--- updatedAt: 2026-06-05T01:22:38.000Z agentTools: projectIndex: https://docs.cloudzero.com/llms.txt --- # CloudZero Overview CloudZero is the financial control plane for your cloud and AI spend. Finance, engineering, and IT get a shared system to see what you spend, connect that spend to business outcomes, and focus on the investments that matter most. You connect your accounts, and CloudZero collects, analyzes, and organizes your cost data so every team can see exactly where money is going and what it's producing. CloudZero Explorer showing daily costs grouped by Business Unit ## What you can do with CloudZero **See all your costs in one place.** CloudZero connects to AWS, Azure, GCP, Oracle Cloud, and a growing list of SaaS and AI platforms including Databricks, Datadog, Snowflake, Anthropic, and OpenAI. All of your cost data appears in the [Explorer](/docs/explorer), where you can filter, group, and drill down by service, account, team, product, or any category you define. Explorer view showing daily costs grouped by Service **Organize costs by what matters to your business.** CloudZero lets you break down costs by team, product, feature, environment, or customer using [Dimensions](/docs/dimensions). You can build these cost breakdowns [visually](/docs/allocate-visually) or [through code](/docs/allocate-through-yaml), and share them across your organization through [Views](/docs/views). Explorer view showing costs organized by team with a results table **Get alerted when something changes.** [Anomaly Detection](/docs/anomaly-detection) monitors your spend automatically and alerts you when costs shift unexpectedly. It is on from the moment you connect, with no configuration required. Anomalies view showing detected anomalies with cost impact **Find specific ways to save.** The [Optimize](/docs/optimize) feature analyzes your environment and surfaces specific savings recommendations across AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes. Optimize page showing savings recommendations across cloud providers **Track costs per customer, transaction, or any unit.** [Unit Economics](/docs/unit-economics) lets you measure the cost of each unit your business cares about, giving finance and engineering a shared view of profitability. **Ask questions about your costs with AI.** The [AI Hub](/docs/ai-getting-started) lets you ask questions about your cloud spend in natural language and get answers backed by your actual cost data. **Stay informed automatically.** [Notifications](/docs/notifications) deliver cost trends, budget alerts, and anomaly alerts to your team's Slack channel or email. You can also schedule recurring [Dashboard](/docs/dashboards-and-analytics) reports so stakeholders stay updated without logging in. ## Who uses CloudZero * **FinOps and finance teams** use CloudZero to track spending, allocate costs to business units, set budgets, and report on cloud ROI. * **Platform and DevOps engineers** use CloudZero to understand what drives costs, catch unexpected changes, and act on optimization recommendations. * **Engineering and business leaders** use CloudZero dashboards and reports to make informed decisions about cloud investments. ## Get started See the [Quickstart](/docs/getting-started) to connect your first cloud provider and start seeing your costs. CloudZero getting started flow: connect, explore, save Have questions or feedback? Reach out to your account manager.