Getting Started

Welcome to the CloudZero AI Hub

The CloudZero AI Hub is your one-stop destination for accessing powerful AI-driven tools designed to help you understand, optimize, and manage your cloud costs with unprecedented clarity and intelligence. Whether you're analyzing cost fluctuations, forecasting future spend, or seeking optimization recommendations, our suite of AI tools empowers you to make data-driven decisions with confidence.

What You'll Find Here

The AI Hub brings together CloudZero's most powerful AI capabilities and gives you a simple plugin to get started. Our tools enable you to leverage advanced machine learning and natural language processing to transform complex cloud cost data into actionable insights, helping you reduce waste, improve efficiency, and align spending with business outcomes.

Available Tools

Getting Started

There are two ways to get started with the CloudZero AI tools depending on which client you use.

Option A: Claude Code Plugin

The fastest way to get started if you use Claude Code. The plugin bundles the MCP server together with CloudZero Skills for guided cost analysis workflows.

1. Pre-requisites

• Claude Code (v2.1 or above)
• A CloudZero account

2. Installation

claude plugin marketplace add cloudzero/cloudzero-claude-marketplace
claude plugin install cost-analyst@cloudzero

3. Sign in

After opening Claude Code, run /mcp, then select plugin:cost-analyst:cloudzero and follow the instructions to sign into CloudZero.

4. (Recommended) Build your company's context

Running the below command will greatly improve your experience when using the Claude Code Plugin. This teaches Claude about your company's dimensions, cloud configurations, and context.

/plugin:cost-analyst:cloudzero:init

Option B: Manual MCP Installation

Use this method to install the CloudZero MCP server into any other supported AI client, including Cursor, VS Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and more.

1. Pre-requisites

• Node.js (v18 or later)
• A CloudZero account

2. Installation

Run the npx add-mcp command and select your client when prompted:

npx add-mcp https://czca-server.discovery.cloudzero.com/mcp -g

See the Manual MCP Installation page for the full list of supported clients and their install commands.

3. Sign in

Open your client and invoke a CloudZero tool. On first use, a browser window opens to sign in to CloudZero. If you already have an active session, authentication is automatic.

Start asking questions

Once you have installed via either method, try one of the questions below to see the magic happen!

• "Run an anomaly detection scan, then show me my top cost drivers and any trends"
• "We had a cost spike last Tuesday. Investigate what caused it and recommend actions"
• "Do a deep dive on our RDS costs and identify optimization opportunities"
• "Generate a cost breakdown by team for Q4 including service details"
• "Analyze our tag coverage and prioritize resources that need tagging"