Cloud Halo
Azure FinOps for MSPs with flat pricing
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Azure FinOps for MSPs with flat pricing
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Cloud Halo turns read-only Azure cost data into a managed FinOps workflow for MSPs & consultancies: client workspaces, routed alerts, anomaly detection, a savings ledger, and one-click white-label monthly reports. Flat pricing from £99 - never a % of spend.
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We've hired MSPs before and the FinOps piece always got murky once usage spiked mid-month. Does the flat pricing hold when a client's Azure spend suddenly doubles, or is that where the model breaks? Also wondering how you surface waste the client's own team would rather not admit to.
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@artem_fedorovich
Great question, and honestly that murkiness is exactly why we avoided percentage-of-spend pricing.
Yes, the flat price holds if Azure spend suddenly doubles mid-month. A usage spike may create more findings and more urgent recommendations, but it does not become an excuse for us to tax the spike. The only time pricing changes is if the actual scope changes, for example adding new tenants, subscriptions, or a materially different service boundary.
On the “waste nobody wants to admit to” piece: we try to make it factual, not political. Cloud Halo surfaces waste with evidence: idle resources, oversized SKUs, unattached disks, reservation gaps, anomaly trends, dev/test running out of hours, and owner/team attribution where tags allow it. We show the cost impact, confidence level, and recommended action so the conversation becomes “here’s the data and the fix,” not “who messed up?”
The goal is to make FinOps boringly transparent, especially when spend gets noisy.
Love the flat pricing model, that alone sets you apart from the usual percentage-of-spend tools. One thing that would make this even more useful for my MSP: a built-in client health score that rolls up cost trends, anomalies, and savings opportunities into one simple number I can share during quarterly reviews. Would save me from stitching that together manually each time.
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@enolo8jf
Absolutely, that is exactly the kind of MSP-facing workflow we want Cloud Halo to support.
A client health score is on our roadmap: something that rolls up spend trends, anomalies, savings opportunities, tagging hygiene, and risk signals into a simple executive-ready view. The goal is to make QBRs easier without flattening the detail your technical team still needs underneath.
Really appreciate you calling this out. MSPs should not have to stitch that story together manually every quarter.
Flat pricing is a nice change from the usual percentage models. One thing I'd love to see is a simple CSV or quickbooks export in the savings ledger so my clients' finance teams can reconcile credits without needing another login. Would save a chunk of admin each month.
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@yaarbaygn9tcl
The savings ledger is meant to be useful beyond the technical team, so CSV export makes a lot of sense. QuickBooks export is something we’ll review as well, especially for MSPs that need to hand clean reconciliation data straight to client finance teams without forcing another login.
Really appreciate the suggestion. Reducing that monthly admin burden is exactly the kind of workflow we want to support.
Being able to push the savings ledger entries straight into a partner's PSA or accounting tool like Xero or ConnectWise would save a ton of manual entry for our monthly client reviews.
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@bulemgggg
That would be a strong fit for the direction we want to take it.
It is not on the roadmap yet, but PSA and accounting integrations like Xero or ConnectWise make a lot of sense for MSPs using the savings ledger in monthly reviews. We are collecting use cases like this now, especially around where automation would remove the most admin without making the workflow heavier.
love that the pricing is flat instead of a cut of spend, honestly that alone would push me to try it over the usual %-based tools. the white-label reports sound really well thought out for MSPs too
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@metehangtcx
Really appreciate that. The flat price was a deliberate choice because the MSP relationship already has enough moving parts without a tool taking a bigger slice every time a client’s cloud bill grows.
And yes, the white-label reports are built around the real MSP workflow: quick to produce, client-ready, and easy to use in reviews without extra formatting gymnastics.