Cloud Cost Savings for SMBs| Costimizer

The Biggest Cloud Spend Challenges for SMBs

The rules are different when you are scaling beyond the initial startup stage. Your engineering department is expanding, your product is complicated and all of a sudden, cloud management has turned into a big pain, which is consuming your operational budget.

Poor Discounts: You receive average, on-demand pricing since your expenditure is not substantial to get bulk deals at Enterprise level, and you have to pay more per service.
Isolated Cost Data: You have begun leveraging several cloud services (Multi-cloud) and your finance department cannot easily consolidate or compare the invoices, and you are leaving potential savings untapped.
Engineering Overheads: You can not afford to pay a full-time FinOps manager. Your engineers are compelled to spend precious development time manually tracking spend rather than developing features.
Scaling Blind: You are aware that resources are being wasted, but you do not have the granular data required to tie spend to the product features or projects that are actually generating revenue.
High Cloud Cost slowing digital transformation: Manual processes, poor visibility, and uncontrolled cloud expenses inflate your operational costs limiting your ability to invest in true digital transformation

How Costimizer Puts SMBs Ahead

Immediate Discounts

Have access to our collective Enterprise discounts immediately by integrating your AWS/GCP/Azure billing. Get a reduced price beginning the following month without negotiation or commitment.

Full Multi-Cloud Visibility

Receive a straightforward, unified dashboard that normalizes expenditure data across all of your vendors. Compare the actual costs against each other to make strategic scaling decisions.

Automated Waste Removal

No longer have to use engineers to identify manual errors. We have our system automatically search idle resources and close dev environments after hours, and the cash wasted is immediately recovered.

Feature-Level Cost Accountability

Simple Pools and tagging can be used to distinctly attribute all dollars of cloud spend, including Kubernetes costs, to a particular project or Business Unit. Give teams the autonomy to manage their budgets.

Free Up Cash Flow for Innovation

By automating optimization and eliminating wasteful cloud spend, Costimizer helps you reduce operational overheads and improve liquidity. Redirect your savings toward product innovation, AI initiatives, and digital transformation — where your growth truly happens.

The SMB Toolkit of Intelligent Cloud Scaling

1. Unified Billing & Instant Bulk Discounts

We bundle all of your bills (AWS, GCP, Azure) into a single, easy payment.
Get the significant bulk discounts we have negotiated at once.
No contracts, no minimums, and no technical changes. You have a smaller bill next month, that's all!

2. Multi-Cloud Cost Calculator

On our cost calculator, you can easily compare the prices of the cloud services you actually use in a simple, side-by-side comparison.
Immediately get the lowest cost provider (AWS vs. GCP) of every service.
Understand where to add new features to achieve the maximum savings.

3. Shared Environments

We automatically allocate 100 percent of your joint expenses with simple pools and virtual tags.
Who is driving the spend, even on shared resources, or Kubernetes clusters that are not tagged?
Hold engineers responsible by demonstrating to them the real cost of their feature or project.

4. Resource Shutdown (Automated)

Our Zombie Resource Hunter identifies and removes idle servers and old backups automatically.
Shutting down all non-production resources automatically at night and on weekends.
Learn how to get smart tips on right-sizing to be on the cheapest, best-fit type of server.

5. Real-Time Anomaly Detection

Our Predictive Cost Analytics continuously monitors your expenditure to identify unexpected cost increases immediately.
We inform you of any anomaly through Slack within 15 minutes--not 30 days later on your bill.
Make 95 or higher cost forecasts monthly to ensure that you are aware of your budget and runway.

6. Centralized Team Dashboard

Have all your spending (AWS, GCP, Azure) on a single dashboard.
Send notifications about spending, budget constraints, or spikes to the Slack or email channel of the appropriate team.
Provide a single source of truth to all, including the owner and the developers, to view their slice of the cloud pie.

Old Way vs. The Costimizer Way

❌ The Old Way	The Costimizer Way
Paying full list price and hoping your spending qualifies for future discounts.	Getting 15-30% of bulk discounts on the first day.
Engineers manually comparing pricing calculators for every new workload.	Real-time evidence of the lowest cost alternative of all your cloud providers.
Shared service costs are a confusing black hole on your balance sheet.	Full transparency of the expenses spent on each team, feature, or project.
High burn rate and cloud unpredictability slow down your growth planning.	Less operational expenditure will raise cash runway and allow quicker growth.

Scaling SMBs on Cloud Spend Dos and Don'ts.

✅Do's	❌Don'ts
Consolidate your billing to immediately capture bulk discounts and pay less.	Pay the full list price when Enterprise-level savings are available to you.
Use cross-cloud comparison to run dev/test on the cheapest provider available.	Keep guessing which cloud solution is the most economical to your workload.
Automate waste detection (like zombie resource hunting) to protect your runway.	Trust to manual reviews that find expensive mistakes 30 days too late on your monthly bill.
Give engineering teams clear visibility and cost allocation so they can help save.	View cloud costs as a black box that is confusing and unpredictable and is handled by finance.

Frequently Asked Questions

We are small at the moment, but we are likely to grow fast. Is Costimizer scaled to our size?

Absolutely. We are designed to be efficient in scaling. You can have the instant benefits of bulk discounts today, and the advanced governance and allocation tools you will require tomorrow, without having to hire a costly FinOps team.

What is the difference between this and the free cost tools of AWS or Azure?

Native tools are in isolation; they do not tell you whether the service is cheaper on the cloud of a competitor. More to the point, they are not able to offer you our pre-negotiated bulk discounts. We provide you with the information and the savings.

We use both AWS and GCP. Is Costimizer able to do real multi-cloud comparison?

Yes. We standardize the data of all key providers into one perspective. This not only allows you to keep track of total spend but also allows you to compare the actual cost of an S3 bucket and a Google Cloud Storage bucket, including your actual applied discounts.

Does my engineering team have to waste time integrating this?

No. Integration is non-technical and read-only and is performed at the billing console level in minutes. It liberates your engineers to do FinOps work so that they can concentrate on development.