal: billing system tables, a service principal that trusts a key CostReveal makes, and why who invoices you matters.
, 6 minute read
Setup guides
Connecting Oracle Cloud to CostReveal, setup guide
How to connect Oracle Cloud to CostReveal: FOCUS cost reports, an API key CostReveal makes, the read policy, defined tags, and the Usage API monthly check.
, 6 minute read
Setup guides
Connecting Snowflake to CostReveal, setup guide
How to connect Snowflake to CostReveal: organization usage views, a service user with a key CostReveal makes, warehouse charges divided by credits, and tags.
, 6 minute read
Setup guides
Connecting Google Cloud to CostReveal, setup guide
How to connect Google Cloud to CostReveal: the detailed BigQuery billing export, two dataset grants, labels that name owners, and the invoice month check.
, 7 minute read
Setup guides
Connecting Azure to CostReveal, setup guide
How to connect Azure to CostReveal: a FOCUS cost export, admin consent, the two role grants, tag inheritance, and how each month is checked against Azure.
, 8 minute read
Setup guides
Connecting Anthropic to CostReveal, setup guide
How to connect Anthropic to CostReveal with an Admin API key, attribute Claude API spend by model, workspace and team, and divide shared spend by customer.
, 7 minute read
Setup guides
Connecting OpenAI to CostReveal, setup guide
How to connect OpenAI to CostReveal with an admin key, read API spend by project, model and line item, name project owners, and check each month's total.
, 7 minute read
Setup guides
Connecting AWS to CostReveal, setup guide
Connect AWS to CostReveal: one CloudFormation stack, a CUR 2.0 export, cost allocation tag activation, Bedrock by model, and checks against Cost Explorer.
, 9 minute read
Comparisons
CostReveal vs CloudZero, a fair comparison
Comparing CloudZero and CostReveal on pricing, Kubernetes, AI spend and unattributed spend, from each one’s own published material, and who each suits.
, 8 minute read
Perspectives
Why CostReveal shows the spend it cannot explain
Every cost tool has a number it cannot attribute. Hiding it makes the rest look more certain than it is. Why CostReveal shows unknown spend, and how teams shrink it.
, 7 minute read