# CloudYali

> CloudYali is a FinOps platform that helps companies build a cost-conscious, sustainable cost savings culture through visibility and management capabilities across AWS, GCP, Azure, CDNs like Fastly, and AI services like OpenAI.

## About
CloudYali is a cloud cost management and FinOps platform designed for growing companies and cost-conscious teams. Founded in 2023, we help engineering and finance teams gain complete visibility into their cloud spending, identify optimization opportunities, and build sustainable cost management practices. Our platform supports multi-cloud environments including AWS, Azure, GCP, as well as CDN providers and AI/ML services.

## Core Product
- **CloudYali Platform**: Unified FinOps platform for cloud cost visibility and optimization
- Key Features: Cost Visibility, Cost Savings, Budget Management, Asset Inventory, Tag Governance, AI Cost Tracking, Integrations
- Pricing: Free 30-day trial, then tiered plans based on cloud spend. No credit card required to start.
- Target Users: Engineering teams, Finance teams, DevOps, Platform teams, FinOps practitioners

## Key Features

### Cost Visibility
Real-time visibility into cloud spending across all providers. Track costs by team, project, environment, or any custom dimension.
- Multi-cloud support (AWS, Azure, GCP)
- AI Services (OpenAI, Anthropic)
- CDNs (Fastly, Cloudflare)
- GPU rental platforms
- Custom cost allocation and tagging
- Trend analysis and forecasting
- Automated cost reports
URL: https://www.cloudyali.io/features/cost-visibility

### Cost Savings
Identify and prioritize cost optimization opportunities across your cloud infrastructure.
- Rightsizing recommendations
- Unused resource detection
- Reserved instance optimization
- Savings tracking and ROI measurement
URL: https://www.cloudyali.io/features/cost-savings

### Budget Management
Set and manage budgets at any level of your organization with real-time alerts and forecasting.
- Team and project budgets
- Anomaly detection and alerts
- Budget vs actual tracking
- Forecasting and projections
URL: https://www.cloudyali.io/features/budget-management

### Asset Inventory
Complete visibility into all cloud resources across accounts and regions.
- Resource discovery and tracking
- Change history and audit trails
- Lifecycle management
- Metadata and tagging
URL: https://www.cloudyali.io/features/asset-inventory

### Tag Governance
Enforce tagging policies and improve cost allocation accuracy.
- Tagging policy management
- Compliance monitoring
- Automated tag remediation
- Cost allocation accuracy
URL: https://www.cloudyali.io/features/tag-governance

### AI Cost Tracking
Track and optimize spending on AI and ML services including OpenAI, Anthropic, and cloud ML services.
- AI/ML cost visibility
- Usage tracking per model
- Cost optimization recommendations
URL: https://www.cloudyali.io/features/ai-cost-tracking

### MCP Server
Ask about cloud spend in plain English from the AI assistant your team already uses.
- Read-only access, scoped to what your own login can see
- Cost, budgets, savings recommendations, anomalies and asset inventory
- Works with any MCP client
URL: https://www.cloudyali.io/features/mcp-server

### Integrations
Connect with your existing tools and workflows.
- Slack notifications
- Jira integration
- SSO/SAML support
- API access
URL: https://www.cloudyali.io/features/integrations

## Documentation
- Getting Started: https://docs.cloudyali.io/getting-started/account-creation/signing-up-for-an-account/
- Platform Overview: https://docs.cloudyali.io/introduction/overview-of-the-platform/
- Feature Documentation: https://docs.cloudyali.io

