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The video above shows AWS profiles, SSO and the AI assistant. Here, on sample data, try the Billing and Savings views yourself. Pick a profile, open a service for its cost details, run a Savings Scan, click through the savings flow and open the findings. It runs in your browser and sends nothing anywhere.
CloudPouch delivers actionable AWS savings recommendations locally, with fixed per-license/user pricing and unlimited AWS accounts.
| What changes | Traditional FinOps SaaSHosted platform · variable pricing · vendor-managed data | CloudPouchDesktop AWS FinOps · fixed price · unlimited AWS accounts |
|---|---|---|
| Built for | Traditional FinOps SaaSCentral FinOps programs, procurement and management reporting | CloudPouchAWS engineers, architects, DevOps, FinOps practitioners and consultants |
| Pricing | Traditional FinOps SaaSOften a percentage of cloud spend, usage-based tiers, or annual and multi-year contracts | CloudPouchFixed price per license: $39/month or $399/year, and Team from $87/month for 3 users |
| Accounts & spend | Traditional FinOps SaaSPrice may increase with cloud spend, connected accounts or platform usage | CloudPouchUnlimited AWS accounts per license, regardless of your AWS bill size |
| Vendor lock-in | Traditional FinOps SaaSMulti-year contracts, persistent integrations, vendor-stored data and embedded reporting workflows can make switching difficult and expensive | CloudPouchNo vendor lock-in. Cancel your subscription and stop using the app. There is no vendor infrastructure, persistent AWS integration or hosted dataset to unwind |
| Vendor visibility | Traditional FinOps SaaSThe vendor typically sees how much your company spends, which services generate the bill and how that spending changes over time | CloudPouchCloudPouch has no direct access to your AWS billing posture or resources. All AWS-related requests run directly between your computer and AWS. CloudPouch servers do not take part |
| Data after leaving | Traditional FinOps SaaSData export, retention policies and deletion timelines depend on the vendor and contract | CloudPouchNo identifiable AWS billing or resource data remains on CloudPouch servers. Your local data stays under your control on your computer |
| Try before buying | Traditional FinOps SaaSA demo, sales process or commercial agreement may be required | CloudPouchFree, our basic plan, free forever Pro trial: 7 days of Pro, no credit card required |
| Onboarding | Traditional FinOps SaaSConfigure a hosted account, cloud connectors and cross-account access | CloudPouchInstall CloudPouch and select an existing AWS profile or SSO session |
| AWS access | Traditional FinOps SaaSA vendor integration or cross-account role is commonly required | CloudPouchRead-only access through the AWS profiles you already control |
| AWS footprint | Traditional FinOps SaaSPersistent cross-account roles, connectors, agents or data pipelines may be required | CloudPouchNothing to deploy in AWS. CloudPouch uses read-only access from your desktop |
| From cost to action | Traditional FinOps SaaSDashboards and reports; optimization depth may depend on purchased modules | CloudPouchBuilt-in Cost Insights identify concrete resources, recommended actions and estimated savings |
| Multi-account work | Traditional FinOps SaaSAccounts and organizations must be connected to the hosted platform | CloudPouchSwitch between unlimited AWS profiles, even across organizations, in seconds, and run a Savings Scan on the account behind each one |
| Time to first value | Traditional FinOps SaaSDepends on procurement, connector setup and initial data ingestion | CloudPouchA Savings Scan runs all analyses in one pass, straight from your existing AWS profile |
SaaS products and contracts vary. This comparison describes common enterprise FinOps deployments; CloudPouch details reflect the plans and product available today.
Analyze your AWS costs locally
A Savings Scan analyzes the AWS services CloudPouch supports that have costs in one profile and one month, in a single pass. The results land in the Savings Workspace, a view of its own next to Billing.
What the scan is worth, at a glance: monthly cost with the potential savings percentage in green, the top finding, and a savings flow diagram that follows the money from Service to Finding to Solution. A short summary of what was analyzed comes with it, including anything CloudPouch could not check.
Every individual finding in one table you can search, filter and sort: the service, the resource, the recommended solution and the estimated monthly saving. Open a finding to see why CloudPouch flagged it, with the metrics, configuration or reference data behind it and the recommended action. Pro.
CloudPouch saves scan runs locally, per profile. Closing the app immediately after a scan finishes can leave that run unsaved. Reopen a saved run, delete it, or export it on Pro. When a newer run exists for the same profile, a banner offers to jump straight to it.
A missing permission is never reported as "nothing to optimize". The Coverage and Permission issues panels name the service, the region, the API operation and the AWS error code involved.
Savings analysis covers the current month and the previous month. Figures are estimates, not guarantees. Press ⌘S to open the workspace, or Ctrl+S on Windows and Linux.
The free plan is our basic plan and includes the full scan, the Overview and the savings flow. Pro, which is every paid plan, adds the Opportunities list with evidence, full history and export.
