Top 10 FinOps Tools In 2026

Worldwide public cloud spend was $723.4B in 2025. That’s a 21.5 percent increase from the previous year, according to Gartner. That’s a lot of wasted spend: idle instances, forgotten environments, overprovisioned resources that never get reviewed. The Flexera State of the Cloud Report found that 84% of companies identify managing cloud spend as their number one cloud challenge. The problem is that most companies are still reacting to spend instead of preventing it.

FinOps exists to fix this problem. The idea is to make the monthly bill as predictable as possible, rather than a nasty surprise. The following are the best ten FinOps tools to use in 2026.

1. CloudCheckr (now Flexera One)

Flexera’s unified Technology Intelligence Platform, or Flexera One, is the company’s platform for IT spend management. As of May 2025, the company’s Flexera One Cloud Cost Optimization offering now supports Cloud Commitment Management powered by Spot Eco, as well as Kubernetes cost visibility and rightsizing through Spot Ocean. The company also announced the addition of a GreenOps partnership, which will enable the inclusion of cloud carbon emissions information, as well as cost information, through the company’s partnership with Greenpixie.

The product offering can best be described as enterprise IT spend management, which supports cloud, SaaS, and on-prem spend. The product offering can be considered somewhat broader than FinOps, but it’s the breadth of the product offering that makes it most appealing to large enterprises with increasingly complex IT environments.

Best for: Large enterprises and MSPs looking for cost optimization as part of a larger platform for governance, compliance, and IT asset management.

Price: Available upon request through Flexera. The product offering is subscription-based and priced according to the enterprise’s requirements.

Customer review :

“The ability to consume multiple cloud environments and display usage in a single location is critical. Automated and actionable policies were the biggest factors in selecting Flexera.”

2. Control Plane

Control Plane is not so much a cost monitoring tool, but rather a structural solution to cloud waste. It is a fault-resistant, multi-cloud-native platform. This allows teams to run workloads on any mix of AWS, Azure, and GCP, with millicore-based billing. The Capacity AI engine can scale workloads to zero during idle periods, while a single API with MCP support can move workloads between clouds and on-prem environments, thereby providing pricing leverage over CSPs.

Customers have seen an AWS spend reduction of 58-75%. As it integrates with existing developer tool sets, cost optimization is done at the infrastructure level, not by adding another FinOps process on top.

Best for: Cloud-native organizations that are cost-conscious, wanting cost control at an infrastructure level, not just analytical visibility on top of their existing spend.

Price : Pay-as-you-go model on CPU, RAM, and egress. No minimums or lock-in. Offers a free trial.

Customer review :

“We’ve reduced our AWS spend by 75% using Control Plane. We spend less on computing because we can scale to zero with Capacity AI, but the big savings is that with Control Plane, many of the extras we had to pay for in AWS are built in for free.“

3. Vantage

Vantage is designed for teams that need fast time-to-value. Accounts are connected within minutes, and cost data visible immediately for AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, and 15 SaaS integrations, including Snowflake, Datadog, and Databricks. Virtual tagging with Segments provides attribution for untaggable resources, while Autopilot allows users to buy AWS Savings Plans effortlessly. Vantage is currently the only FinOps platform with native Terraform Provider, making it an ideal choice for engineering-led teams. It’s best suited for startups and mid-market teams.

Best for: Developer-centric teams at startups and growing organizations who need fast onboarding, cost visibility, and engineering-native workflows.

Price: Free up to $2,500 tracked spend per month. $7,500/month for Pro tier. Enterprise pricing on request. Autopilot pricing: 5% of verified savings.

Customer review :

“Vantage makes cloud costs finally feel understandable and actionable. The clarity of the dashboards, smart breakdowns, virtual tagging, and real-time insights turn what used to be guesswork into confident decision-making.”

4. CloudZero

CloudZero ties cloud spend to business context, cost per customer, cost per feature, cost per deployment, etc., rather than just showing spend at an account level. CloudZero ingests data from AWS, Azure, GCP, Snowflake, Datadog, Databricks, etc., using telemetry-based allocation to assign costs to resources that cannot be tagged natively, which is particularly useful for microservices-based architectures.

Anomaly detection and near-real-time dashboards make it good for proactive cost governance. One area where they fall short: Customizing dashboard views requires working with their customer success team, rather than self-service.

Best for: Cloud-native companies that need to tie their spend to their product and business metrics, particularly with complex microservices-based architectures.

Price: Available upon request, with some free tools.

Customer review:

“The search engine is very powerful; you can understand exactly where you spend your money on AWS. Creating your dashboard is impossible; you have to work with the customer success team.”

5. Harness CCM

Harness Cloud Cost Management is part of the Harness Software Delivery Platform, providing direct access to the CI/CD pipelines where cloud resources are launched. AI-powered FinOps Assistant responds to cost-related questions in natural language. Commitment Orchestrator manages Reserved Instances and Savings Plans, and Cloud AutoStopping stops idle resources in AWS, Azure, GCP, and Kubernetes without scripting.

FOCUS – FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification – is supported by Harness CCM.

This product is most compelling to users already invested in the Harness platform, although the overall platform investment required for users not already invested in Harness is an important consideration.

Best for: Organizations already invested in the Harness platform, or organizations seeking cost management as part of their software delivery pipeline.

Price: Harness CCM is free for organizations with less than $250K annual cloud spend, with premium plans starting at 2.25% annual cloud spend.

Customer review:

“During the first 30 days with Harness CCM, we saw a noticeable change in our cloud spend, with six-figure annualized savings.”

6. IBM Cloudability (formerly Apptio Cloudability)

Part of IBM’s FinOps suite with Turbonomic and Kubecost, Cloudability is designed to focus on enterprise-level cost allocation, chargeback/showback reporting, and budgeting.

