AI makes internal tooling easier to build, but cloud cost management still comes with ongoing work around provider changes, data accuracy, automation, and ownership.
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Vantage Launches Snowflake Data Sharing
Query your Vantage cost and usage data directly from your own Snowflake account using Snowflake Secure Data Sharing.
Vantage Launches Simplified Provider Filtering
Create filter sets using "All Providers" in the UI, or omit the provider entirely in VQL, to analyze multi-cloud cost data in a single view.
Vantage Launches Tag Key Columns in Active Resource Reports
Select specific tag keys and display them as custom columns within Active Resource Reports.
Token Budgeting: How To Think About AI Cost Control
Learn how to budget AI token spend across teams and developers by using cost allocation, unit costs, and efficiency metrics instead of raw usage alone.
Vantage Launches the FinOps Agent in Console
An AI assistant for cloud costs, now built directly into the Vantage console.
Introducing Vantage in Cursor
Ask questions, investigate costs, and take action on your Vantage account directly from Cursor.
AI Costs Are Cloud Costs Now
AI coding tool spend is usage-based, variable, hard to predict, and skewed by power users. It's cloud infrastructure economics all over again, and it needs the same FinOps treatment.
Your Most Expensive Developer Might Be Your Most Efficient
Per-developer AI spend data creates an instinct to rein in the top spenders. But raw cost without a denominator is meaningless - here's how to measure what agentic coding actually delivers.
Vantage Launches Filters and Value Prefixes for Collapsed Tag Keys
Scope collapsed tag keys to specific providers or accounts with filters, and prepend value prefixes to distinguish the source of each collapsed value.
The Hidden Cost Driver in Agentic Coding: It's Not the Per-Token Price
Per-token pricing gets all the visibility, but agentic sessions have a completely different cost structure. Input tokens, context accumulation, and session length are what actually drive the bill.