List Cost

Overview

List Cost shows the public pricing for your cloud resources, reflecting what you would have paid without any discounts, commitments, or Enterprise Discount Plans. It uses the baseline retail price of services, offering a clear and unbiased view of your cloud spend. This empowers you to take control of your cloud expenses by providing clear, actionable insights based on public pricing data.

What are the benefits of List Cost?

• Benchmark Costs: See the raw, unadjusted pricing of your cloud usage.

• Simplify Analysis: Understand the true value of your resources without financial manipulations such as Reserved Instances (RIs), promotions, or commitment plans.

• Improve Accountability: Evaluate cost anomalies and missed savings opportunities due to lack of coverage or unused resources.

How does it work?

Finout calculates List Cost by sourcing public pricing data from each provider:

• AWS: Based on the column pricing_public_on_demand_cost.

• GCP: Based on the column cost_at_list.

• Azure: Finout calculates Azure List Cost following the FOCUS specification using this calculation varies by Azure account type:

  • Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) List Cost = PayGPrice × ExchangeRate × Quantity

  • All the rest will be List Cost = PayGPrice × Quantity

  Important:

  • List Cost returns 0 for the following cases:

    • Enterprise Agreement (EA) Marketplace charges

    • EA reservation usage when cost allocation is enabled

    • Microsoft Customer Agreement (MCA) reservation usage.

Add List Cost to a View

Add List Cost to your view to analyze your cloud spend at its raw retail value without the noise of discounts or commitments.

Navigate to any cost-related view in Finout and choose List Cost as the cost type.

• Dashboards / Widgets

  
• Data Explorer

  
• Resources

  

FAQs

Where can I see List Cost in Finout?

List Cost is available across all cost-related views in Finout, including MegaBill, Dashboards/Widgets, Data Explorer, Resources, etc

Why is List Cost missing or displayed as null for a Cost Center?

When a Cost Center doesn't support List Cost, Data Explorer will show null values in the cost column, while other views and features will filter out unsupported Cost Centers to keep the functionality streamlined.