See Free vs Pro
The Billing view groups your AWS spend by service. Open a service to see what its cost is made of, down to the usage type, and “EC2 - Other” stops being a mystery.
Filter the table by Region, and pick a period on the chart to see how each service changed against the previous one.
Cost Insights scan the resources in your AWS accounts and tell you what to fix, why it costs money, and how much you will save. Read-only, running on your computer.
Finds unattached volumes, volumes still paid for on stopped instances, and snapshot cleanup opportunities — a classic source of silent AWS waste.
Recommends the cheapest EBS volume type that still meets your workload needs, based on 14 days of CloudWatch metrics.
Spots EKS clusters and RDS databases quietly adding hundreds of dollars a month in Extended Support charges — including the total paid so far.
Detects idle RDS databases and underutilized EC2 instances, with rightsizing recommendations up to Auto Scaling Group level.
Breaks down Claude spend on Amazon Bedrock by team using IAM principal tags, so you know who is generating the GenAI bill. Shown in its own Costs by IAM tag tab, outside the Savings Scan.
A Savings Scan analyzes the supported services that have costs in the selected month, in one pass. If a permission is missing, CloudPouch tells you exactly which API call failed, and never confuses "couldn't check" with "nothing to save". Individual Cost Insights stay available for a closer look at one service.
WHAT CLOUDPOUCH CHECKS, AND COUNTING
CloudPouch can share its cost and savings data with your AI assistant over MCP, straight from the running app. Ask in plain language how your costs changed since last month or what the last Savings Scan found, and the answer comes from your data instead of a model's guess.
Free includes the built-in MCP server for your AI Agents. Pro adds saved run history and per-opportunity detail with evidence. Your assistant decides where the answers it reads go next, because that part sits outside CloudPouch. Claude Desktop setup needs Node 18 or newer.
Connect your assistant
Don't waste time on logging in, clicking around and switching between AWS accounts. See what's important within seconds.
Built for consultants and multi-account teams. Switch between AWS accounts and organizations in seconds — not the minutes it takes in Cost Explorer. AWS SSO supported.
Nothing to deploy in your AWS account and nothing to configure. CloudPouch uses the AWS profiles file that is already on your computer.
Your billing data belongs to you. It is downloaded directly from AWS to your computer and kept there. AWS cost data, resource metadata and credentials are not sent to CloudPouch servers during normal use. CloudPouch 2.0.0 sends no telemetry and no product analytics.
Easy for your security team to review: nothing is installed in your AWS account, and the desktop app fetches cost data via the AWS SDK using read-only permissions. The documentation lists every IAM action it needs.
Concrete savings recommendations with estimated amounts — not just charts. CloudPouch analyzes EC2, EBS, RDS, S3, EKS, Lambda, DynamoDB and more.
CloudPouch runs on your computer and talks to AWS directly. Good to know:
A 2023 engagement uncovered 19,136 EBS volumes (1.29 PB) still attached to long-stopped EC2 instances. Snapshotting and removing them cut storage costs by about $110,000 every month — the same orphaned-volume waste CloudPouch detects automatically.
At the end of 2021, an account with roughly 17,000 EBS volumes was spending about $100,000 per month on GP2 storage. Migrating to GP3 — an opportunity CloudPouch flags out of the box — reduced that bill by about 20%.
Figures come from real engagements by CloudPouch's founder and are anchored to their dates. Your savings depend on your usage and current AWS pricing.
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CloudPouch just reads your local AWS profiles, pulls costs straight to your machine, and shows you where the money goes. I spotted AWS Config rules that had quietly started costing way more than usual… Nobody opens Cost Explorer until the bill already hurts. CloudPouch makes it the kind of thing you actually check on a Tuesday morning with your coffee, not something you panic about at the end of the month.
Thanks to the CloudPouch application, monitoring AWS cloud costs has become part of my daily to-do list. Regular usage has allowed me to notice recurring patterns in generated costs and pinpoint problematic configurations. Ultimately, this has resulted in a reduction of AWS costs in the project by more than 50% on a monthly scale, and there are still visible anomalies, the removal of which will save even more.
Setup was quick, it reads your existing AWS CLI profiles and SSO config so there is nothing to configure. No agents in your account, no billing data leaving your machine. I work with client accounts and I cannot just plug random SaaS tools into their infrastructure… You can tell it was built by someone who actually does this work every day, and that makes all the difference.
If you're working with AWS and want actual visibility into where your cloud budget is going, you need to check out CloudPouch. I've been following it for a while and absolutely love the privacy-first approach: no SaaS, no data leaves your machine, just your AWS profiles, analyzed locally. Perfect for devs, architects, and SREs who are tired of guessing what's driving the bill.
