AWS Cost Explorer vs. Usage AI

Overview
ProductRatingMost Used ByProduct SummaryStarting Price
AWS Cost Explorer
Score 8.1 out of 10
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AWS Cost Explorer's interface is used to visualize, understand, and manage AWS costs and usage over time. Users can get custom reports that analyze cost and usage data, and analyze data at a high level (for example, total costs and usage across all accounts), or dive deeper into cost and usage data to identify trends, pinpoint cost drivers, and detect anomalies.N/A
Usage AI
Score 0.0 out of 10
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Usage helps companies save on their AWS bill through cloud contract arbitrage. Today, companies suffer from a lack of liquidity on the AWS marketplace, forcing them to either: Use long-term AWS contracts, with their financial risk or Use AWS on-demand Usage’s liquidity pool of AWS contracts gives companies the low price of long-term reservations, but “on-demand.N/A
Pricing
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Free Trial
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Free/Freemium Version
NoYes
Premium Consulting/Integration Services
NoNo
Entry-level Setup FeeNo setup feeNo setup fee
Additional DetailsOur only fee is 20% of the savings we find you.
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Community Pulse
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AWS Cost Explorer
Chose AWS Cost Explorer
AWS Cost Explorer is being used because it is fastest. All other third-party tools are taking almost 3 days to give correct costs; however, at AWS Cost Explorer, we are getting visibility in just 2 days. However, the gap is that we cannot have a visibility of unit economics in …
Chose AWS Cost Explorer
It is pretty comparable. We selected Cloudability, Cubecost and AWS Cost Explorer. It provides more comprehensive predictivity.
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Medium-sized Companies
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Score 8.6 out of 10
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Enterprises
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Score 8.9 out of 10
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User Ratings
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Likelihood to Recommend
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Usability
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User Testimonials
AWS Cost ExplorerUsage AI
Likelihood to Recommend
Detect sudden increases in spending and drill down to root causes. Review monthly AWS bills to identify top services and accounts driving costs. Monitor costs against budgets and set alerts to prevent overspending. Predict upcoming costs based on historical trends for financial planning. Allocate costs to teams or projects using tags and linked accounts. Check utilization of Reserved Instances or Savings Plans for optimization.
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Pros
  • Cost management
  • Cost Recommendations
  • Forecast
  • Usage
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Cons
  • granular data such as Kubernetes usage, cost and optimization
  • spot recommendations
  • granular data such as AI usage, cost and optimization
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Usability
Very good mature interface, keeping one scale point to improve further with interactive dashboard/report capabilites, etc. Good enough to work with the costs for FinOps, we can get almost all the cost analysis details at the same place, but a unit economics visibility at the same dashboard would be great
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Alternatives Considered
AWS Cost Explorer is being used because it is fastest. All other third-party tools are taking almost 3 days to give correct costs; however, at AWS Cost Explorer, we are getting visibility in just 2 days. However, the gap is that we cannot have a visibility of unit economics in AWS Cost Explorer
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Return on Investment
  • It is the foundation for FinOps - so all the cost optimization is possible because of visibility by AWS Cost Explorer.
  • Quick cost visibility with ~2 days of delay to get complete cost
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ScreenShots

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Screenshot of Save up on AWS spending.Screenshot of Usage provides reserved instances with a buyback guarantee.Screenshot of Maximize coverage, and minimize spendScreenshot of Flex RIs Usage offers to achieve maximum results with minimum spendScreenshot of See how other companies saved with UsageScreenshot of