Cost Overview

The cost Overview is where you start. It answers the everyday question — how much are we spending, and is it going up? — before you drill into a single service or account.

In the app, it’s your provider’s dashboard — opened from Dashboards at the top of the sidebar, and the first view you land on after signing in.

Overview is available on every plan, including Free.

Headline KPIs

The top of the page shows your month-to-date spend against the previous month, so you can see at a glance whether the current period is tracking ahead or behind. Alongside the totals, Overview rolls spend up per account and per service and compares each service period-over-period.

Spend trend over time

A trend view plots spend across the period you select, so a gradual climb or a sudden step-change is easy to spot. Pair it with the movers below to go from “spend is up” to “here’s what moved.”

Top movers

Overview highlights the accounts and services whose spend changed the most versus the prior period — the biggest increases (and decreases). This is your shortlist for investigation: a service near the top of the movers list is usually where a cost anomaly or a savings opportunity is hiding.

Per-account breakdown

Spend is broken out by linked account — AWS accounts, Azure subscriptions, GCP projects, and so on — so you can see which parts of your organization are driving the total. Use it to compare environments (prod vs. dev) or business units before you decide where to dig in.

Time ranges

Choose the window you care about — the current month-to-date, a full past month, or a custom start and end date. The KPIs, trend, movers, and per-account breakdown all follow the range you pick.

Where to go next

Control how spend is counted — credits, taxes, amortization — with cost settings.
Slice the numbers your own way with the report builder.
Assign spend to teams with cost centers (paid).
Ask the same questions in plain language through the CloudQuell MCP server.