I like it! I think there are often some straightforward configuration wins for DDB tables that can save money without making code changes. Nice work and nice video!
People don't realize how useful this tool is until they try to figure out pricing on AWS the first time. Nice work!
Most AWS cost tools either overwhelm you with dashboards or don't go deep enough. CloudPouch hits the right balance… There's no filler — every feature exists because a real client had a real problem. I spotted cost patterns I'd been missing for months within the first week of use.
CloudPouch hands down is the best way for me to navigate my AWS costs across multiple accounts in an intuitive way. There's many solutions out there including things provided by AWS, but this was the first one I used that was straightforward from the start.
Very useful view of cost across multiple AWS accounts. Easy to navigate, zoom in and out, as well get priority view on cloud spending. It saved me hundreds of dollars and probably more thanks to early detection of leaks.
Great app — helps me to manage my personal projects on AWS. I like simple and clear UI, ability to view multiple AWS accounts and caching of cost explorer data. That makes it easy to quickly understand what's happening.
CloudPouch is a nice application for getting an high level overview of your AWS expenses as well as diving deep into individual usage types. It integrates well into AWS SSO, so you don't have to create yet another IAM access key. The app has charts for showing you cost over time, so you can pinpoint on when a specific spike happened, or if it's been an ongoing trend.
I've had a positive experience with Cloudpouch. The platform feels clean and easy to navigate, making cloud data management faster and more efficient. The user interface is intuitive, helping reduce the learning curve when handling complex tasks… I would recommend Cloudpouch to other professionals.
Cloud-pouch is best cost optimiser tools ever seen, lots of features was there since beginning which now introduce by few cloud provider. Kudos to cloud pouch developer.
Clear overview of AWS costs. But the real gem are Cost Insights 💎 Here it recommends changing Provisioned Capacity to On-Demand for unused tables in the development environment 🎯
Super cool idea of Paweł! For sure worth to try it and it's for sure better than AWS Budget calculator!
Free shows how much you could save. Pro shows exactly where: the resource behind every finding, why it costs money, and what to do about it. Free is our basic plan, not a trial, and it stays free forever. Every paid plan is Pro. One Pro license covers unlimited AWS accounts, however large your bill.
Our basic plan
Pay month by month
Best price for one person
Starts from 3 users
The price per user goes down as your team grows.
Pro Monthly and Pro Yearly are paid by credit card or PayPal. Payments are processed and invoiced by a Paddle.com company, and depending on your country's laws tax may be added to your purchase. Refunds follow the Paddle Refund Policy. Your Pro license key arrives by e-mail: paste it into CloudPouch under Settings and choose Save & validate. Each license, including each Team seat, is for one person on up to three computers.
| What you get | Free (basic plan) | Pro (every paid plan, and the Pro trial) |
|---|---|---|
| Savings Scan across all supported services | Yes | Yes |
| Overview and savings flow diagram | Yes | Yes |
| Per-service savings totals | Yes | Yes |
| Click-to-pin drill-down on the diagram | Aggregate figures only | Names the affected resources |
| Opportunities list, searchable and sortable | Not included | Included |
| Evidence and recommended action per finding | Not included | Included |
| History of saved runs | Summary records | Full history |
| Export of runs | Not included | Included |
| Agentic FinOps | Built-in MCP server for your AI Agents | Adds run history and per-opportunity detail |
Free, the basic plan, never expires, and registering takes an e-mail address.
The Pro trial gives you Pro for 7 days, counted from registration, and needs no credit card.
When a Pro trial ends, CloudPouch moves to Free automatically, the next time you start the app. A notice titled "Your Pro trial has ended" offers Continue on Free or Upgrade to Pro. Savings Scans and the built-in MCP server keep working with summary savings, and per-resource detail stays locked until you upgrade.
CloudPouch is described in Efficient Cloud FinOps (Packt Publishing) by Alfonso San Miguel Sánchez and Danny Obando García. The authors present it as one of the interesting FinOps tools — covering its cost breakdown, Cost Insights, and the local, desktop-first model that works with your AWS CLI and SSO profiles.
Independent authors writing about FinOps chose CloudPouch as a tool worth knowing. We think that says more than any ad could.
Building CloudPouch since 2021
AWS Hero, architect & developer. Founder of the CloudPouch application.
CloudPouch started as the tool I needed for my own consulting work: one place to understand costs across the many AWS accounts I manage. It runs locally, so I can use it with client accounts without special permissions or juggling browser windows.
Every day it shows me current usage, waste and misconfigured resources, so I can optimize costs for my clients.
Founder.
Free is our basic plan. It runs the full Savings Scan and shows the Overview, the savings flow diagram and per-service savings totals, and it never expires, but it does not include every feature. Every paid plan is Pro and has the full feature set: the Opportunities list, evidence for each finding, full run history and export. See the Plans section for the side-by-side table.
