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FinOpsly

Also known as: ASK FI, TrueCost Optimizer, Costix, FinOpsly FI

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Entry priceFree under $50K annual tech spend; paid from $12,000/yearFull pricing detail

AI cost governance platform for cloud, data and AI spend: estimates cost in the IDE before it is committed, gates it as a required check on pull requests, attributes every dollar to an owner down to a single end user, and acts under policy with human approval and rollback on every agent action.

FinOpsly is an AI cost governance platform that treats cloud, data and AI spend as one governed estate, not three bills. Its argument is that a dashboard is a receipt, showing what has already been spent, so the platform works ahead of the invoice. It predicts the cost in the editor, gates it in the pipeline, attributes every dollar to an owner, and acts on it under policy.

The work runs as a four-stage loop. Plan estimates cost before anything is built: Costix turns a described application into an architecture blueprint and a cost estimate, and FI Pulse brings the same number into the IDE, pricing a Terraform plan against live provider rates as an engineer writes, from the command line, and as a required status check on every pull request. A merge is blocked when the estimated monthly cost breaks the limit and clears when it is back within budget.

Explain attributes spend down to a single end user, joining tokens, compute and data into a cost-to-serve figure that rolls up per customer; Ask FI, an MCP agent, answers those questions in plain language inside Microsoft Teams and GitHub Copilot. Act sets budgets, caps and guardrails by team, app and environment, detects anomalies and runaway usage, models commitment coverage as a purchase plan the customer executes in their own account, raises right-sizing as a change in Jira or ServiceNow, and parks non-production on an approved schedule. Prove tracks realized savings, not projected ones, against a no-action baseline, re-baselined over time, with chargeback and forecasts for finance.

The platform governs spend across AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery and Kubernetes, alongside AI providers including OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, Azure OpenAI and Vertex AI and developer tools such as GitHub Copilot and Cursor. FinOpsly plans commitments but does not buy them, and it raises right-sizing as a ticket instead of applying it.

Security and access are published as six controls: role-based access with least privilege, SAML or OIDC single sign-on with centralized provisioning, agents that respect each user's data boundaries, an audit history where every change, approval and automated action is logged and reversible, encryption with tenant isolation and configurable controls, and policy-governed human approval on every agent action. FinOpsly is SOC 2 certified and a FinOps Foundation member.

Pricing is published and deliberately simple: free forever for companies under $50,000 of annual tech spend, then a fixed annual platform fee banded by that spend at $12,000, $24,000 or $36,000, with custom terms above $500,000. There are no per-seat or per-cloud charges and the fee is never a percentage of the bill. FI Pulse, IdleGuard and Costix are add-on modules on the lower tiers and included at enterprise. The platform is transactable on both the AWS and Azure marketplaces, drawing down against existing committed cloud spend.

Vendor details

Canonical URL

https://www.finopsly.com

Category

Enterprise operations agent

Subcategory

AI native FinOps and cloud cost governance

Funding status

Private; FinOps Foundation member; built by FinOps practitioners, engineers, and scientists

Company status

independent

Use cases & customers

Primary use cases

Multi cloud cost optimization and governancePre deployment cost planning and forecasting (Costix)ML driven rate and usage optimization (TrueCost)Cost anomaly detection (Radar)Natural language cost analysis (ASK FI)

Target customers

FinOps and platform engineering teamsFinance, FP&A, and cloud leadersMSPs managing multiple customer cloud environments

Deployment options

SaaSMicrosoft Azure Marketplace

Integrations

Multi cloud coverage across AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, and Databricks; integrates with ticketing systems including JIRA and ServiceNow to measure realized savings; available via Microsoft Azure Marketplace; natural language and voice interaction through ASK FI; enterprise grade compliant LLM framework.

In practice

An engineer asks ASK FI in natural language why last week's Snowflake spend spiked and gets root cause diagnostics plus a ranked list of optimization actions.

Costix builds an architecture aware forecast before a deployment so the team models spend against policy templates and compares forecasts to actuals afterward.

Radar detects a cost anomaly and FinOpsly executes a governed optimization with an approval guardrail, then measures realized savings through a JIRA ticket.

Agentic Index coverage score

10.0 / 14 capabilities · 71%

Integrations & Tool Calling Full

Named connectors cover cloud providers (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud), data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks, BigQuery), monitoring (Datadog), developer tools (GitHub, Cursor), Kubernetes and ticketing (Jira, ServiceNow). On the AI side they cover OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI, GitHub Copilot, Cursor and ChatGPT Enterprise, and Microsoft Teams and GitHub Copilot also serve as agent surfaces. FinOpsly writes into the customer's systems.

