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Varcio platform

Cloud cost control, built for how teams actually ship.

One AI-powered platform for AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, and Kubernetes. 316 detectors find the waste, 140 Apex capabilities explain it, and nothing changes without an approval.

AWS · Azure · GCP · OCI SOC 2 ready No credit card required

Integrates with your existing stack

AWSAzureGCPOCIKubernetesGitHubSlackTeamsPagerDutyJiraVS CodeTerraform
316Active waste detectors
140Apex AI capabilities
51Modules across 14 sections
5Infrastructure surfaces
8Compliance frameworks mapped

The problem

Roughly a third of cloud spend is wasted

Not because engineers are careless, but because cost data arrives weeks late, lives in four different tools, and never sits in the path of a deploy. Varcio puts visibility, governance, and remediation in one place.

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30–35%of cloud spend is wastedGartner, 2024
$7.2Bwasted annually on unused resourcesFlexera, 2024
63%say cost is their top cloud challengeHashiCorp, 2024
4–6tools teams juggle for cost visibilityCNCF FinOps Survey
Fragmented cost tooling compared with the Varcio platformOn the left, six disconnected tools each feed partial cost data to separate teams. On the right, Varcio serves engineering, finance, and leadership from a single source of truth.TODAYCloud consolesSpreadsheetsInfracostKubecostGrafanaCustom scriptsConflicting numbers · no owner · weeks behindWITH VARCIOVarcioone source of truthEngineeringFinanceLeadershipSame data · clear owner · real time
Six partial views of the same spend, versus one source of truth every team reads from.

Platform capabilities

Everything you need to run FinOps

Nine of the capabilities teams reach for first — part of 51 modules across 14 sections, from AI & Automation and Optimization to Govern and Security.

Operate

Apex AI Control Plane

A natural-language control plane wired into 140 real platform capabilities across 13 dedicated screens — not a chatbot.

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Detect

Waste Detection

316 active detectors across five surfaces, each finding costed, scored by confidence and effort, and SLA-tracked.

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Automate

Autopilot

Rule-based optimization inside your guardrails, in three modes: observe, suggest, and autopilot — within a monthly action budget.

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Automate

Workforce

A standing team of AI agent seats on a rota that watches the estate, hands work up a reporting line, and brings decisions to you.

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Prevent

CI/CD Control Tower

Cost-aware DevOps command centre linking pipelines, deployments, and pull request risk to their cost consequences.

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Monitor

Database Health

Deep operational monitoring for managed databases — connections, storage, latency, replication lag, and query performance.

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Analyze

AI Infrastructure

Dedicated cost and waste analysis for ML and GenAI workloads across SageMaker, Bedrock, Vertex AI, and Azure OpenAI.

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Allocate

Kubernetes Allocation

Container cost down to namespace, deployment, and team, with rightsizing from measured utilisation.

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Govern

Policies & Approvals

Required tags, blocked resource types, cost and risk thresholds, and a central approval queue decidable from Slack, Teams, or Apex.

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Forecast

Predictive Analytics

Three competing forecast models chosen by backtest, with honest error metrics, risk scenarios, and change-impact simulation.

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Meet Apex

Ask anything about your cloud spend. Get an answer, not a dashboard.

Apex is a capability registry, not a chatbot: 140 typed, permission-aware bindings into the platform. Reads run against live workspace data; writes are never executed directly.

  • 140 live capabilities
  • 13 dedicated screens under /apex
  • Writes never execute without explicit approval
  • Multi-provider model routing with fallback
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You

What are my top 5 cost drivers this week?

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Your top 5 cost drivers: 1. RDS Multi-AZ ($4,230 ↑12%) 2. EC2 On-Demand ($3,891 ↑8%) 3. S3 Deep Archive ($1,220 →) 4. Lambda Functions ($987 ↓3%) 5. NAT Gateway ($654 ↑22%). Total: $10,982 — up 12% from last week. NAT Gateway shows the highest growth rate.

FinOps lifecycle

One platform across the full cost lifecycle

Observe, understand, prevent, optimize, act and prove — backed by a nine-stage data lifecycle running from Connect through to Emit.

The FinOps lifecycle: plan, observe, control, optimize, and report, running as a continuous loopContinuouscost operationsPlan01Observe02Control03Optimize04Report05

Observe

Consolidated spend, trends, anomalies, and ingestion health across every provider.

Understand

Attribution, unit economics, and regression analysis — why spend moved and what it bought.

Prevent

Policies, tag governance, and PR cost review stop expensive changes before merge.

Optimize

316 detectors surface costed findings, ranked by savings, confidence, and effort.

Act & Prove

Approval-gated execution, then verified savings measured against real subsequent spend.

Platform coverage

Cloud cost optimization for AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, and Kubernetes

Five infrastructure surfaces treated as first-class citizens, with 316 active detectors running across them and against the normalised cross-cloud ledger.

How Varcio turns cloud billing data into governed actionCloud accounts connect through provider-native trust models into an ingestion and normalization layer, then into the Varcio engine, which produces pull request cost checks, waste findings, forecasts, and approval-gated remediation.SOURCESINGESTENGINEOUTCOMESAWSAssumeRoleAzureService PrincipalGCPSA JWTOCINative authKubernetesHelm agentIngestionnormalize · tagreconcile · verifyVarcioDetect wasteForecast spendEnforce policyApex AI agentPR cost checksbefore mergeWaste findings316 detectorsForecasts90-day horizonChatOps approvalsSlack / TeamsEvery write action is approval-gated and written to an immutable audit log
Every cloud connects through its own native trust model, then feeds one normalized dataset.