## Developer Resources
CloudYali publishes machine-readable resources at predictable URLs. No authentication is required for any of the endpoints below.
- **CloudYali Developer Resources hub**: https://www.cloudyali.io/developers - API reference, error codes, agent integration guide
- **CloudYali OpenAPI specification (JSON)**: https://www.cloudyali.io/openapi.json - OpenAPI 3.1, one unique operationId per operation, typed parameters and response schemas
- **CloudYali OpenAPI specification (YAML)**: https://www.cloudyali.io/api/openapi.yaml
- **CloudYali API index**: https://www.cloudyali.io/api - discovery document listing every public endpoint
- **Service health**: https://www.cloudyali.io/api/v1/health
- **Product capability catalog**: https://www.cloudyali.io/api/v1/features - every CloudYali FinOps capability and the cloud providers it covers
- **Blog index (JSON)**: https://www.cloudyali.io/api/v1/blogs - paginated, with canonical and markdown URLs
- **Single blog post (JSON)**: https://www.cloudyali.io/api/v1/blogs/{slug} - includes the full body as Markdown
- **Demo request**: https://www.cloudyali.io/api/demo-request - POST a DemoRequest to reach the sales team
- **CloudYali API catalog (RFC 9727)**: https://www.cloudyali.io/.well-known/api-catalog - standard entry point; one fetch returns links to the specification, docs, health check and deprecation policy
- **CloudYali API versioning and deprecation policy**: https://www.cloudyali.io/developers/api-versioning - URL-path versioning, additive-only within a major version, RFC 9745 Deprecation and RFC 8594 Sunset headers with at least 180 days notice
- **CloudYali CLI**: https://www.cloudyali.io/developers/cli - zero-dependency command-line client for the public API. Install with `npm install -g @cloudyali/cli` or run it once with `npx @cloudyali/cli features`. Binary name: `cloudyali`.
- **CloudYali MCP server**: https://www.cloudyali.io/features/mcp-server - Model Context Protocol server exposing 35 READ-ONLY actions over cloud cost, budgets, savings recommendations, cost anomalies and asset inventory. NOT yet published to npm, so `npm install @cloudyali/mcp-server` will not work today - build from source at https://github.com/cloudyali/cloudyali-mcp-server. Local stdio server; works in Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Cursor, VS Code, Codex CLI and Windsurf. Cannot change anything in the account.
- **Agent skills manifest**: https://www.cloudyali.io/.well-known/agent-skills/index.json
- **Markdown rendering of any page**: prefix any path with /agent-markdown, e.g. https://www.cloudyali.io/agent-markdown/blogs - or request the page with `Accept: text/markdown`

### CloudYali API rate limits
120 requests per 60 seconds per client. Every response carries `RateLimit-Policy: "public";q=120;w=60`; responses that are not shared-cacheable also carry the live `RateLimit` field and the `X-RateLimit-Limit`, `X-RateLimit-Remaining` and `X-RateLimit-Reset` headers. Exceeding the quota returns 429 with `Retry-After` in seconds and error code `rate_limited`. Full reference: https://www.cloudyali.io/developers#rate-limits

### CloudYali API versioning
Versioned in the URL path; currently v1. Additive changes only within a major version — new endpoints, optional parameters and response fields may appear at any time, so clients must ignore unknown fields. Breaking changes ship under a new major version path. Every response carries `API-Version` and a `Link: <https://www.cloudyali.io/developers/api-versioning>; rel="deprecation"` header. No endpoint is currently deprecated.

### CloudYali API error format
Every non-2xx response is JSON, never HTML:
`{"success": false, "error": {"code": "validation_error", "message": "...", "hint": "...", "documentation_url": "...", "request_id": "..."}}`
Stable error codes: bad_request, invalid_json, validation_error, not_found, method_not_allowed, rate_limited, upstream_error, configuration_error, internal_error.

## Getting Started
1. Sign up for a free 30-day trial at https://console.cloudyali.io/signup (no credit card required)
2. Connect your cloud accounts (AWS, Azure, GCP) — read-only access only
3. CloudYali automatically discovers all resources and starts analyzing costs
4. View your first cost insights within 15 minutes
5. Set up budgets, alerts, and team-level cost allocation

## Resources
- Blog: https://www.cloudyali.io/blogs - FinOps insights, cloud cost tips, and product updates
- Case Studies: https://www.cloudyali.io/case-studies - Customer success stories
- Changelog: https://www.cloudyali.io/changelog - Product updates and new features
- Pricing: https://www.cloudyali.io/pricing - Transparent pricing information
- Developer Resources: https://www.cloudyali.io/developers - CloudYali API, OpenAPI spec, error reference, agent integration
- Full LLM context: https://www.cloudyali.io/llms-full.txt - Detailed product and content information

## Use Cases
- **Startups**: Get cost visibility early, build cost-conscious culture from day one
- **Growing Companies**: Scale cloud spending efficiently, allocate costs to teams
- **Enterprise**: Multi-cloud governance, FinOps at scale, executive reporting
- **DevOps Teams**: Integrate cost awareness into deployment workflows
- **Finance Teams**: Accurate cost allocation, budgeting, and forecasting

