Reservation & Savings Plan optimizer
Model 1y/3y Reserved Instances and Azure Savings Plans for compute against your historical usage. Break-even, lock-in risk and shared-vs-single-scope analysis.
Azure cost management
Azure cost management that doesn't require a CSP partner.
Reservation & Savings Plan modeling, AKS rightsizing, Azure SQL DTU/vCore analysis and idle resource detection — onboarded via a single App Registration.
App Reg
Read-only
EA / MCA
Enterprise & Pay-as-you-go
All subs
Subscription-aware
Azure cost data lives across Cost Management exports, Reservations, Savings Plans, EA agreements and per-subscription quotas. Lumicost normalizes all of it, joins with Azure Monitor metrics, and produces Azure-specific recommendations: Reservation coverage, AKS rightsizing, Azure SQL tier optimization and idle resource cleanup. One App Registration, no CSP dependency.
How Lumicost delivers Azure cost management
AKS rightsizing & Spot scoring
Pod-level cost allocation, node pool sizing and Spot node safety scoring across system and user pools.
Azure SQL & Cosmos DB optimization
DTU vs vCore arbitrage, idle SQL Managed Instance detection, Cosmos DB RU rightsizing and serverless tier evaluation.
Idle resources & orphaned assets
Unused public IPs, idle Application Gateways, oversized VM scale sets, orphaned managed disks, dormant Storage Accounts.
Frequently asked questions
What Azure permissions does Lumicost need?+
An App Registration with Cost Management Reader and Reader on the management group or subscriptions you want analyzed. No write permissions, no key vault access.
Does it work with Enterprise Agreement (EA) and MCA?+
Yes. Both EA and Microsoft Customer Agreement are supported through the standard Cost Management API.
Can it analyze multiple subscriptions at once?+
Yes. Onboard at the management group level and we automatically enumerate all child subscriptions.
How does this compare to Azure Cost Management + Billing?+
The native tool shows historical spend. Lumicost adds prioritized recommendations, multi-cloud comparison, AKS pod-level allocation and FinOps workflow automation.
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