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Independent cloud cost evaluation

No cost
without value.

Ncost shows the evidence.
You decide what the spend is worth.

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Planned · Find with evidenceConcept · Change → Result
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No fee to start.

Early access is $0.

Pricing →No extra setup.

Start with one project and the credentials already on your machine.

How it starts →No profit from your overspend.

Independent by design.

Principles →
Preview billing · anomaliesPlanned findingsConcept verify · API
01Start small · planned

No extra setup = easy.

Try one GCP project with credentials already on your machine. No new role, key or config file.

Ncost sees only what you can see. Missing access stays locked, so you expand scope only when it is useful.

Setup
gcloud loginnothing addedready
Permissions
what you havenothing grantedwhat you see
02The first run · planned

One command.
One consent.

One command installs. One explicit yes starts a read-only scan. Missing permissions stay visible instead of becoming a false clean result.

Local Scan stays local. Connected Ncost separately keeps billing history. Change detection and cost-delta results remain concepts.

install · planned$ curl -fsSL https://ncost.sh | sh
planned cli · first runlocal only
$ curl -fsSL https://ncost.sh | sh
  ✓ installed ncost
  ✓ credentials   acme-prod

  Scan acme-prod read-only? [y/N] y

❯ ncost scan
  ✓ compute      41 resources
  ✓ disks        18 · 1 candidate
  ⚑ monitoring   locked

  estimated review total   ~$180/mo
Planned — illustrative transcript, example figures
03Evidence, not opinions

Every candidate
cites its signal.

Like a code scanner, Ncost makes each candidate traceable. Every line cites the observed signal, missing facts and coverage.

Estimates keep their tilde. Ncost changes nothing, and a scan never pretends that unknown means clean.

findings · project: acme-prodillustrative
ResourceSignalMonthlyVerdict
idle cloud sql
sql/orders-replica · us-central1
0 connections in 30 days
0 connections in 30 days~$1,120Flag
unused artifact images
artifacts/registry · 412 tags
never pulled since push
never pulled since push~$96Flag
cloud-run api
svc/api · asia-northeast1
serving live traffic
serving live traffic$412Keep
Illustrative — example figures, not customer data
~ grey — estimatedflag — review candidate, evidence attachedkeep — no improvement candidate observed
03·RThe deliverable · concept

Every scan leaves you something.

Candidates with evidence, a scoped scan with none — or an honest “inconclusive.” The report never travels without its coverage.

scan report · acme-prodillustrative
Review total~$1,216/mo2 priced · 1 unpriced
Candidates3each with evidence
Coverage87%31/41 rules verified
4 locked · 2 unverified — listed, never hidden
Concept · Illustrative — example figures, not customer data
scoped scan · acme-stagingillustrative
✓

No candidates observed

Coverage 92% · 3 locked and listed. If nothing can be verified, the report says “inconclusive.”

Concept · Illustrative — coverage travels with the result
04Pricing

Early access is $0.

No spend percentage. No cut of savings.

Early access · today$0

No tracked-spend, seat or retention cap today.

Pricing details →
Cloud read queries are billed by your provider · Ncost shows the measured amount
05Product philosophy · concept

Independent in position.
Neutral in evaluation.

Ncost does not decide what spend is worth. It shows evidence; you decide value.

Ncost owns

Cost. Candidates. Results.

Evidence and coverage stay attached.

API concept →
You keep

Your tools. Your decisions.

BI · AI agents · Jira · approvals · custom reports · ROI · unit economics

Read the principles →
Independent in position · neutral in evaluation · honest about outcomes
Bring a bill · leave with a list

Your bill
is the input.

Connect billing and only the viewers you choose. Get candidates with evidence; everything else stays visibly locked.

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