Right sizing is raised as a change in Jira or ServiceNow and tracked to done, schedule based parking powers down non production resources off hours and brings them back on time, and the CI status check writes a merge verdict into the customer's code host. FinOpsly plans commitments but the customer purchases them, since commitments cannot be reversed, and for right sizing FinOpsly initiates while the customer's systems execute. FinOpsly reads from more systems than it acts in, and the model providers named here are cost lines it governs, not models it runs. There is no integrations catalog, connector count or custom connector option.

Sourcefinopsly.com homepage connector strip, AI/Cloud/Data pillar panels and optimizer flowread 2026-09-14

Workflow Orchestration Full

One governed control loop runs across AI, cloud and data, in which FinOpsly plans, explains, acts and proves, continuously. Each of the four stages has its own components: Plan (Costix, FI Pulse), Explain (Ask FI, FI Teams), Act (Optimizer, Radar) and Prove (Realized Savings, Chargeback). The loop closes, because realized savings are re-baselined into the run rate, which feeds the next plan.

FinOpsly calls its multi agent architecture a system of action, in which AI agents handle pattern recognition, forecasting and anomaly detection while teams keep full control over decisions. Radar detects, the Optimizer ranks and initiates, Ask FI answers and Costix estimates. Work crosses systems with its state carried along.

A wastage finding becomes a right sizing recommendation, is raised in Jira or ServiceNow and tracked to done, and the closed ticket is folded back into the realized savings baseline. Budgets, caps and guardrails by team, app and environment decide what proceeds, and the CI gate blocks or clears a merge on a threshold. There is no workflow builder, canvas, named runtime, BPMN, graph or versioning, so the customer sets policy thresholds and schedules but not the sequence.

Sourcefinopsly.com homepage governed control loop and four pillars, optimizer ticket flow, marketplace.microsoft.com multi-agent architectureread 2026-09-14

Knowledge Grounding & RAG Partial

The central claim is one model across the AI and SaaS platforms a customer already runs, with one policy set, not three tools stitched together. Spend from AI tokens, cloud compute and data warehouses is normalized into a single cost to serve figure. Attribution threads every dollar from the app down to a single user across tokens, compute and data, then rolls it back up to the customer, and a worked example attributes $7.46 per user per month across three cost classes. Ask FI queries this data in natural language.

There is no index, graph or embeddings layer, and FinOpsly does not describe how Ask FI reaches an answer. The data model holds the customer's cost data, which the product exists to analyze, not a knowledge layer over the customer's own knowledge. Automated cost allocation with no dependence on tags suggests inference over resource relationships, but the mechanism is not described.

Sourcefinopsly.com homepage one-model and cost-to-serve panels, cost lineage worked exampleread 2026-09-14

Human Oversight & Guardrails Full

Every agent action goes through policy governed, human in the loop approval and can be rolled back, so a person validates before the commit and there is no autonomous path around it. FinOpsly draws the boundary itself in two places. For commitments, it is a scenario planner that models and risk scores coverage but does not buy commitments for the customer, because commitments cannot be reversed, so the modeling happens before the customer commits in its own account.

For right sizing, FinOpsly raises a change in Jira or ServiceNow and tracks it to done, and the customer's systems apply it. Parking, the one automatic path, runs on a policy schedule the customer approves and un-parks automatically. Every action is explainable, bounded by policy and reversible, under what FinOpsly calls Value-Control, and budgets, caps and guardrails by team, app and environment sit on top. There is no approval queue screen, approver role model or escalation path.

Sourcefinopsly.com homepage governed automation item, commitment planner and optimizer disclaimers, Act pillarread 2026-09-14

Security, Identity & Governance Full

Role based access control offers granular permissions by function and scope across finance, product and engineering, with least privilege by default, and SAML or OIDC single sign on comes with centralized user provisioning and deprovisioning. The agents are permission aware, so Ask FI and the other agents respect each user's data boundaries with no data leaking across scopes, and an agent takes on the asking user's scope instead of holding its own.

A SOC 2 certified badge sits in the footer beside the FinOps Foundation member badge. The Azure Marketplace listing says all actions are logged and exportable for SOC 2 and ISO 27001 audits, which supports the customer's own audits and does not mean FinOpsly holds either certification. Encryption and tenant isolation support this. FinOpsly gives no SOC 2 type, auditor, report date or trust center, and has no security page beyond a six item block on its homepage.

