Finout Pros and Cons

Finout offers an exceptional platform for managing cloud costs, providing detailed insights into spending across various services. The user-friendly interface makes it easy to navigate and understand complex billing data. I particularly appreciate the ability to allocate costs, which enhances accountability and helps in budget management. The real-time monitoring and alerts for unexpected spending are invaluable, allowing for proactive financial management. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

While Finout is a powerful tool, it can sometimes be overwhelming due to the sheer volume of data it presents. For new users, the learning curve can be steep, and it may take time to fully understand all the features and functionalities. Additionally, some users may find that certain advanced features require a deeper technical understanding, which could be a barrier for non-technical team members. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- The ability to collect cost related information of multiple cloud products into 1 platform

- Slice and filter the data according to various factors

- Create dashboards that showcase multiple pieces of information from various categories

- Ability to define anomalies based on filters

- Most developers in the company use it almost daily

- Eager to help and support in case of issues Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- It is purely a visibility platform. Any action or tracking needs to be done elsewhere

- I would have liked integration to additional products (Integration that's out-of-the-box)

- Cost saving recommendations are basic

- The overall product and company is very much stull in growing stages - features need to be refined and present an edge over capabilities of competitors Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

-The Virtual tagging feature that allows cost allocation on resources that are related to the same proejct over different clouds.

-Data access limitation per user that allows the admin to control which users in the org gets to see what data. Allows more flexability with giving access to different users from different teams.

-Support and success team are very responsive

- Suite for daily use for cost analysis and alerting purposes Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Optimization opportunities are mainly relevant for AWS and they way those are presented is not convinient. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Finout makes it easy to filter, group, and visualise cost data from all your cloud platforms. With virtual tagging, tag management burden becomes lighter as tags can be created from existing cost queries instead of having to meticulously add the tags to cloud resources. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There are a few features missing that I'd really want to have: More visualisation options for comparing costs of a selected time period to a previous period of the same length. This would help with quickly analysing how the cost trends have changed over time (e.g. week-to-week or month-to-month). Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We like the ease of intergration of multi-cloud cost break up feature in Finout.

Also kubernetes support is really great in FInOut.

Slicing and dicing of Finout helps us to attrbiute cost to our itnernal teams.

It helps teams to track down their cost and improve the cost optmization techniques.

The platform is quite easy to use, provides user fiendly UI.

Our frequency of use is on daily basis, to drill down into our cloud bills.

Customer support is really good via slack. We get quick response to our queries on slack channels we have. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

One of the downsides of Finout can be short credentials time. It logout very frequently.

We can provide more session duration to logged in users.

It can also proivde us cost optimization techniques, how to save costs etc. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The features, the user expirience and the service

Flexible system that allowes you to set the data the way you really need it with v.tags

Great K8s allocation feature

prommising cost allocation feature Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Relativly new product and some features are still missing. the roadmap is on the right way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

- Ability to build dashboards in any aspect

- Easy integration and implementation, including 3rd services

- User-friendly UI

- Possibility of flexible distribution of roles

- Ability to add costs for 3rd services

- The interaction with the customer support team, the quick response, and the feedback Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It’s quite difficult to say what we don’t like since we haven’t been using Finout for so long, but I can highlight what’s missing and we’re looking forward to your new releases:

- Shared cost strategies

- Forecasts on the cost Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

What is nice about Finout is the aggreagation of multiple cost centers. In our case we are using:

- AWS

- Kubernetes

- GCP

Alo being able to filter out the cost per different "group" is very helpfull via the Megabill.

Documentation is clear as well Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

At some point we struggled with user access. Even if there is RBAC with some predefined roles, these roles did not fit our need. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Vtag feuture and the accurate charfe data across all vendors Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Time wating for loading dashboards when using Vtag Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. User friendly UI - The user interface, especially the Megabill landing page, is simple, inviting and pleasant for users across our company, increasing the frequency of use.

2. Ease of use - The UI simplicity combined with easy to use features (filter + groupby), and easily understandable grouped label data (especially maintained & customized Virtual Tags) make it very easy for wider audience / casual users to easily find the specific costs they are looking for.

3. As the internal Finops administrator, good working relationship with Finout customer support team and their proactive approach helps me manage the tool better.

4. Overall, saves a lot of time and effort for "quickly look up xyz costs" type regular cost questions across our company. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

1. BUGS - I (admin) find regular bugs in Finout. I also regularly get bugs reported by the wider audience in the company. Though Finout support team are engage and work on the bugs once reported, frequent bugs damage the confidence of wider audience in the validity of costs data showing up in Finout. Overall, better data integration and thorough testing for data validity against the GCP Billing dataset by Finout product/engineering team would really help reduce the bugs showing up when we use Finout, and will really improve the experience considerable.

2. Feature requests - Over the course of using Finout for a year, our team has suggested a lot of improvements to existing features and also new feature requests. Finout has already implemented a lot of these requests (which we like), but still a lot more improvements can be made to existing features to improve user experience. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.