Price
You pay less than the waste it finds in a month.
Three bands set by your monthly AWS spend. Every feature in every band — nothing is held back to push you up a tier — and above $25,000 of spend the price stops moving for good.
Starter
up to $5,000 AWS spend
$39/month
0.8% of the bill at the top of this band.
No card. 14 days from your first working AWS connection.
Team
Recommendedup to $25,000 AWS spend
$79/month
0.3% of the bill at the top of this band. Where a seed-stage AWS bill usually sits.
No card. 14 days from your first working AWS connection.
Scale
above $25,000 AWS spend
$179/month
The ceiling. It does not move however large your bill gets.
No card. 14 days from your first working AWS connection.
Your band is a number you can read before you sign up. It does not move when your bill moves inside it, there is nothing metered, and if you outgrow a band we send a message — never a cutoff.
Every band gets the same product, so the honest answer to “what does the extra money buy” is not a feature. It is a smaller slice of the money the tool is looking for — the row below works it out at the cited 29% waste assumption, and it keeps shrinking in the top band because the price stops and your bill does not.
The cheapest band is not the crippled one.
The team least able to absorb a limited tool is the one paying the least, so nothing here is withheld to create upgrade pressure. The band decides your price. It decides nothing else.
- A scan every day, against the most recent day AWS has finished settling
- Slack, Microsoft Teams, Google Chat and PagerDuty — as many as you want
- One alert when an episode starts, then only if it escalates — never one a day
- Every alert carries the episode's running total, not just that day's figure
- Rightsizing findings from AWS Compute Optimizer, with the savings AWS estimates
- Three sensitivity presets, plus your own minimum-dollar floor if you want one
- Unlimited team members, 90 days of backfill, English and Spanish
Estimate
Work out whether this is worth it. It is allowed to say no.
Starts at 29%, what cloud teams estimate for their own IaaS and PaaS spend — Flexera, 2026 State of the Cloud Report. Drag it to whatever you actually believe.
- Estimated waste, per month
- $2,320
- Estimated waste, per year
- $27,840
- CostWarden Team, per year
- $948
At this bill you would be on Team — $79/month, the band for AWS spend up to $25,000 a month.
Share of that waste CostWarden costs
3.4%
Recover that much of it and the subscription has paid for itself. CostWarden does not remove waste — it reports the day a service breaks from its normal and shows which resources Compute Optimizer calls over-provisioned. Acting on it stays your call.
Arithmetic you control: bill × share, then × 12. No industry average is applied to your figures except the one shown above, which you can change.
The three bands, side by side.
Only five rows differ, and they are all about price. The features row is the whole feature list, and it is identical down every column — which is the point, so it is stated once rather than drawn as sixty ticks.
| Starter | Team · recommended | Scale | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Monthly AWS spend | up to $5,000 | $5,000 – $25,000 | above $25,000 |
| Price, monthly | $39/mo | $79/mo | $179/mo |
| A year of it, as a share of the waste at the top of the band (29% assumption) | 2.7% | 1.1% | keeps falling |
| Share of the bill at the top of the band | 0.8% | 0.3% | falls as you grow |
| Price ceiling | moves at $5,000 | moves at $25,000 | never moves |
| Everything else | Detection, rightsizing, all four delivery channels, unlimited members, 90 days of backfill, the sensitivity presets, both languages — identical on all three. | ||
Against AWS's own alerts, which are free
Turn them on regardless. What they do not do is compare a Wednesday to other Wednesdays per service, put the rightsizing fix in the same message, or land in the channel your team actually reads. If they are already working for you, do not buy this.
Against a FinOps platform
Most are quote-only and priced for a team that has somebody to run them full time. Our top band is $179 and it is a ceiling, not a starting point.
Where the price sits: the self-serve alternatives also band by your AWS spend, and the closest one runs free at the very bottom, about $30/month to $7.5k of spend and about $200/month to $20k. So it undercuts us below a few thousand dollars a month and we are cheaper above it — and $179 is our ceiling rather than another band. The quote-only platforms start well above all of this. Check the current numbers against your own bill; ours are on this page and theirs are on theirs.
Questions about the money.
Questions about the product- Why is the price based on my AWS spend?
- Because a flat price makes the smallest team subsidise the largest one. At a single price, a pre-seed startup with a $2,000 bill pays the same as a Series A with a $40,000 one. Three wide bands fix that without metering anything: your price is one of three numbers, readable in advance, and it does not move while your bill stays inside its band.
- What if I don't know which band I'm in?
- Start the trial and the dashboard will tell you — it reads your real spend within a day of connecting. Pick a band after that. Nothing is charged during the 14 days, and no card is needed to find out.
- What happens when I outgrow my band?
- We send you a message. Never a cutoff. Stopping someone’s cost alerting because their costs grew is exactly the behaviour the ceiling exists to rule out, and it would be the single worst moment to go quiet. One thing worth knowing before it happens: crossing into a band costs more as a share of your bill than sitting at the top of the one below — $179 on a bill a dollar over $25,000 is 0.7% of it, where $79 at $25,000 is 0.3%. That is inherent to bands rather than a trick, and you should read it here rather than find it on an invoice.
- What does the ceiling actually promise?
- That above $25,000 of monthly AWS spend, $179 a month is the most you will ever pay — at $30,000 of spend or at $3M. The failure mode of spend-based pricing is being charged most in the month you most need the alerting. A stated ceiling is the only structural answer to that.
- What happens at the end of the trial?
- 14 days run from your first working AWS connection. If you do not subscribe, ingestion pauses and everything already synced stays visible — subscribing later resumes where it left off rather than starting over. Nothing is deleted because you stopped paying. The one automatic deletion is an abandoned trial: no subscription ever started, nobody signed in, and 180 days elapsed. See the privacy page for the exact conditions.
- Can I cancel, and do you refund?
- Cancel from Settings → Billing at any time and the subscription runs to the end of the period you have paid for. Your data stays visible after cancellation — we stop pulling new data, we don't take away what you already had. Billing goes through Lemon Squeezy as merchant of record, so refunds follow the terms on the refunds page rather than a case-by-case conversation.
14 days, no card, your own numbers.
Connect a read-only role and the first scan runs against 90 days of your own history. If it finds nothing, that is a useful answer too.