Sourcefinopsly.com homepage enterprise-grade block and footer trust badgesread 2026-09-14

Observability & Auditability Full

Every change, approval and automated action is logged, attributed and reversible in an audit ready history. That covers changes the platform made, approvals people gave and automated actions it took, and because each entry names who or what did it, a reader can reconstruct why. Every action is explainable, bounded by policy and reversible under Value-Control, and undoing an action relies on a record of exactly what changed. Right sizing raised in Jira or ServiceNow and tracked to done gives each recommendation a ticket, an owner and an end state outside the platform as well as inside it.

The Prove pillar folds every executed plan and closed ticket into the run rate, which is then re-baselined. More than twenty cost data views, anomaly dashboards and root cause diagnostics report on the customer's spend, not on the agent. There is no stated retention period, export path, trace view for each run or admin view of activity across users, and the audit history is a one line item in a security block, not a documented feature.

Sourcefinopsly.com homepage audit-ready history item and Value-Control line, optimizer ticket flowread 2026-09-14

Memory & State Persistence Partial

The agents hold conversation state within a session and nothing beyond it. Ask FI answers in Microsoft Teams and GitHub Copilot, and a worked exchange shows a question, an answer and a follow up option, Break down by user. Billing history is the customer's business record that the product analyzes, not agent memory, and deleting it would delete what the platform reports on.

Realized savings are re-baselined quarterly so future savings are measured against the current run rate, an accounting adjustment, not state an agent reads to decide. There is no memory layer with a set scope and lifetime, no retention period or purge path, and no way for an agent to carry context from one run to the next. The MCP surface is read only, and nothing says Ask FI remembers earlier questions.

Sourcefinopsly.com homepage Ask FI Teams exchange, Prove pillar re-baselining panelread 2026-09-14

Deployment & Data Residency Partial

Data security and isolation cover encryption in transit and at rest, tenant isolation and configurable data residency controls, and that is all FinOpsly says about where data sits. No region is named, there is no VPC, private cloud, on premises or customer tenant option, and FinOpsly does not show where residency is chosen or what the choices are. Tenant isolation separates customers inside FinOpsly's own estate and does not let a customer choose where the software runs. The product can be bought through the Microsoft Azure Marketplace, which is a way to purchase, not a way to deploy.

Sourcefinopsly.com homepage enterprise-grade block, data security and isolation itemread 2026-09-14

Prebuilt Agents, Templates & Packs Full

Six named products appear under Product in the site footer, each with its own page under /product/. They are Costix, ASK FI, Spendsight, TrueCost Optimizer, Radar, and Budgets & Forecasting. Two carry trademark marks, and Costix also runs on its own subdomain, costix.finopsly.com, as a FinOpsly module with its own pilot access program.

Each does its own job, pre build estimation, natural language querying, cost analysis, optimization, anomaly detection or forecasting, and each works without the others, so Costix still estimates an architecture's cost without Radar, and TrueCost Optimizer still ranks rate and usage optimizations without Spendsight. The four pillars, Plan, Explain, Act and Prove, are the platform's loop, not products. FinOpsly publishes no pricing for each module and does not say whether one can be bought without the others.

Sourcefinopsly.com footer product menu, costix.finopsly.com module descriptionread 2026-09-14

Triggers & Channel Coverage Full

Work reaches FinOpsly in three ways. Anomalies and threshold breaches start work. FinOpsly catches wastage and anomalies and acts under policy, Radar is a named detection module with its own product page, the AI pillar alerts on runaway usage, and the aim is to catch a spend movement before the commit, not after the invoice. Parking runs on a calendar, powering down non production resources off hours and bringing them back on time, with a worked schedule of Monday to Friday 8pm to 7am plus weekends and automatic un-parking.

A pull request in the customer's code host also starts work, since FinOpsly runs as a required check on every pull request, and engineers can run finopsly cost plan from their terminal. Ask FI in Teams and GitHub Copilot, the IDE cost lens and the dashboards are where output appears, not how work arrives. There is no webhook endpoint, cron syntax or event subscription model, so these triggers are known from product behavior, not from a named interface.

Sourcefinopsly.com homepage Act pillar, shift-left CI gate and parking schedule panelsread 2026-09-14

Model Flexibility & Routing Not documented

No model is named for FinOpsly itself, and there is no model routing. The many model providers on its site, OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, Vertex AI, GitHub Copilot, Cursor and ChatGPT Enterprise, covering inference, embeddings, fine tuning and agent calls, are cost lines in the customer's AI estate that FinOpsly governs, not models that run FinOpsly.