The Pro trial lasts 7 days and counts from registration. It needs no credit card. To register, you enter your e-mail address, accept the EULA and confirm with the 6-digit code we e-mail you. During the trial you have everything Pro includes. A chip in the header shows the days left, and when the 7 days end, CloudPouch switches to Free automatically the next time you start the app.
CloudPouch moves to the Free plan automatically the next time you start it, and shows a one-time notice. Savings Scans keep working with summary savings, and per-resource detail stays locked until you upgrade. Free, our basic plan, has no expiry.
CloudPouch has been built and developed since 2021. The first public release came out in November 2021, and more than 80 public releases have followed. CloudPouch 2.0 is the next stage of that continuous development.
Your IAM user or role must be allowed to call ce:GetCostAndUsage. Cost Insights also need read-only Describe, List and Get actions. The complete policy, ready to copy, is at docs.cloudpouch.dev/reference/aws-permissions/, and every action in it is read-only.
Yes. CloudPouch uses the AWS Cost Explorer API to load or refresh charts and tables, and AWS charges $0.01 per request. One account and time period needs at least 2 requests, and more when the account has Claude spend on Amazon Bedrock broken down by tags. CloudPouch caches fetched data on your computer to avoid repeated requests.
CloudPouch uses the AWS SDK to connect to your AWS account(s) and fetch cost data. There is nothing in the middle. AWS credentials are taken from your ~/.aws/credentials and ~/.aws/config files, the same files the AWS CLI reads. In principle it works similarly to an AWS CLI command executed against the Cost Explorer API (aws ce get-cost-and-usage). For an AWS SSO profile, CloudPouch opens the AWS sign-in page in your browser and keeps the temporary credentials it receives in ~/.cloudpouch-aws-sso-client-credentials on your computer for up to 24 hours, without encryption of its own. The AWS CLI also caches its SSO sign-in token on disk, under ~/.aws/sso/cache. CloudPouch does not send your AWS cost data to our servers. See the next two points.
Your billing data is stored on your computer only, and CloudPouch does not send it to our servers. Since the AWS Cost Explorer API incurs costs, fetched data is stored and reused to save you from additional costs. Error reports you choose to send are separate: they can include AWS resource names, and CloudPouch retains them.
CloudPouch 2.0.0 sends no telemetry and no product analytics. At start, the license check sends your license key, a machine identifier and the application version, and the updater checks GitHub Releases and downloads new versions from there. An error report goes out only when you choose to send it, after you have seen what it contains. AWS requests go directly from your computer to AWS.
CloudPouch reads the same local AWS configuration as the AWS CLI. That covers static IAM user credentials in ~/.aws/credentials, AWS SSO profiles in ~/.aws/config, including shared sso-session blocks, and profiles created with aws login, which need AWS CLI 2.32.0 or newer. Profiles that use a credential_process helper, such as aws-vault, work within the limits listed in the documentation.
No. Agentic FinOps is off by default and runs only on your computer. Your assistant can read the cost and savings data CloudPouch holds locally, as far as your plan allows, and it can ask CloudPouch to refresh cost data or start a Savings Scan. It cannot modify AWS resources, expose your credentials or apply a fix. A forced refresh of cost data is billed by AWS like any Cost Explorer request.
Registered for Free or a Pro trial? Once you enter the 6-digit code from our e-mail, your license key appears in the app on its own, and a copy is sent by e-mail from hello@cloudpouch.dev, handy on a new computer. A Pro license bought directly arrives by e-mail only, so check your SPAM folder first. Already hold a paid license from an earlier version? It keeps working as Pro, with no changes. Still nothing? Write an e-mail to us at hello@cloudpouch.dev
In the email sent by Paddle.com (subject: "Welcome to CloudPouch...", from: "help@paddle.com") there is a link titled "review your subscription". Click on it and next click on "Cancel Subscription".
Full documentation is available at docs.cloudpouch.dev, with installation and getting started, the Savings Workspace, plans and limitations, AI assistant setup, privacy, step-by-step guides, all supported Cost Insights, and reference pages covering AWS permissions and troubleshooting.
CloudPouch is a desktop application available for macOS, Windows and Linux.
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Don't hesitate to contact us. We're open to your ideas. Either write an e-mail at hello@cloudpouch.dev or visit our GitHub Issues page to create a ticket.
Three steps, all on your own machine. Your AWS requests go straight to AWS, with nothing in between.
Pick the installer for macOS, Windows or Linux. On a Mac, Homebrew does the same job in one command.
Enter your e-mail address, then the 6-digit code we send you. Your license key appears in the app on its own. The 7-day Pro trial starts the moment you register, with no credit card.
Select one of your AWS profiles with the required permissions. The scan checks the supported services that have costs in the selected month.
Pro trial: 7 days, no credit card · Free basic plan, free forever
