Inform — cost visibility & allocation
Tag-aware allocation, unit economics ($ per request, $ per tenant), forecasting and budget alerts. Daily granularity across AWS, GCP and Azure.
finops platform
FinOps without the spreadsheets, the consultants, or the year-long rollout.
A FinOps platform that engineers actually use: USD-denominated recommendations, GitOps-friendly remediation, and a free plan that never expires.
FinOps Foundation
Aligned framework
3 clouds
AWS · GCP · Azure
5 min
Onboarding
A FinOps platform should turn cloud spend into a metric your engineering org optimizes weekly — not a quarterly report finance reads after the bill spikes. Lumicost ships the three FinOps Foundation phases (Inform, Optimize, Operate) in a single product: real-time visibility, prioritized recommendations and automation hooks for Slack, Jira and Terraform. No PSO contract, no 6-month onboarding.
How Lumicost delivers finops platform
Optimize — prioritized recommendations
Rightsizing, commitment planning, idle cleanup and architectural patterns (e.g. NAT gateway egress, intra-zone traffic). Each ranked by USD impact and effort.
Operate — workflow automation
Slack/PagerDuty alerts, Jira tickets auto-created with remediation steps, Terraform/PR-ready snippets, and audit-trail of accepted vs deferred recommendations.
Built for the FinOps Foundation framework
We map every feature to FinOps capabilities (Allocation, Anomaly Management, Rate Optimization, Workload Optimization). Useful when standing up a FinOps practice.
Frequently asked questions
What is a FinOps platform?+
A FinOps platform is software that helps engineering, finance and product teams collaborate on cloud cost decisions. It typically covers visibility (allocation), optimization (rightsizing, commitments) and operations (alerts, workflows).
How is Lumicost different from CloudHealth or Apptio?+
Engineer-first UX, free forever plan, SOC 2 evidence automation in the same product, native Kubernetes support and 5-minute onboarding instead of multi-week implementations.
Do I need a dedicated FinOps team to use it?+
No. Lumicost is designed so a single engineer or finance partner can stand up a FinOps practice. As you grow, it scales to support multi-team chargeback and approval workflows.
Is the data shared with other tenants?+
Never. Every tenant lives in its own logical isolation with row-level security; benchmarks (when shown) are computed from anonymized aggregates.
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