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Every cloud and AI bill. One view.

Blis Cloud & AI Cost Manager brings the costs of every cloud and AI provider you use into one open model in Elastic, next to how much you actually use.

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Built on the open FinOps standard FOCUS

Cloud · AI · month-end
Where did last month's cloud and AI budget go, and which AI provider gives you the most for it?

Why now

AI spend is now part of the bill

Is this you?

Three things we hear about cloud and AI cost

  • 01

    “Four providers, four invoice formats, no total.”

    Cloud and AI costs arrive in different shapes from different places. Nobody sees the whole bill.

  • 02

    “The AI bill went up, and nobody knows why or what it is being spent on.”

    Without usage next to cost, a spike is a mystery until the next invoice.

  • 03

    “Which AI provider is actually worth it?”

    Price per token says little. What matters is what you get for the money.

What you get

Total, split, who and why

  1. 01Total

    All your cloud and AI spend in one place, in one open data model.

  2. 02Split

    Cloud versus AI, per provider, per service, per model.

  3. 03Who

    Showback per team, workload or cost centre, from your tags and mappings.

  4. 04Why

    Cost next to usage: tokens per model, seats and active users, accepted suggestions. Spikes are flagged, and an AI agent answers questions such as “Why did our AI spend rise last week?”

Alertsto Microsoft Teams, e-mail or your service desk

Monthly cost reportin the Run service

How it works

One open model for every provider

FOCUS, the FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification, is an open standard from the FinOps Foundation. The major clouds export it natively; for AI and SaaS providers we convert their usage and cost data to the same model, so one set of dashboards works for every provider.

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Supported sources

The clouds and AI services we cover

  • Native FOCUS export

    Clouds

    • Microsoft Azure
    • Amazon Web Services
    • Google Cloud
    • Oracle Cloud Infrastructure

  • Via Blis converters

    AI and SaaS

    • Anthropic
    • OpenAI
    • GitHub Copilot
    • Azure AI Foundry

  • Ask us

    On request

    Other FOCUS-compatible providers, and new sources added with our conversion tooling, with OpenTelemetry as the base

Cost data from cloud providers arrives through their periodic billing exports. AI services bought through a cloud, for example Azure OpenAI, Amazon Bedrock or Google Vertex AI, appear in that cloud's export.

AI provider comparison

Compare AI providers on what you get, not just what you pay.

We run one fixed set of questions, your own use case, against the providers and models you consider, and score every answer on correctness, latency and cost per answer. You see which provider gives you the most for your money, for your work. Available as part of the Assess step, and repeatable in the Run service.

The result is one view per provider and model, on your work: which one answers best, how fast, and at what price per answer.

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How to start

Scan, assess, implement, run

  1. 0

    Scan

    free · 1 hour

    Which clouds and AI providers you use, who owns the cost, whether FOCUS exports are on. A short findings note.

  2. 1

    Assess

    fixed price · about two weeks

    A baseline on your own bills: total and split, top cost drivers, allocation gaps, cost per token and per seat, quick wins. Optional: an AI provider comparison on your own questions.

  3. 2

    Implement

    fixed price per size

    Exports and converters, dashboards, alerts, the AI agent and the comparison view, set up and accepted when totals match your invoices.

  4. 3

    Run

    monthly

    We keep sources and mappings current, tune alerts, explain changes and send a monthly cost report.

Deployment and data

Your Elastic or ours, never someone else's SaaS

  • Your Elastic or ours

    In the Elastic you already run, in a customer-owned Elastic Cloud deployment in the EU, or self-managed in your own environment.

  • What we process

    Billing and cost data, and usage metadata: tokens, models, seats, activity. Not your prompts or AI responses.

  • People

    User identities in seat and usage data can be pseudonymised if required, and mapped to teams.

  • Agreements

    A data processing agreement is part of Assess and Run.

Why Blis Digital

One open model, in your own Elastic

  1. 01

    One open model

    FOCUS for cloud and AI. No proprietary schema, no lock-in.

  2. 02

    In your own Elastic

    EU or in-house; no extra SaaS.

  3. 03

    Cost next to usage

    Tokens, seats, suggestions, and your observability data.

  4. 04

    AI value, measured

    Provider comparison on correctness, latency and cost per answer.

  5. 05

    Elastic Select Partner

    Blis Digital is an Elastic Select Partner.

FAQ

Questions we get asked

A pack on Elastic that brings the costs of your clouds and AI providers into one open model (FOCUS), shows cost next to usage, per team, with alerts, an AI agent and an AI provider comparison.

The FinOps Open Cost and Usage Specification, an open standard from the FinOps Foundation that gives every provider's bill the same columns. Azure, AWS, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure export it natively.

Azure, AWS, Google Cloud and Oracle Cloud Infrastructure through their FOCUS exports, and Anthropic, OpenAI, GitHub Copilot and Azure AI Foundry through our converters. Other FOCUS-compatible providers on request.

It runs on Elastic: in the Elastic you already run, a customer-owned Elastic Cloud deployment in the EU, or self-managed.

Keep it for commitments and rightsizing. We add AI providers and seats in one open model, cost next to usage, and a way to compare AI providers on value, inside your own Elastic.

No. We process billing data and usage metadata such as tokens, models and seats, not prompts or responses.

With a free one-hour scan, then a fixed-price baseline on your own bills.

Free scan

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Tell us which clouds and AI providers you use. We look at your bills, owners and exports together and give you a short findings note.

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