AWS Cost Optimization

The deepest coverage on the platform: 102 active detectors, IAM AssumeRole onboarding with an external ID, and the fullest remediation action set of any provider.

  • 102 active detectors
  • Cost Explorer, CUR via Athena, CloudWatch
  • No long-lived keys stored
AWS cost optimization

Azure Cost Management

Spend across subscriptions and resource groups with 73 active detectors, budget and policy enforcement, and rightsizing opportunities behind approval gates.

  • 73 active detectors
  • Resource Graph and Azure Monitor
  • Encrypted Service Principal secret
Azure cost management

GCP Cost Visibility

Billing export, asset inventory, monitoring signals, and Recommender output consolidated behind 59 active detectors so teams can act on GCP cost drivers faster.

  • 59 active detectors
  • Billing export and Asset Inventory
  • Encrypted service account key
GCP cost optimization

Oracle Cloud (OCI)

A first-class surface rather than an afterthought — 38 active detectors over spend and inventory, approval-gated remediation and resource parking, connected with an OCI API signing key encrypted at rest.

  • 38 active detectors
  • Spend and inventory scanning
  • Encrypted API signing key
OCI cost optimization

Kubernetes Cost Allocation

Container cost mapped to namespace, deployment, and team, with rightsizing derived from measured utilisation rather than requests alone.

  • 21 active detectors
  • Kubecost, OpenCost, native API or agent
  • Namespace and workload attribution
Kubernetes cost management

Cross-Cloud Detection

23 detectors run against the normalised ledger to catch what no single provider can see — duplicated environments and redundant workloads spanning clouds.

  • 23 cross-cloud detectors
  • Duplicated environment detection
  • Redundant workload analysis

What teams say

Trusted by engineering leaders

$3.1K/mo surfaced
“Within the first week, the AI found about $3.1K/month in unused resources our dashboards never surfaced. The PR cost analysis alone prevented a costly GPU mistake.”
Sarah Chen
VP of Platform Engineering · Series B Fintech
75% faster meetings
“We replaced CloudHealth, a custom Grafana stack, and three spreadsheets with Varcio. Our FinOps meetings went from 2 hours to 30 minutes.”
James Rodriguez
Director of Engineering · E-Commerce Scale-up
Zero incidents
“The approval-gated remediation was the killer feature for us. Engineers can act on savings without us worrying about production impact.”
Priya Mehta
SRE Lead · Healthcare Platform

Explore the platform

Go deeper on what matters to you

Every part of the platform has a dedicated page — capabilities, onboarding, ROI, security, integrations, and pricing.

Capabilities

All 51 modules across 14 sections, from AI & Automation to Govern and Security.

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How it works

The eight-step path from first login to live findings and ChatOps approvals.

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Apex AI assistant

140 capabilities across 13 screens for reporting, forecasting, triage, and approved action.

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Workforce

24 AI agent roles across seven functions, working a rota like a managed-service team.

Meet the team

ROI & alternatives

Waste benchmarks, first-year savings, and how it compares to CloudHealth and Kubecost.

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Use cases by team

Workflows for platform engineering, finance, SRE, leadership, and compliance.

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Integrations

GitHub, CI webhooks, Slack, Teams, Jira, Linear, ServiceNow, PagerDuty, Opsgenie, Terraform, CLI, VS Code, webhooks, and event buses.

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Security & compliance

Credential handling, audit trails, RBAC, protected resources, and SOC 2 readiness.

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Service Monitoring

Uptime, incidents, reliability objectives, a public status page and a labelled outage-cost estimate.

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Real User Monitoring

Core Web Vitals, errors and funnels from real visitors, with no cookies and no recordings.

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Deploy & Migration

Analyse a repository, compare clouds, generate blueprints, then assess and migrate with evidence.

Plan a deployment

AI cost management

AI Infrastructure and AI Economics: every token and dollar traced to the team that owns it.

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What’s new

The latest modules and updates across the platform.

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Pricing

Explorer, Pro, Business, and Enterprise plans with monthly and annual billing.

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FAQ

Setup time, cloud coverage, remediation safety, AI models, and evaluation questions.

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FAQ

Common questions

How long does setup take?

Connecting a cloud account is a short guided step using provider-native trust models. Costed findings appear from your first scan, and policies and integrations can be added as you go.

Is my data safe?

Yes. AWS uses IAM AssumeRole with no static access keys stored. Azure and GCP credentials are encrypted at rest, never exposed in logs or UI responses, and every write action is approval-gated with immutable audit logging.

What if auto-remediation breaks something?

Manual write operations pass policy evaluation, blast-radius assessment, and an explicit human approval before they run. Autopilot, if you turn it on, acts only inside the rules you set, sends production-like, public, critical, or deletion-protected resources to approval, and stays within a monthly action budget. Rollout-safety gates, dry-run mode, rollback, and an immutable audit entry cover every step.

Does it support AWS, Azure, GCP, OCI, and Kubernetes in one platform?

Yes — five infrastructure surfaces are treated as first-class citizens, with 316 active detectors across them: 102 on AWS, 73 on Azure, 59 on GCP, 38 on OCI, 14 on Kubernetes, plus 23 cross-cloud detectors that run against the normalised ledger.

Can I try it for free?

Yes — every new workspace gets a 14-day trial of the Business plan. No credit card is required; when the trial ends the workspace moves to Explorer unless you choose a paid plan.

Ready to eliminate cloud waste?

Join teams getting clearer control of cloud spend. Free 14-day Business trial, no credit card, costed findings from your first scan.