Stop reading your cloud invoice. Start understanding it.
Drop in your cloud billing export. Describe what your app does in one paragraph. CloudBillDecoder reads both, and writes back the clearest, most actionable cost report you've ever gotten — without a consultant on retainer.
Three steps. No screen-share with a sales engineer.
You give us the bill and the context. We give you the story.
Drop the export
Upload the CSV, XLSX, or CUR/JSON dump from your provider. We accept the raw cost & usage report — no preprocessing, no normalization on your end.
Describe your app
One paragraph is enough. "We're a B2B analytics SaaS, ~40 customers, nightly batch + a Postgres + a few async workers." Context turns numbers into meaning.
Read the report
You get a written breakdown — what each line item is, why it costs that much, and the three cuts that will move the bill the most this month.
Generic dashboards show you charts. We tell you a story.
Most cost tools assume you already know what each SKU is. We don't. That's the point.
Reads with your context
Your one-paragraph description changes everything. "Idle 8 hours/night" means something for a B2B tool and nothing for a consumer app. The AI uses both inputs.
Decodes the cryptic SKUs
"USE1-DataTransfer-Regional-Bytes" becomes "cross-AZ traffic between your app servers and Postgres — usually a placement issue, not a usage issue."
Prioritizes by impact
Three actions ranked by dollar movement, not 47 "recommendations." If a fix saves $20/month, we don't waste your morning on it.
No cloud access required
No IAM role, no read-only user, no agent. The export is enough. If your security team has ever blocked a FinOps tool, this is why we built it this way.
Written in English, not charts
You get prose you can paste into a Slack thread or send to your CFO. The numbers are still there — they're just embedded in sentences a human wrote.
Provider-agnostic
AWS, GCP, Azure, or a horror-show mix of all three after that acquisition you didn't want. One mental model across three invoices.
Cost mechanics, decoded one post at a time.
Posts written by the CloudBillDecoder team — short, opinionated, and based on real invoices.
Why your cloud bill is mostly data transfer (and you didn't notice)
Compute costs are visible. Egress and cross-AZ traffic aren't. Here's how to spot the second-biggest line you've never read.
Read the post →The context problem: why cost tools tell you to "right-size" everything
Without knowing what your app actually does, every recommendation is a guess. We argue that context is the missing input.
Read the post →How AI actually helps with cloud bills (and where it doesn't)
LLMs aren't magic forecasters. But they're remarkably good at translating SKU codes into the sentence your CFO actually wanted.
Read the post →Request beta access
We onboard a small group each week and read every signup. Tell us roughly what your stack looks like — it speeds things up.