Ask FI and the FI agents are described by what they do, as an MCP agent and as permission aware AI that respects each user's data boundaries, with no provider, family or version named for the platform's own reasoning. Customers cannot choose a model, with no model selector, setting for each agent or bring your own key path. So on a product about AI spend, a customer cannot learn what its cost governance agent costs to run. The compliant LLM framework language describes data handling, not which model is used.

Sourcefinopsly.com homepage AI pillar and Ask FI panels, marketplace.microsoft.com FinOpsly listingread 2026-09-14

APIs, SDKs & MCP Extensibility Partial

Two surfaces let an outside caller reach FinOpsly. Ask FI is an MCP agent, so anyone can pull the same number in plain English without opening a dashboard, in Microsoft Teams or inside a customer's own assistant, where it is marked as the same agent in GitHub Copilot, over MCP and read only. A CLI shows a real invocation, ~/infra $ finopsly cost plan, which returns an estimate and a budget verdict, and the same intelligence runs as a required status check in CI.

No API or SDK sits behind them. The footer has Product, Resource and Company columns with no developers or documentation entry, and docs.finopsly.com exists but its search preview shows marketing copy, not a reference. There are no published endpoints, authentication details or ways to write into FinOpsly from outside, and read only is a scope, not an authentication scheme.

Sourcefinopsly.com homepage Ask FI MCP panel and CLI panel, footer navigationread 2026-09-14

Testing, Debugging & Optimization Full

After deployment, FinOpsly checks its own decisions against what would have happened without them. The Prove pillar tracks realized savings, not projected ones, folding every executed plan and closed ticket into the run rate and re-baselining it, and charts a no action baseline against the actual run rate and realized savings, re-baselined quarterly. Savings are validated through telemetry before they are recorded. Because the baseline asks what the bill would have been had the system done nothing, the comparison measures the agent's decisions.

In the release path, FinOpsly prices a Terraform plan as a required status check on every pull request, so without a green estimate there is no merge, though what that tests is the customer's infrastructure code. There is no test harness, scored test case, A/B comparison between agent setups or accuracy measure for Ask FI's answers. Forecast versus actual comparisons measure the customer's spend, not the agent.

Sourcefinopsly.com homepage Prove pillar and realized savings chart, shift-left CI gate panel, marketplace.microsoft.com telemetry validationread 2026-09-14

Browser & Computer Use Not documented

No agent drives a hosted or local browser, desktop session or remote computer. Every action path is programmatic. Billing and usage come in through cloud and SaaS connectors, right sizing is raised as a ticket in Jira or ServiceNow, parking runs on a policy schedule against cloud resources, and a cost verdict is written into a CI status check. The surfaces that look like interfaces are places a person works.

The IDE cost lens shows an estimate beside Terraform in the engineer's editor, Ask FI answers inside Microsoft Teams and GitHub Copilot, and the CLI runs in the engineer's terminal, so in each case a person is at the keyboard and FinOpsly supplies a number. A CLI or shell is not computer use, nothing targets a UI element, and pulling billing data from AWS, Azure, Snowflake and the rest is ingestion.

Sourcefinopsly.com homepage shift-left IDE and CLI panels, Ask FI surfaces, optimizer execution boundariesread 2026-09-14

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Recent platform changes

2026-08-12·Agent capabilityPartially Verified

FinOpsly launched a new AI Cost Governance framework to help enterprises track and control AI expenditures. The release includes Costix for pre-deployment cost modeling of AI workloads and Ask FI for attributing spending directly within Microsoft Teams and GitHub Copilot. It also introduces automated detection of cost spikes and runaway agents, routing alerts to accountable owners.

Bears on: Observability / auditability

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View all 1 change for FinOpsly →Tracked since Aug 2026 · Verified from public vendor sources

Pricing

Free under $50K annual tech spend; paid from $12,000/year

Fixed annual platform fee banded by the customer's own annual tech spend across cloud, data platforms and AI. Explicitly not per seat, not per cloud, and not a percentage of the governed bill.

Free tier

What is public

Almost everything. Three tiers with exact annual figures, a spend-band table mapping tech spend to fee, a per-tier feature list, a projected-ROI table, and a six-question pricing FAQ answering what counts as tech spend, whether the free tier is real, and whether the vendor takes a percentage of the bill. Both marketplace listings are linked. What is not published: the price of the three add-on modules, the terms of savings-based pricing, Enterprise figures above $500K of tech spend, and multi-year discount levels.