The API layer pushes cloud billing into external ERP systems and FP&A systems of record. This is important to financial teams that need cloud spend to be integrated into their systems of record.

It does well with standard reporting requirements. However, users note that flexibility in custom reporting is limited, with professional services engagement required to configure.

Best for: Large enterprise-level FinOps teams, particularly with existing relationships with IBM that need to integrate cloud spend into their broader IT financial management.

Price: Available upon request. Offers a free trial.

Customer review:

“Provides good insights into cloud costs, but it is difficult to customize the views to what I want to see.”

7. Kubex Densify

Kubex Densify is a solution that targets a specific problem: eliminating overprovisioning through continuous rightsizing. The platform analyzes consumption patterns and automatically generates or applies rightsizing recommendations for EC2 instance types, Kubernetes container requests and limits, node configurations, and auto-scaling groups.

Kubex Densify is not exactly a FinOps tool. The platform does not have cost allocation and reporting as a strength. It’s best used as a targeted tool for optimization and a broader dashboard for visibility.

Best for: Cloud engineering teams in large enterprises with large compute environments and a desire for automated rightsizing instead of financial reporting.

Price: Available upon request. Offers a free trial.

Customer review:

“There a lot of good features. One would be the automatic rebalancing of the environment. That was one feature which helped. With that, we could improve our efficiency of our VMware infrastructure.”

8. AWS Cost Explorer

AWS Cost Explorer is the starting point for AWS cost management. For AWS-only organizations, it may be enough. It includes historical cost and usage visualization, trend-based forecasting, and recommendations for Reserved Instances and Savings Plans, all for free.

Limitations: Its ceiling is low, with only 24-hour refreshes, no support for multi-cloud, and no optimization of the recommendations it does provide. For organizations that have outgrown it, its data exports to S3 can be used with downstream tools.

Best for: Organizations running exclusively on AWS, especially in the early stages of developing FinOps capabilities.

Price: Free.

Customer review:

“The implementation and data integration with AWS takes time to get all the information set up in the tool. It can take up to two weeks. We had three people deploy and maintain the solution.”

9. Microsoft Azure Cost Management

Microsoft’s native cost management tool offers features such as cost analysis, budget alerts, and anomaly detection. It also has access to all of Azure’s discounting mechanisms: Savings Plans, Reservations, and Azure Hybrid Benefit for enterprises with existing on-prem licenses. The integration with Microsoft Fabric offers sophisticated analysis for teams that are already within the Microsoft data ecosystem.

The tool is feature-rich but has a steep learning curve. The sheer scale of Azure means that there are numerous routes through the UI, and any serious optimization requires effort to set up. Like AWS Cost Explorer, it only tracks costs within its own cloud.

Best for: Enterprises that predominantly use Azure and Microsoft Cloud services.

Price: Free with Azure services.

Customer review:

“If you are new to cloud computing, you will be overwhelmed with this solution. Just navigating the platform, you will find different services and options that will necessarily require training and specific documentation.”

10. VMware Aria Cost powered by CloudHealth (Broadcom)

CloudHealth is still a mature product with all the features of a good FinOps platform. These include cost visibility, budgeting and forecasting, cost allocation, commitment discounts, and migration planning. It is a good option for organizations that are already inside the VMware/Broadcom ecosystem.

Important note for 2026: After Broadcom acquired VMware, CloudHealth is only available as part of a bundled VMware Cloud Foundation subscription and not on its own. There have been reports of large price increases under this new licensing model. New customers should contact Broadcom for pricing and ensure that the bundling works for their needs.

Best for: Organizations that are already invested in the VMware/Broadcom ecosystem and need a mature multi-cloud FinOps platform.

Price: Contact Broadcom for pricing on request.

Customer review:

“This tool worked well in analyzing and providing opportunities to improve cloud infrastructure costs by providing insights into management decisions. The only drawback is generating custom reporting is hard, and licensing could have been better in terms of costs.”

Comparison Table

Tool | Primary Focus | Best For | Actionability
Flexera One | Enterprise Governance | Large Hybrid IT / MSPs | Medium (Governance & GreenOps)
Control Plane | Architectural Prevention | Cloud-native / Multi-cloud | Autonomous (Prevents waste at the infra layer)
Vantage | Engineering Visibility | Startups & Mid-market | High (Auto-buy Savings Plans)
CloudZero | Unit Economics | Microservices / SaaS | Medium (Telemetry-based allocation)
Harness CCM | Pipeline Integration | Teams already on Harness | High (Auto-stopping idle resources)
IBM Cloudability | Financial Reporting | Fortune 500 Finance Depts | Low (Heavy on reporting/ chargeback)
Kubex Densify | Compute Optimization | Heavy EC2/K8s Fleets | High (ML-driven rightsizing)
AWS Cost Explorer | Basic AWS Visibility | Single-cloud / AWS-only | Low (Read-only visibility)
Azure Cost Mgmt | Basic Azure Visibility | Single-cloud / Azure-only | Low (Read-only visibility)
Aria (CloudHealth) | Legacy Multi-cloud | Broadcom/VMware Shops | Medium (Policy-driven governance)

Stop managing cloud waste. Start preventing it.

Most FinOps tools help you understand the extent of the damage. Control Plane’s architecture means the damage doesn’t happen in the first place. Your workloads scale to zero, and you’re billed in millicores. You’ve got one API, and work can be moved between AWS, Azure, GCP, and on-prem. That means you’re never locked into a vendor’s pricing and never pay for unused compute. Customers see savings of up to 75%, and faster time-to-market on new features. That’s not optimization. That’s a different model.