Google Cloud Cost Management vs Teevity

Google Cloud Cost Management helps organizations monitor, control, and optimize costs for Google Cloud. Its console reports and dashboards show current cost trends and forecasts. Teams can organize costs by organization, folder, project, or label, and use granular permissions to control who can spend, administer billing, or view costs. Budget thresholds can send alerts to stakeholders by email or Pub/Sub; programmatic notifications can also trigger actions to throttle resources and cap costs. Quotas help control spend rates, while recommendations address cost and usage and can be applied to realize savings. Billing usage, cost, and pricing data can be exported automatically to BigQuery. Billing APIs provide access to manage billing accounts, and the App Optimize API supplies resource cost and utilization metrics for dashboards and agents. The tools are available through web and API at no additional charge to Google Cloud customers. Customers still pay for the Google Cloud services they use, which may include BigQuery, Pub/Sub, Cloud Functions, and Cloud Storage. Google Cloud also provides free billing and payments support.

Teevity provides cloud usage analytics for AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. It brings bills from supported clouds into one dashboard and forecasts end-of-month costs. Dynamic Cost Explorer offers summary, detail, comparison, and reservations reports, while real-time classification can allocate spending to cost centers such as teams, projects, activity types, or countries. The documentation also lists global cost monitoring, cost and usage distribution, administrative automation, and financial and technical resource optimization. Integrations include Google BigQuery, Excel, Google Spreadsheet, and Dropbox. A REST API exposes features available in the web portal using JSON. Its CLI package includes a JAR and scripts for macOS, Linux, Unix, and Windows, and requires Java 8 or later. Dynamic Cost Explorer exports are currently CSV, with Time As Columns, Time As Lines, or Budget layouts. The free service includes high-level cost monitoring, a dashboard, and daily email. Paid plans listed include MSP, cloud reseller, and system integrator service from €99 a month, Enterprise Support at €399 a month, Enterprise at €999 a month, and Pro at €99,599 a month.