Billing mechanics

A fixed annual platform fee banded by the buyer's own annual tech spend across cloud, data platforms and AI: free under $50K, $12,000 a year at $50K to $150K, $24,000 at $150K to $300K, $36,000 at $300K to $500K, and custom above $500K. No per seat, per cloud or percentage of the bill. Paid tiers route to a demo booking, and the platform is transactable on the AWS and Azure marketplaces against committed cloud spend. FI Pulse, IdleGuard and Costix are add ons at Starter and Growth and included at Enterprise.

Cost watchouts

FinOps platforms commonly price as a percentage of cloud spend under management or by number of connected accounts and modules; confirm whether savings share or flat fee applies.

Variable cost rationale

Low, and for once this is evidenced rather than assumed. The vendor publishes a fixed annual platform fee per band and rules out the three usual sources of variability by name: no per-seat charges (INVITE THE WHOLE TEAM), no per-cloud fees (EVERY PROVIDER INCLUDED), and never a percentage of the governed bill (WE DON'T PROFIT FROM YOUR SPEND). Within a band the fee does not move with usage, which is the definition of low exposure. Two qualifications keep it from zero: the band itself is indexed to the customer's own annual tech spend, so growth in the governed estate steps the fee up, and the savings-based alternative offered to Growth and Enterprise is variable by construction. Score moved 0.5 to 0.2 on the published rate card.

Additional watchouts

The tier is set by the buyer's own annual tech spend, so the fee steps up as the governed estate grows - a band change is a price rise with no change in what is delivered, and the bands are narrow at the bottom ($50K-$150K, then $150K-$300K). Confirm how and when a band is reassessed, and whether a mid-term increase in cloud spend triggers a mid-term fee change or waits for renewal. Three capabilities a buyer may assume are core are add-ons at Starter and Growth and are unpriced: FI Pulse, IdleGuard and Costix - which means the IDE cost lens and the CI budget gate, the most distinctive things on the estate, are not in the $12K figure. The savings-based option inverts the incentive the vendor otherwise advertises, since a share of realized savings is a cut of the outcome; worth pricing against the fixed fee rather than assuming it is cheaper. The ROI table is projection, labeled as such by the vendor.

Sales call required

Yes, required for paid access

Free / trial

No public free tier documented; demo request and Azure Marketplace listing

Lowest paid plan

Growth - $12,000/year, for annual tech spend between $50K and $150K

Key ambiguities

The price is published exactly while the purchase motion stays sales led. finopsly.com/pricing publishes three tiers with exact figures, a spend band table, an ROI table and a pricing FAQ, but even the free tier's Start free button routes to a contact form and both paid tiers route to a demo booking. The free tier is genuinely free rather than a trial: under $50K in annual tech spend, the full core platform is "free forever," with no card and no trial clock. It is gated by the customer's own spend rather than by feature, so no enterprise buyer reaches it, and $12,000 a year at the $50K to $150K band is the real entry point. The unit of sale is unusual: the fee is banded by the buyer's own annual tech spend across cloud, data platforms and AI, so the meter is the size of the problem rather than seats, consumption or cloud count. The vendor states the anti model explicitly ("No per-seat. No per-cloud. No cut of your bill.") and argues the incentive openly: "Our incentive is to shrink your spend, not ride it." Two alternative motions are published and neither is priced. Savings based pricing, where the fee is a share of measured realized savings, is offered to Growth and Enterprise on request. A 60 day budget positive guarantee is offered at Enterprise: "We target savings that cover the fee inside the first two months," and the vendor invites buyers to put it in the contract. Three modules are add ons rather than included at Starter and Growth: FI Pulse (IDE and CI cost gating), IdleGuard (policy parking) and Costix (pre deploy estimation). They are included at Enterprise. None is separately priced, so the effective cost of the shift left capability at Growth is unpublished. FinOpsly is listed on both the AWS and Azure marketplaces, and the stated benefit on both is drawing the fee down against existing committed cloud spend, which for a committed buyer changes the budget it comes out of rather than only the procurement path.

Missing data

The price of the three add on modules (FI Pulse, IdleGuard and Costix), the terms of savings based pricing, Enterprise figures above $500K of tech spend, multi year discount levels, and how and when a spend band is reassessed.

Agentic Index verified 2026-09-14

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