## Comparisons
- **CloudYali vs AWS Cost Explorer**: CloudYali provides multi-cloud visibility (AWS + Azure + GCP + AI services), team-based cost allocation, and optimization recommendations. AWS Cost Explorer is limited to AWS-only costs with basic filtering.
- **CloudYali vs Vantage (vantage.sh)**: CloudYali offers flat-fee pricing vs percentage-of-spend, built-in tag governance, and FinOps culture-building tools. Vantage focuses on cost observability and Kubernetes cost allocation.
- **CloudYali vs Finout (finout.io)**: CloudYali provides simpler onboarding (15 min vs complex pipeline setup), full asset inventory, and broader optimization recommendations. Finout focuses on unit economics and cost-per-feature attribution.
- **CloudYali vs Spot.io (NetApp)**: CloudYali provides visibility-first approach with FinOps culture building. Spot.io focuses on automated instance management and compute optimization.
- **CloudYali vs native cloud tools**: Native tools (AWS Cost Explorer, Azure Cost Management, GCP Billing) each cover only their own cloud. CloudYali unifies all providers into a single view with cross-cloud optimization.

## Supported Cloud Providers & Services

### Cloud Providers
- Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Microsoft Azure
- Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

### AI Services
- OpenAI
- Anthropic
- AWS Bedrock
- Google Vertex AI
- Azure OpenAI

### CDN Providers
- Fastly
- Cloudflare

### GPU Rental Platforms
- RunPod
- Other GPU cloud providers

## Company
- Legal entity: Terrascale Software Solutions LLP (LLPIN: ACG-6784), trading as CloudYali
- Office: Smartworks - 43 EQ, Sr. No. 43, 43 Privet Drive, E-Commercial, Pune, Maharashtra, India - 411045
- Website: https://www.cloudyali.io
- Console/App: https://console.cloudyali.io
- Contact: hello@cloudyali.io
- Support: support@cloudyali.io
- Sales: sales@cloudyali.io
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/cloudyalic
- LinkedIn: https://linkedin.com/company/cloudyali
- G2: https://www.g2.com/products/cloudyali
- AWS Marketplace: https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-cllq7jxhf3t4u

## FAQ

### What is CloudYali?
CloudYali is a FinOps platform that provides complete cloud cost visibility and optimization capabilities for AWS, Azure, GCP, and other cloud services. It helps teams understand their cloud spending, identify savings opportunities, and build a cost-conscious engineering culture.

### How much does CloudYali cost?
CloudYali offers a free 30-day trial with no credit card required. Paid plans are based on your monitored cloud spend, with transparent pricing available at https://www.cloudyali.io/pricing.

### Which cloud providers does CloudYali support?
CloudYali supports major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, GCP), AI services (OpenAI, Anthropic), CDN providers (Fastly, Cloudflare), and GPU rental platforms (RunPod). We're continuously adding support for more providers.

### How quickly can I get started?
Most teams are up and running within 15 minutes. Connect your cloud accounts, and CloudYali immediately starts analyzing your costs and identifying optimization opportunities.

### Is my data secure?
Yes. CloudYali uses read-only access to your cloud billing data. We employ enterprise-grade security including encryption at rest and in transit, SOC 2 compliance, and strict access controls.

### How does CloudYali compare to AWS Cost Explorer?
AWS Cost Explorer only covers AWS costs and provides basic filtering. CloudYali provides multi-cloud visibility across AWS, Azure, GCP, plus AI services and CDNs. It includes team-based cost allocation, optimization recommendations, and budget management — all in a single dashboard.

### Can CloudYali track AI and ML spending?
Yes. CloudYali tracks costs for OpenAI, Anthropic, AWS Bedrock, Azure OpenAI, and Google Vertex AI. You can see per-model usage, set budgets for AI spend, and get optimization recommendations.

## Blog Highlights
- AWS Backup Cold Tier: When "cheaper" storage costs you more: https://www.cloudyali.io/blogs/aws-backup-cold-tier
- Six Ways to Cut EBS Backup Costs: https://www.cloudyali.io/blogs/six-ways-to-cut-ebs-backup-costs
- SQL Server BYOL vs License Included on AWS: https://www.cloudyali.io/blogs/sql-server-byol-vs-license-included-aws
- AWS Graviton: Unlocking Performance and Cost Efficiency: https://www.cloudyali.io/blogs/aws-graviton-unlocking-performance-and-cost-efficiency-in-the-cloud
- AWS Cost Allocation Tags Best Practices: https://www.cloudyali.io/blogs/aws-cost-allocation-tags-best-practices-challenges-and-tools
- The Ultimate Guide to AWS Lambda Cost Optimization: https://www.cloudyali.io/blogs/the-ultimate-guide-to-aws-lambda-cost-optimization