Finout Reviews & Product Details

Finout is an enterprise FinOps platform specifically designed to manage and optimize cloud and AI spending. It consolidates costs from major cloud providers such as AWS, Azure, GCP, and OCI, along with Kubernetes, SaaS, and AI expenditures into a single governed data layer. This integration allows finance and engineering teams to operate from a unified source of truth, facilitating accurate allocation, ownership tracking, unit economics analysis, and strategic planning. In an era where AI usage fluctuates rapidly and environments scale across multiple clouds, Finout provides the necessary tools to navigate complex financial landscapes. Targeting organizations that rely heavily on cloud and AI technologies, Finout addresses the unique challenges associated with AI spending. AI costs often manifest across various layers, including cloud AI services like Amazon Bedrock and Azure OpenAI, direct contracts with AI providers, AI-native developer tools, and usage-based SaaS tools. Finout simplifies the management of these costs by ingesting data from all four layers without requiring code changes. This capability enables teams to analyze spending by model, team, and token, allowing for precise tracking of costs per token, per request, or per agent run. Such insights empower finance teams to demonstrate AI ROI while enabling engineering teams to identify and eliminate inefficiencies. A standout feature of Finout is its patented MegaBill, which provides a unified view of cloud, Kubernetes, SaaS, and AI expenditures. The platform's Instant Virtual Tagging, enhanced by AI, allows for the seamless allocation of both tagged and untagged spending to the appropriate owners without necessitating infrastructure modifications. This dynamic allocation process adapts instantly to organizational changes, ensuring that shared costs are accurately reallocated and financial plans are updated in real-time. Additionally, features such as pod-level Kubernetes allocation, forecasting, anomaly detection, and CostGuard waste detection are integrated into the platform, providing a comprehensive suite of tools for financial oversight. Finout also includes an AI FinOps assistant named Billy, which responds to cost inquiries in straightforward language while providing contextual information about each customer's environment. Specialized Finout agents actively monitor for waste, drift, and anomalies, conducting root cause analyses and managing approved actions through platforms like Jira, Slack, and ServiceNow, all while maintaining governance and audit trails. Organizations can further enhance their AI workflows by connecting their agents to the governed data layer through Finout's MCP server, cost and usage API, and Data Exporter, ensuring consistency in financial data across all operations. With compliance certifications such as SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, and GDPR, Finout is trusted by leading FinOps teams at companies like Lyft, The New York Times, Wiz, and Tenable. This platform not only streamlines financial operations but also equips organizations with the insights needed to thrive in a rapidly evolving technological landscape.

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Finout

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English, Hebrew

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Best-of-Breed

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$1,000.00

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Roi A.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/7/2023

"Best cost observability tool you can find"

5/5

What do you like best about Finout?

a comprehensive set of tools that helps me see everything that is happening. They listen to our needs and implement a fast and high-quality solution. FinOut managed to pass more mature products in a very fast time and today they are the leader on the market. the data is accurate and they help me aggregate multiple sources and see everything in one place. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Finout?

All products are still young and not perfect and Finout is the same. there is still a long way to go but as I mentioned they are still the leaders when compared to alternatives. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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stefan a.

DevOps Engineer

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

Updated 1/24/2023

Originally submitted 1/12/2023

"Easy to manage Kubernetes and Cloud Costs with Finout Dashboards"

5/5

What do you like best about Finout?

- Easy to manage cloud and kubernetes costs

- Recommendations for resizing is cool and helpful to reducing costs

- Reliable

- Easy to create Dashboards Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Finout?

completely i like the product but can include more cloud providers like DigitalOcean Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Kunal K.

Manager

Small-Business (50 or fewer emp.)

Updated 1/15/2023

Originally submitted 1/12/2023

"Finout has been extremely helpful with cost management!"

5/5

What do you like best about Finout?

While the market is filled with legacy products such as CloudHealth & Cloudabillity or optimization tools such as Zesty & Spot, no tool supports a company's cloud infrastructure and gives them the ability to create a business unit such as cost per customer, feature, or segment, all on one platform. Finout's platform can also actively help reduce infrastructure costs from day one with no extra charge using a cost optimization layer called CostGuard.

Finout's ability to give any user-customizable dashboards and reporting systems means that Finance, Sales, IT, DevOps, and C-level all can see exactly what they need in seconds without bothering DevOps teams. Additional benefits are the fact that the platform is very easy to use without having to change any code or configuration settings. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Finout?

Nothing in particular. It's amazing for what they offer. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What problems is Finout solving and how is that benefiting you?

Today, nearly every organization runs its applications and systems in the cloud. This helps them in avoiding to have to buy physical infrastructure and just use resources that are available in the cloud. This is a good practice as the infrastructure can be scaled in just a few clicks or the entire scaling process can be automated as well.

This introduces its own set of challenges as many times, you might be spending money on resources that are not being utilized by your application. This is what we call invisible costs. You are paying for it, but no one knows what are you paying for.

Finout’s cloud cost management platform combines all invoices into one Mega-bill, enabling you to see every cloud service you are paying for in one single bill. It combines infrastructure services from cloud providers, data warehouses, and CDNs including Amazon Web Services (AWS), Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Microsoft Azure, Datadog, Kubernetes, and Snowflake as well as middleware such as Stripe, Twilio, and AuthO. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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François T.

Product Manager

Enterprise (> 1000 emp.)

5/10/2023

"Very good tool to track tech expenses"

5/5

What do you like best about Finout?

The overview panel is well-designed. It helps you understand how your week/month/year of tech expenditure will look like. We had no issue setting it up in our company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Finout?

The interface is very detailed and offers many choices for customisation. All of the options available might be a bit 😦 at first but the documentation helped us here. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Boaz W.

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

3/5/2023

"Fantastic Cost Visibility Solution"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Finout?

Finout allows us to run super-detailed reports on our cloud costs. With it, we can have very granular visibility into the costs and impact of our infrastructure. As a DevOps Engineer, I don't have time to review Cost Reports, so Finout saves me time and money. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Finout?

The UI/UX is still in development, so while it constantly improves, there is still a learning curve. It can also be challenging to find the relevant metrics and filters needed to generate the proper report or breakdown. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Consumer Goods

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/21/2023

"Finout ease finops recommendation and understanding"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Finout?

Powerful UI, easy to filter and the reactivity of the team to implement new features or integrate new cost centers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Finout?

Maybe to not have a data refresh every minute Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Financial Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

Updated 9/27/2023

Originally submitted 8/11/2022

"Good product that adds more and more features, the team behind is quick&attentive to industry needs"

4.5/5

What do you like best about Finout?

The agility of the system, fast-solving, saving ideas, cooperative team Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Finout?

In order to better understand the usage, more metrics are missing. Vtags can be changed by everyone and they can't be locked. folders and tagging for view, dashboards and vtag is missing Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

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Verified User in Financial Services

Mid-Market (51-1000 emp.)

9/21/2023

"Great tool to collect all cost metrics in one place"

4/5

What do you like best about Finout?

the Finout tool helped us by collecting all cost data in one place and allow dashboarding over it, and saved timee in manual work or custom scripts. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What do you dislike about Finout?

the UI is not always 100% intuitive and clear Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.