Why we picked it The infrastructure margin leak usually shows up as a bill that crept up while you were shipping, so the fix is seeing it before it compounds. Vantage tracks and breaks down cloud spend across AWS and other providers, flags anomalies, and pushes alerts into Slack so a forgotten instance or a data-transfer spike surfaces in days, not at month end. It has a free tier that is plenty for a small team, so treat it as a starting point for building the habit of watching spend, not a full FinOps program you need on day one.
Vantage
From vantage.sh by Vantage Self-serve setup, roughly 30 minutes
- It surfaces where your cloud money actually goes, by service and environment, which is the first step to catching waste.
- Anomaly alerts into Slack catch a runaway bill early instead of at the end of the month.
- A free tier covers small teams, so the cost of monitoring your costs is basically zero.