Finout Reviews & Product Details

What I appreciate most about Finout is how convenient and detailed it is for managing AWS costs. Our primary use is with AWS, and the platform’s ability to separate and analyze resources by tags—even when those resources are within the same AWS account is incredibly helpful. This feature gives us a much finer level of cost granularity, making it much easier to pinpoint exactly where our spending is going.

Another major advantage is Finout’s capability to identify underutilized resources. The reports clearly highlight areas where resources are not being fully utilized, which enables us to gradually right-size them rather than making abrupt or risky changes. This method has allowed us to reduce unnecessary expenses and cut costs in a more controlled and efficient manner.

I use Finout quite often, setting alerts and notifications if a specific threshold is triggered for costs

In summary, excellent visibility into AWS costs and helps transform cost data into actionable insights. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We find this product to be quite useful overall. However, the main drawback is that it cannot be deployed locally on an on-premise server. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I appreciate how Finout provides a clear and detailed overview of cloud costs across multiple platforms. The dashboards are intuitive, and the reporting tools make it easy to understand where resources are being used and identify cost-saving opportunities. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The initial setup and integration with multiple cloud accounts can be a bit complex and time-consuming. Some advanced features require a learning curve, and more detailed documentation or guided tutorials would be helpful for new users. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Finout consistently delivers outstanding results and comprehensive visibility into cost changes, which is invaluable for tracking and understanding our infrastructure spending. As a software engineer, I appreciate how it provides clear insights into cost fluctuations and helps identify optimization opportunities. The visibility it offers into cost trends and changes is exceptional and has become an essential part of our cost management workflow. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The main challenge I encountered was with the query builder interface. Building queries can be somewhat cumbersome due to the extensive lists of filters and the numerous fields and attributes available for filtering. While the abundance of options provides flexibility, it can make the process feel overwhelming and time-consuming, especially when trying to construct complex queries quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Finout allow usage based cost allocation,

It uses K8s and Prometheus metrics for shared resources (compute/ memory) to allow me as a user to decide how to distribute my cost.

If you're looking to get a clearer margins picture for your customers, and you're working multi-tenant architecture, with pool of resources for your different customers, finout is the solution.

otherwise you are always stuck with how well your labeling mechanism and attribution is.

In terms of BI, the cost history report is designed carefully, slicer search is swift and smart unlike old school tools.

You can gain a fast and accurate picture by just using the Group by which come with additional magic- not only that it slices the data it also filters only the relevant context.

for exp you group by a snowflake database name, no need to filter out any of you GCP/ AWS resources.

Anomalies report will allow you to create clear alerts based on any time scope you desire.

We're also using the Jira integration to create tickets based on the alerts defined in the system.

In general the ease of use for integration in finout is great.

Overall it is a great finops tool, which I use daily.

In terms of Customer Support I can genuinely say that the experience is amazing, a team of go getters who pushes for the best results, always places us in the first place, it almost feels like a joined operations. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It will require a more capable set of hands to understand how to get everything out of this tool, I assume that not every other business fp will easily find the right metric for allocation, it will require a level of expertise in promql, k8s and the product.

I think this "diss-advantage" is key in order to gain better visibility, but if you're looking for a smarter tool - that's the one.

I'm sure you can also work your way up with just tags- but than your losing the point of finout.

There is room to improve around Snowflake meta data integration. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Finout has become an essential part of our FinOps process. It lets us break down cloud costs not just by service or spend type but also by how we organize things—teams, departments, services. The interface is intuitive, the implementation was smooth, and the support team is responsive and open to feedback. We can now clearly measure how changes in product or infrastructure impact spending, which has helped us identify many optimization opportunities and track their actual effect. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The CostGuard Rightsizing feature could be more accurate, especially when it comes to estimating savings and showing Kubernetes resource usage details. That said, based on how quickly they’ve acted on our input before, we’re confident improvements are on the way. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I really like how Finout pulls all our cloud costs from places like AWS and Kubernetes into one single bill. The virtual tagging is also great because we can finally see exactly what each team or project is spending without a ton of manual work. It's given us much better visibility. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While it's powerful, some of the more advanced features took a bit of time to get the hang of. I also think it could offer more direct integrations with other tools we use. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Finout provides a clear and detailed view of cloud costs, making it easy to track expenses across different services and teams. I really like how customizable the dashboards are and how straightforward it is to allocate costs by project or department. The integrations with multiple platforms save a lot of manual work, and the real-time visibility helps us make smarter decisions quickly. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While Finout is very useful, it can take some time to fully configure for specific business needs, especially for complex infrastructures. The platform could benefit from even more automation features and predictive insights to proactively flag anomalies. Occasionally, some reports load slower than expected when handling very large datasets. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Finout provides a responsive and interactive cost exploration experience, which provides a strong foundation for expansive feature set. We're heavily leveraging its shared cost functionality which allows us to chargeback and allocate previously opaque platform-level costs to teams across our organization - functionality which no other vendor provides. Its virtual tagging system provides a level of flexibility and customization which allows us to abstract away complexity to our end-users. Additionally, its custom cost functionality gives us the flexibility to add any 3rd party vendor and view costs side by side with supported cloud providers, this mitigates the need for us to wait for Finout to add specific integrations with every vendor we need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Finout can be quite complex at times, which is fine for experience users, but for end-users such as engineers which may not be as familiar with the product, it can be overwhelming. The good news is that Finout is actively improving this with features such as simplified filters. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Not only does this software conform to our very complex multi-cloud environment and private pricing agreements, it is a tool that was quickly and widely embraced by our engineering and business leadership teams. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Due to some of our complex and detailed reporting requirements not all features can currently support our data export requirements. Fortunately, the Finout team has taken our feedback seriously and is implementing changes to a future platform release and was willing to manually assist with exporting the data we require until the feature release. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

VirtualTags - Really powerful way to get your infrastructure costs attributed to your liking.

Provides multiple ways to slice & dice through the data. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

API Support - Currently the API is really basic and would love to see an API first approach. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.