Cloud spend monitoring for engineering teams
Know your cloud burn every morning — before it becomes the bill.
CloudBurn watches your Google Cloud spend continuously and tells you, in plain language, what changed, why, and who should care. Spot the ember before it becomes the fire.
5-minute setup · Read-only access · No credit card
Today's burn
$4,821
+12% vs yesterday
Ember spotted
Cloud SQL · prod-api
+34% in 3 days
The problem
Cloud waste doesn't start as an explosion. It starts as an ember.
An idle instance. An oversized database. A forgotten staging environment. Nobody notices until the invoice arrives — and by then, you're arguing about a $40k surprise instead of shipping.
Most cost tools are dashboards. Dashboards need to be remembered. Engineers don't have time to remember. CloudBurn inverts this — it watches for you, and shows up in your morning routine only when something actually changed.
How it works
From zero to daily clarity in five minutes.
No agents to install. No credentials to paste. Just read-only OAuth access to your Google Cloud billing export.
- 01
Sign in with Google
One click. We use Google SSO — no service account keys to manage or rotate.
- 02
Pick your billing account
We list every billing account you have access to. Choose one or connect them all.
- 03
Enable BigQuery billing export
A guided one-time setup in the GCP console. We show you exactly what to click.
- 04
Get your morning burn report
MTD spend, projected month-end, top movers, and the embers we've spotted — all before your first coffee.
Features
Everything you'd build yourself — if you had time.
Ember detection
We surface the top cost movers in the last 7 days with plain-English explanations. "Cloud SQL in prod-api is up 34% — new instance db-large-2 created Tue."
Cost by project
See every billing account broken down by project, service, and SKU. Drill into any spike in two clicks.
Runway, not just spend
Enter your monthly budget and we show days of runway alongside MTD burn. Founders think in runway — we do too.
Morning digest
One email at 8am with exactly what changed and why. No dashboards to remember.
Read-only, always
OAuth-scoped access to your BigQuery billing export. We can never modify a single resource in your GCP account.
Zero setup complexity
No agents, no service accounts, no JSON keys. Sign in with Google, pick a billing export, done.
The metaphor
Cloud spend is burn rate. Treat it that way.
Founders track burn because it decides how long they survive. Engineering teams should treat cloud spend the same way — as a single number that changes every hour, and that someone must actually watch.
CloudBurn is that someone.
Avg. cloud waste in mid-size teams
32%
Flexera 2024 State of the Cloud
Time to detect a runaway job
4–14d
Manual dashboards
Time to detect with CloudBurn
< 24h
Daily digest + ember alerts
Setup time
~5 min
Google SSO + BQ export
Pricing
Free during beta. Flat rates when we launch.
No percent-of-savings fees, ever. Your savings should be your savings.
Solo
Free
in beta
- 1 billing account
- Daily digest
- Ember detection
- Email support
Team
Popular$99
/ month (later)
- Up to 10 billing accounts
- Slack + email digests
- Multi-user access
- Priority support
Scale
Talk to us
volume + SSO
- Unlimited billing accounts
- SAML SSO
- Custom alerts & webhooks
- Dedicated Slack channel
Get your first burn report tomorrow morning.
Sign in with Google, connect your billing export, and wake up to clarity.